Chapitre 27: Chapter 27

“It’s okay. I’m happy working my hours and then go home here and cook for Joslyn and me. We have a good life, a calm, quiet life.”

Mason nodded, not wanting to scratch on anything that wasn’t his business.

“Oh, don’t look so sad. I’m serious, I’m happy.”

Mason nodded again. “Joslyn doesn’t have a boyfriend?”

“Nah, she was married for a short while.” Something hard took over Otho’s eyes. “It didn’t work out.”

He shouldn’t say anything, shouldn’t ask, shouldn’t…“But what if she meets someone new? What will you do then?”

Otho frowned at him. “You mean who will I cook for then? Hopefully both of them.”

Mason smiled. It wasn’t what he’d meant, but he wouldn’t point out to Otho that his life sounded lonely, especially not when Mason had tried to cure lonely by being in a relationship with someone like Joel.

“I need to drive into Northfield to the grocery store. Do you want to come?” Otho looked at him over the rim of his coffee cup.