Chapter 21

Kate and I walked up to Bruce. "Didn't you say that you'd stay for two days?" She took the suitcase from Bruce and asked, "Have you eaten?" Bruce's sharp gaze landed on me with a frown. "What's she doing here?" The disdain in his voice was clear as day, and it looked as if he was about to show me to the door. "Nance is here because I invited her over," Kate said with a straight face. "Be nice." Bruce glanced at the wine on the table and deepened his frown. "Drinking again?" Clearly, he wasn't happy about it. I admitted, "Just sharing a drink with Kate." Bruce's face turned dark, and he looked as if he wanted me to explain. Kate couldn't stand it anymore and tried to smooth things over. "Come on, it's just a small slip-up at work. Is it really that big of a deal?" She thought that the tension between Bruce and I was work-related. But Bruce was very smart. He smelled a rat from just that sentence and sneered, "Now you've started to tattle, haven't you?" "I..." "Nance didn't