"You're welcome. I'm sure it isn't easy losing someone you love."
"I didn't love him, Chance. I was his caretaker longer than I was his girlfriend if that makes sense."
It doesn't make any sense because I didn't think Keegan needed a caretaker. He seemed to be taking care of himself every night just fine.
"A caretaker, huh?" I question.
"He was sick for years."
"I had no idea," I tell her, keeping my focus away from her face.
He kept secrets like no one's business, I guess.
"Luke, could I bother you for another drink, please?" she calls over to him, holding up her empty glass.
I catch the unsettled look in Luke's eyes, but then he goes about his business.
"Whatever. What's done is done, right?" August mumbles.
I wouldn't be saying that just a week after a man died, but I'm not one to judge the stages of grief, I guess.
I finish my burger just as August receives hers. "Do you put anything on this or just pray your teeth don't break?"
"Ketchup if you must, and you do need to pray," I tell her, snorting a laugh.
I pass the ketchup down in case she would like to add it on, which she does.
"Okay, here goes nothing."
August takes a giant bite out of the burger. The burger makes her face look tiny in comparison. She tries to be neat about it, rushing a napkin up to her mouth following the bite.
"ErmIgod," she mumbles through the mouthful. I don't know if that's a good reaction or a bad one. She chews up the bite for a minute then swallows it. "That was the best dry burger I've ever had."
"You eat dry burgers often?"
"Nope, never, but this is good."
"Hmm, thought so."
"Don't be so cocky, Chance Miller. It's just a burger."
Luke places down her new drink. "How is everything?"
"Fantastic," she says.
"Good, let me know if I can get you anything else."
"Did you know this guy here; he's a burger consewer?"
"Consewer?" I ask.
"Yeah, a consewer," she repeats.
"Conosuir, you mean?" I correct her pronunciation without thinking through the consequences.
"Do you like to embarrass women, Chance?"
Dear God. I can't win with this one. I knew that was coming.
