13
DOG GUY
“How was your date?”
Leah had offered to drive to the furniture store, but even though it was her left ankle that she’d injured, Lennox still didn’t think it was a good idea for her to get behind the wheel. He’d been tempted to have Kevin—the real Kevin—arrange a town car, but that wouldn’t have fit with his fake persona. So now they were in a cab. And Lennox was perhaps the tiniest bit grouchy because Leah was enamoured with a man who wasn’t him. He held her cane while she lowered herself into the back seat, hoping the answer was, “Ugh, it was awful.”
But he just wasn’t that lucky.
“The date went well, I think.”
“You think?”
“Darius was a gentleman. Kind, attentive…”
“But?”
“But what?”
Lennox climbed into the cab beside her and slammed the door a little too hard. “It
