Chapter 20
“There have been others. They come, they go. I like working with a small team.”
“All right. What’s the question?”
“Have you ever had sex with a man?”
“That was to the point.” Ben shook his head, replying succinctly, “No.”
“Talk about to the point,” Zach replied with a brief grin.
“Why elaborate?”
“No reason, I suppose. Before you got married—”
“Damn it, I already told you. I was so deep in the closet I had convinced myself my interest in men was some teenage stage I had gone through. Everyone gets a crush on someone of the same sex when they’re in high school, or so I’d heard.”
“But it didn’t end there,” Zach said softly.
“I thought it had, but I was lying to myself. Then I met Anne, she’s my ex. She was desperate to get away from her father; I took advantage that to convince her to marry me. We tried hard to make it work and most of the time it did until the end. To the best of my abilities I was a good husband.”
“Did she know? Never mind, you’ve already said no one did.”