Damon "Vanessa's house is finished already?" I asked Hank when he came into the office. Hank glanced over at me and smirked. My relationship with Vanessa wasn't a secret, so his reaction didn't surprise me. "It's funny to me," he remarked. I frowned at his actual response. I hadn't been expecting that. "What do you mean by that?" I questioned curiously. "I thought the two of you were close..." he didn't continue, and I tried to shrug it off. I didn't want to get into it with him or anyone else. "I'm just saying...you don't need to explain anything to me. I was just...being an ass," Hank said, but before I could react, he hurried off to the whiteboard. Hank had just given me the perfect out, but I felt like I needed to explain. Not only that, but maybe I had been lying to myself. I d