“He’s a nice guy,” Diana said. “He knew it was his own fault that Lola divorced him. He tried to work things out with her, but by then she was sleeping with the PI and wouldn’t have taken him back even if she could have trusted him again, and she said she couldn’t. He didn’t argue at all about the alimony. It’s for Elias, and Jaime loves his kid.”
I nodded. “Well, I don’t expect I’ll have much to do with Mendoza after this. The case is closed and he’s moving on to the next dead body. One that won’t have anything to do with me.”
“Don’t worry about it,” Diana said. “I know where to find him. Maybe I’ll just invite him to lunch and tell him myself, to make sure I don’t miss the look on his face.”
But then I would miss the look on his face.
Then again, considering his feelings about the PI profession, maybe that wasn’t such a bad thing.
She leaned back and smiled. “You know, I’m proud of you, Gina. When you first called me and told me about David, I wasn’t sure you were going to make it through this. But look at you now!”
Yes, look at me now. I had a new car, a new penthouse, an almost new wardrobe, new friends, and a soon-to-be new business...
“I’ve come a long way,” I said, channeling that old Virginia Slims commercial. You’ve come a long way, baby!
Diana would probably remember it. She was older than me.
She grinned. “Let’s drink to that.”
“Let’s.” I lifted my water and she lifted her cocktail and we toasted.
And drank to that.
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DITCHING DAVID
Fidelity Investigations Case #1
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