Chapter 10

It was dinner time anyway, so we adjourned to the kitchen, the boys heading back to their rooms for more video games, and the three of us chatted. It was a nice conversation. Charlotte had gotten Del up to speed on me. The two started talking about women I might like until I told them to slow down. I had come out twenty-four hours earlier. I had a husband and a daughter. And I had been with one woman ever, and that was twenty years earlier.

I nodded. Charlotte turned on the light.

“That settled, let’s eat. I’ll get the boys.”

While we spoke, Charlotte was pulling together a simple pasta dish and Del tossed a salad. Del put two glasses of milk on the table in the dining area, and I put out the placemats. In the end, it was a fine meal with fine people and I got into a cab to catch the train to my hotel in White Plains.