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didn’t mean to but I mentioned you and Dean were together.”
    “ Oh.” Ellen spun to face Dean who stood, not knowing what expression was on her face.
    “ Ellen, get dressed. Whatever you do, don’t let him catch you. He’s roused up.”
    “ Jenny I ...” BOOM! The front door to Dean’s house burst open. “Shit.” Ellen hung up the phone, dropping it.
    Frank stood in the wide -open door looking around, assessing a situation that screamed answers to him. “What the fuck, El.”
    “ Frank.” Ellen flew over to him as he charged forth.
    Dean felt lost . He didn’t know what way to turn. “Frank?” He took a deep breath.
    Ellen pressed her hands to Frank ’s chest holding him back. “You have to leave.”
    “ Fuck that. Fuck that!” His words were strong as he blared them out, “How can you do this, El? How? I thought things were happening between us. Things were happening. And you!” He spun and faced Dean. “You can’t even face me can you? I ought to nail your ass right now! You lied to me!” Frank charged toward Dean. “You lied! What was this shit you aren’t with her? What was this shit you gave me that you have no interest in her.”
    Dean turned his body as close to the point where he knew Frank ’s voice was coming from. “What the hell did you expect me to tell you, Frank? Huh? The truth? No. Because you’d screw it up for me. You always screw it up for me.”
    “ So you lied?”
    “ And I’d lie again,” Dean huffed his words. “If you didn’t walk in here, you would never know. I wouldn’t tell you. I can’t take the chance of you trying to take her from me. I can’t. And you would, whether you want Ellen or not, you would try your hardest because you can’t accept the fact, Frank, that you are no longer a part of her life. Face it.”
    Ellen saw it . She watched the red on Frank’s face growing as Dean gave his short speech. Now was not the time for Dean to take his stand. Seeing Frank charge toward an unsuspecting Dean, Ellen dove forward, intercepting Frank’s reach, and stood before Dean. “Don’t, Frank!”
    “ Move, El!”
    “ I won’t let you touch him.”
    “ I see.” Frank lifted his hands up in surrender.
    “ No you don’t see,” Ellen snapped back.
    “ I see! I see you jumping in the middle, nearly getting nailed, all to defend him.”
    “ No I jumped in the middle because he can’t see you to defend himself!”
    “ What?” Frank’s head twitched suddenly.
    “ You heard me.”
    Frank looked past her at Dean who still didn’t look his way. “Oh bullshit!”
    “ No it’s not bullshit.”
    “ You’re telling me he can’t see? Bullshit. Another lie, El, another lie to cover up that what you did was wrong.”
    “ It was not wrong,” Ellen argued. “You can’t come in here and pass judgment on me. You can’t.”
    “ How can you stand here, half dressed, and tell me you’re not wrong? What about Henry?”
    “ What about him?”
    Frank ran his hand down his face . “You live with him. He’s your primary relationship. You sleeping with Dean is not wrong?”
    “ How can it be wrong when Henry knows?”
    Crushed ! Frank felt that more so than if he had gotten hit. “Henry doesn’t know.”
    “ Henry knows,” Ellen told him. “Henry’s known for a while. I wouldn’t be here. I wouldn’t have crossed the line with Dean, if Henry didn’t know. The whole reason Henry and I got married was so I could freely be with Dean.”
    Fire raged through Frank upon hearing her tell him that . He stepped back, breathing short breaths through his nostrils. “Sorry I bothered you. Sorry I bothered your little understanding.”
    Ellen saw it in his face . She sensed it in his words, his anger, the hostility. “What are you doing, Frank?”
    Frank pointed to Dean . “He may not be able to see to defend himself but Henry sure as hell can.” Slamming his fist against the archway of the door, Frank stormed out.
    Ellen knew she didn ’t have much