While I had been sitting beside him at dinner listening to him complain about money.
He had been paying for another woman’s apartment.
I looked at Rachel again.
“Are you his girlfriend?”
Her eyes widened.
“No.”
Nathan immediately said:
“No.”
They answered at exactly the same time.
That somehow made it worse.
I crossed my arms.
“Then what are you?”
Rachel looked at Nathan.
He wouldn’t look at her.
Finally she whispered:
“I thought he was leaving you.”
The words hit me harder than I expected.
Nathan stepped forward.
“That’s not true.”
Rachel’s face hardened.
“You told me that your marriage was over.”
“I said we were having problems.”
“You said you were going to divorce her.”
“I never said that.”
“You did.”
Margaret suddenly spoke.
“Rachel, you need to leave.”
Rachel turned toward her.
“You knew too?”
Margaret went silent.
Rachel looked at me.
“I didn’t know he was still pretending everything was normal.”
