"Hello babe." I drove to the side of the road and parked there the moment his voice came on the speaker. "Hi, Jared. Where are you?" I inquired.

"I-I'm...I went for a meeting." He replied, I noted something in his voice but couldn't specifically say what it was.

"Are you okay? What kind of meeting? You don't have a secret company you're running, are you?"

"I'll tell you as soon as I'm back." Came his reply.

"I've missed you. You've been absent from home these past two days. By the time I woke ...