“Oh, thank God it wasn’t just me. I can’t feel my butt cheeks.”
Or his balls, but he didn’t think she’d laugh at that.
“Me neither. Among other parts of my body.”
Good for her not holding back. “The same.”
They’d both gone through the bottles of water she’d brought. She pulled her bag off her back and snagged two of her protein bars and held one out to him.
His hunger had him reaching for it.
“Do you mind if we get some more water for the walk? Not that it’s hot out, but it wouldn’t hurt to have. And I’ve got to use the bathroom.”
“Are you sure you have to or is that just the tingling from sitting so long?”
“Both,” she said, laughing, and bit into her bar.
He did the same. “I do plan on taking you to lunch. We can do it now if you want.”
“This is good. I’d like to walk some before I sit again if that’s okay with you?”
“I’m flexible. Got nowhere else to be.”
She squinted one eye. “Must be nice.”
“It actually is,” he said. “Not bragging or anything.”
“Just stating a fact. Got it. Can I ask you something?”
They crossed the street to the store and he held the door for her. “Anything,” he said.
“Do you ever get lonely?”
“All the time.”
“Why do you live like this then?”
“Let me ask you, do you ever get lonely?”
She laughed. “Yes.”
“And you’re around family. My family…I don’t like to be around them more than I have to be. Friends, it’s amazing howyou learn they aren’t genuine when you add zeroes to your name.”
“Not that I’ve got personal experience with that, but I’ve seen it with other members of my family. Even those I work for.”
“It’s not a nice feeling,” he said. “But traveling like I do, I don’t worry about it. I can go home whenever I want.”
“Back to Baltimore?”
“Yep.”
“Do you have a home there? Like a place of your own?”
“No. I stay with my grandmother. I don’t even have things in storage because I don’t have much. I bring clothes with me I need, the rest is at my grandmother’s house in my room there.”
Probably sounded sad when he said it that way.
For a man of his wealth, he should have more than bank accounts to his name.
