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Show •46 "You might change your mind," Jacob said. Carlo shook his head. "No. If I ever did my wife and I would have to live in separate places, because nobody can live with women." He rolled an apple around on the table with one finger. "Why did you bring her along? It could have been like old times. Just us three; it wasn't perfect but it was something." "I like her a lot," I said. "She's pretty," Jacob said. "In fact I think I'm in love. Only I don't know what she and I are going to do about it. The situation between us is sort of screwed up." "Can she hear us through the pipe now?" Jacob said. "No, she went back to sleep. If I'd known how you felt I'd have left her in L.A.," I told Carlo. He stared at his apple. "If you're sure you're going to get married that makes her family, so you were right to bring her. " "I'm not sure. In fact right now I think I won't. We'll probably split up." "Give yourselves time to think," Jacob said. "Sometimes I get so damn mad at that girl I want to take her by the ears and bang her head against the wall," I said. "When she starts acting like she knows everything." We all heard her footsteps on the stairs at the same |
