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“Yeah,” I answered on a sigh. Right now, I hated that I’d told him that a while ago. She was mine and maybe I didn’t want to share.

“How the fuck am I supposed to explain that to Cal?” he asked and it was a legitimate question. One that I didn’t have a good answer for.

“You’ll figure it out.”

“Do you trust this person or whatever?”

“Yes,” I said and I meant it. “You don’t need to worry.”

“Than that’s all I need to know.” And what he didn’t say was that he trusted me. That kinda had me smiling a little on the inside.

“Things work out?” I asked because I hadn’t really had a chance to sit down and talk to him since that last conversation when I laid down my wise words.

“Yeah. Got a daughter. She’s…the most amazing thing, man. And an old lady, believe it or not. I love them.”

And the inward smile grew. I was happy for him because he fucking deserved so much more from life. I was glad he’d finally found it.

“Congratulations.”

“You’ll get there,” he said all weird like and I didn’t even want to go into it then. Or ever. I knew what kind oftherehe was talking about but I didn’t want to tell him that it wasn’t in the cards for me. That I was fine with the way things were.

It didn’t matter if I wanted to say anything else because he ended the call before I could even open my mouth. I was surprised, though I shouldn’t have been. And damn if I didn’t smile the rest of the drive.