didn’t drive last night.”
“Okay. I’ll take you home.”
As they walked out the front door into the morning sunshine, a photographer, who had been sitting on the concrete wall bordering the building, jumped up and snapped a couple of photos before Alex could react.
“Oh, God,” Julie said. “Now Dad will find out for sure.”
“Maybe you should just tell him yourself.”
Julie, too miserable to be aware of anything except her own situation, slumped into the passenger seat of Alex’s truck and never even asked why he was driving it instead of his Navigator.
“You want to stop and have some breakfast on the way?” Alex asked.
Julie shook her head. “I’m not hungry. Just pull into the drive through at the first Starbucks you see and get me a giant latte, okay?”
It was eleven-thirty before he finally dropped Julie at the house. She insisted he let her out at the foot of the drive so no one would see him. “They expected me to spend the night at Phoebe’s,” she said.
“Like I said, if I were you, I’d tell them the truth.”
She nodded, leaned over and kissed his cheek. “Thanks, bro,” she whispered.
“I’ll call you later.”
“Okay.”
He watched until she disappeared around the bend of the driveway, then took off.
It was only as he was driving back to Jansen that he remembered he hadn’t called P.J. as he’d said he would. He flipped open his cell phone, ready to make the call, then wondered what he was going to say. Could he afford to tell her the whole truth?
Damn, he hated this subterfuge. Above all, he wished they could be completely honest with one another.
Soon, he thought. If things between them continued to go well in the next few weeks, he should be able to tell her the truth about himself by Thanksgiving.
And with luck, they might even be married by Christmas.
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