He looked away.
“How long?”
I kept staring until he finally sighed.
“Okay. It’s been more than a few minutes.”
“How long?”
He hesitated.
“Most days? Maybe an hour and a half. Sometimes two.”
I could barely process it.
“A few weeks.”
“For how long, Johnny?”
“A few weeks.”
“A few weeks?”
He gave a helpless shrug.
“I’m already tired after work. What’s the point of both of us being stressed? I figured you were handling it.”
That was the part that got me.
He said nothing.
Not even the lying.
The logic.
“You figured I was handling it?”