Erik
“Wait, wait, wait, what?” Eugene stared at me from across the table, and I sighed as I picked up my wine glass and took a sip. This was the first time in weeks I had gotten a free moment.
“You heard me,”
“Surely you cannot be serious,” he said. “I mean, after you told Mom and Dad the truth…but this cannot be serious,”
“It is. Apparently,” I sighed again as I set my glass down. “Nothing has happened between us. Nothing at all, but she’s like…I don’t even know how to describe it,”
“Wait, is that why Lousie resigned?” he asked, and I nodded. It wasn’t long after the dinner that Lousie resigned. She refused to answer any of my calls and whenever I asked Maureen about Lousie, she shut down. It didn’t matter though.
“Maureen is blackmailing me,”
“For more money?”
“Exactly,” I said
