“Can I help you with something?”
The woman licked her lower lip and took a small, cautious step toward me.
“My name is Lisa. Herman, and I… we with him…”
And at that moment I stopped breathing. She couldn’t shock me more even if she’d slapped me in the face on the spot. It must be the very Lisa he’d been hiding from me. My heart was about to jump out of my chest.
“Apparently Herman didn’t tell you about me?” she said, looking around.
“We need to talk.”
— “About what?”
— “About Herman. I understand that you live with him. But I…”
“Get the hell out of here,” a man’s voice growled.
Herman appeared as if out of nowhere.
“I just wanted…”
“I don’t care what you wanted. If you don’t get out in the next second, I’ll drag you out of here by force!”