Page 181 of If You Say So

The rest of the night went a little like the first half.

Shondra rolled her eyes a lot and monopolized Theo’s time. Theo kept glancing at me

considering.

The rest of the office ladies talked back and forth with each other.

And I texted back and forth with my sister until it was time to leave.

I would’ve snuck out completely, too, had Theo not walked out at some point behind me without

me knowing it.

I was almost to my car, keys in my hand, when Theo’s dark voice stopped me.

“You’re not going to say goodbye?”

I swallowed hard and tried not to get pissed.

Instead, I waved my phone in the air and said, “Sorry, gotta return a call from my sister. Have a

good one.”

With that, I bleeped the car unlocked, got in, and tried to slam the door.

Only Theo’s hand on the door’s metal frame stopped me.

I gritted my teeth and placed the call to Katy.

“You’re never going to guess where I have my hand right now!” Katy cried out excitedly.

Thank God I had her on speakerphone so she could hear.

“Have a good one, Theo,” I said through gritted teeth.

“Hello, Katy,” Theo said.

“Oh, who’s that?” Katy said. “Hey, did you guess where I had my hand yet, Row?”

I loved my sister. I loved her to death.

“Theo,” I answered.

I wasn't sure if I was saying ‘Theo’ to Katy or to Theo, but either way, it worked on both accounts.

Theo let go of my door and stepped back, a look of surprise on his face at my anger.

I finally closed and locked it, then started it before Katy said, “Are you ever going to guess?”

“In a dead person’s rectum,” I guessed.

Katy snorted. “No, silly. Down her throat!”

I rolled my eyes heavenward.

“Damn, Katy,” I said. “That’s morbid.”

Katy was a medical examiner. She’d graduated from school and had decided that dead people

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