She sat and ate her lunch, didn’t bother to rush through it, but it was Laud that was tuned into Christy’s conversation over there with her friends that even Laud thought she’d brought those humans into this restaurant on purpose.
“Why is your fiancé having lunch with his ex-wife?” one girl asked. “I don’t know any exes that get along, shouldn’t they hate each other?”
“Why does she look so young? I thought she was the same age as Anthony. Did she go and get a face lift to try and compete with you, Christy?” another snickered loudly enough for everyone in the restaurant to hear.
It was clear they were just like Christy herself, birds of a feather, she thought absently even as she heard Christy stated “Let it go, she hasn’t had any work done,” Christy half muttered.
“She’s in her 40s, ri
