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husband for that long.
    Nick just couldn’t see asking her how she handled her sex life with two little girls in the house.
    “I’d like to help, if I could,” she said, all sweetness and earnestness.
    Nick frowned, thinking he could at least find out a little more about Audrey Graham to help him avoid her.
    “Well…” He hesitated. “I don’t think there’s any easy way to say this, and I really don’t want to make you uncomfortable, but…”
     
    Ahhh!
    Lily thought she was going to die of embarrassment right there on the spot.
    He knew!
    He knew she’d been practically slobbering all over him, and he wanted to talk about it?
    “Ahhh,” she whimpered.
    She didn’t mean to. Not out loud at least, but she must have, because suddenly, he looked concerned. He took her by the arm and said, “Lily? You okay?”
    “Yes,” she lied and not at all convincingly.
    “You sure?” he asked.
    “Yes. Really. Just go ahead. Tell me. It’s about—”
    “Audrey Graham,” he said, looking like it pained him to even say the name to her.
    “Oh! Audrey?” Lily smiled, so relieved she could have fallen to her knees and said a prayer of gratitude right then.
    She’d been certain he knew she’d been all but drooling over him while he moved in and then while he’d been doing yard work the other day. She was so grateful it hadn’t gotten that hot yet, and he still had his shirt on this morning.
    Him shirtless in her kitchen was probably more than she could have handled.
    “Yes, Audrey. Did you say something about her running every morning?”
    “Yes,” she said.
    Did he want to watch?
    Because the woman was certainly putting on a show.
    Her outfits got skimpier by the day. She must have gone shopping after Nick moved in.
    Someone had even said Nick and Audrey had run together the day before, and that when it was over, Audrey had followed Nick into his house. But people said a lot of things, and Lily made a policy to discount at least half of what she heard, just on principle alone, and it must have been one of the few occasions when Lily hadn’t been watching his house, because she hadn’t seen a thing.
    “Do you know where she runs? Like how far and the route she takes?” Nick asked, looking really uncomfortable with the question.
    “Not really. I’m not a runner. I mean, I see her go by our houses sometimes,” Lily said.
    More often, now that Nick moved in.
    Did that mean he hadn’t run with her the other day?
    “And…uh…I guess there’s no easy way to say this, but…if I wanted to run without…running into her?”
    “Oh,” Lily said, relieved, but puzzled.
    He wanted to avoid a woman with a body like Audrey’s?
    She didn’t think anybody who looked like him would want to avoid someone who looked like Audrey.
    “I like to run alone,” he said. “That’s all. Really. It’s just time to clear my head, and she followed me the other day and…well, she talked the whole time.”
    “Oh. Of course.” Lily nodded, gleeful at the thought of Audrey, half-dressed and nearly bouncing out of her bra and annoying Nick every step of the way.
    It shouldn’t make Lily so happy, because Audrey’s husband had walked out on her just like Lily’s had, and Lily knew how awful that was. Lily felt bad for everything Audrey had gone through, but still…She didn’t want Audrey to have Nick.
    “If you cut through my backyard on the side farthest from yours, then take the first left, then a right, it will take you out of the neighborhood the back way. From there, you might be able to run without seeing her, because I think she stays in the subdivision.”
    He grinned. “That would be great. Thanks.”
    “Sure,” she said. “Anytime.”
    He looked like there might be more he wanted to say, but then thought better of it and just put his empty glass down on the counter and said, “Well, I guess I’d better be going, finish the lawn before it gets any hotter.”
    “Okay.”
    Lily went to open the door for