"I’d met this guy Conroy when I was hiking Cannon Mountain."
El Speed interrupted. "The one you f****d on the summit?"
Crap. I’d forgotten I’d already told him about that. "Yeah, but that’s not relevant.
Ellie wanted to know, "Why not?"
"Because that’s not why I went on the hike. We weren’t—well, we weren’t together that way by the time I went on the trip." Never mind that we had been f*****g right up until a few weeks before it. "On the hike, I was just another hiker. Anyway," I looked at each of them in turn with a glance that said Let me finish, hoping they’d see that despite in the dimming light.
"Conroy knew I was feeling really shitty about myself. He said he was leading a hike to a place where there is no bridge between the physical and the spiritual, because there’s no need fo
