Chapter 67: Innocent

NOLAN

He deleted Gina’s texts without reading them and called her again the next day.

“Nolan.” Her greeting was a little more cautious this time.

“Just stop,” Nolan replied. “Stop with the texting. I don’t want to have to block your number.”

“Then just meet up with me, please,” Gina said.

“I have absolutely no interest in doing that.”

“Well, maybe you should do it anyway,” she argued stupidly.

“I am trying to make something very clear to you,” Nolan said, keeping his voice even. “Do not contact me. You are embarrassing yourself, trying to interfere in my marriage.”

Gina was quiet. For a second Nolan thought she might have hung up.

But then she said, with a cold tone of voice, “So you do love her, don’t you.”

Nolan wrung his face in his hands. He was starting to remember something he wished he had not let slip his mind.

It was impossible to win an argument against Gina. She was like a badger. Tiny but vicious,