Chapter 4

“Anyway, he came back here probably eight years ago now. And he brought a man with him. I never spoke to them, of course, you know, with your father, but I’d see them together at the grocery store. They looked happy.”

“Did-did Dad say things to them?”

She shook her head, smiling slightly. “He just ignored them. Pretended they didn’t exist. I’d say Danny and the other man did the same thing with your father.”

“Danny said they broke up a couple of years ago.”

“Yes, I heard. I don’t know why. I do know the other man, um, Harris was his first name, left Sutter’s Bay.”

Sooner or later most people left Sutter’s Bay, Jason mused. Yet, here he was.

“And you?” she asked. “Don’t you have a-a significant other?”

Jason sighed. “I did. He left me when I got shot. He didn’t want to deal with the aftermath.”

“Well, that’s just terrible.”

He wasn’t sure he wouldn’t have felt the same if he had been in Rick’s position. “So, what do you want for dinner?”