“There you are,” he said. “I woke up and the bed was cold. Where’d you go?”
“Ice machine.”
The lie came out before I could stop it.
It was probably the first lie I had ever told him.
He raised an eyebrow.
“You went to the ice machine in a robe with no ice bucket?”
“I forgot the bucket.”
“Uh-huh.”
I laughed.
