He wasn’t making any long-term commitment to either her or her son, which meant the boy’s issues weren’t his business. He sure as hell had no right to judge her decisions.But damn, the itch to know more about these two people didn’t go away. It was just there, a constant irritation that got more and more insistent until it was rubbing itself raw like a saddle sore. What would drive a woman like her to change her life so drastically? Given the limited formal education she had admitted to, he couldn’t imagine she’d ever expected to turn her back on the public schools and educate her own kid. And the move over here, so far from her parents as well as her ex, not to mention from malls and movie theaters, fast-food restaurants and friends, indicated motivation that had to go deeper than feeling Mark wasn’t being adequately protected at school.He resisted the impulse to scratch that itch during the next week, though. For one thing, he didn’t want to endanger a relationship that was coming to mean too much to him.
