I slowed down so she wouldn’t notice.

She noticed anyway and pushed the second half toward me.

“I’m not very hungry,” she said.

It was the kind of lie I recognized because I had told it often enough.

After work, Karen asked me to meet her in the lobby of the office building where Gregory’s former company had been based.

She had an errand nearby and thought it would be easier than coming back to my apartment.

The old sign had been replaced.