"What? You mean the meet and greet with my parents?" "Hmmph. How'd it go?" Claudia sat down and spread a napkin on her lap. She took a sip of her iced tea, "Just exactly as you'd imagine. Mom wept and Dad was stoic." "Are you glad they came?" "I guess so. It would be pretty shitty of them not to come, wouldn't it?" Lee opened a pack of sweetener and dumped it into his coffee. "My wife didn't come." Claudia felt a stab of regret for her words, but then she remembered. "You mean your ex-wife, right? I thought you were divorced." "We are legally divorced. She's still my wife." "Isn't she remarried?" "Doesn't matter. She's my wife." "She obviously doesn't think so." Lee stirred the sweetener into his coffee and tapped the spoon on the rim. "Doesn't matter what she thinks. What matters is what is. She's my wife. Will be until we're dead. Will be in heaven." Claudia was interested in this. "What about the guy she thinks she's married to right now? What's he? Isn't he her husband?" "He is the man with whom she is committing adultery, as far as I'm concerned.
