“Thanks.” I smiled, nodding to them as I pocketed both rings and walked back to my car. I fired up the powerful V-8 and shifted it into gear as I popped the clutch and hit the gas. The car screeched its tires as I peeled out of the parking lot, leaving some rubber on the asphalt and some smoke in the air. It wasn’t something I did often, but I wanted to send a loud and clear message to the two lovebirds.
I looked in my rearview, and the Asshole was standing there dumbfounded, still clutching his right hand gingerly.
I smirked happily as I drove towards the shop. When I got there, Kat was happy to see me, as was everyone else. They all came up and hugged me or shook my hand and told me how sorry they were. I thanked them all, and told them all to get the fuck back to work. However, I said it with a smile on my face, so they knew I appreciated their efforts to help me feel better. The thing was, I was feeling pretty damn good already. Besides the lawyer fees and half the court costs, and having to give up my half of furniture I never really liked anyway, I had just managed to pull off a Bloodless Divorce.
“C’mon, Kat.” I said. “Let’s go to lunch.” I drove us there in Bullitt, and Kat loved riding in it. She could hear the rumbling of the engine under the hood and feel the power radiate from it like an aura of awesomeness.
We ate and laughed, two old friends sharing our meal and our friendship, and a new solidifying bond of recently betrayed love.
“I still can’t believe I had absolutely no fuckin’ clue that she was cheating on me!” I hissed finally, giving voice to my own haplessness when it came to being blind as far as Maggie had been concerned. “I must have really been stupid.”
“No, Mac. You were in love. Love can blind us, ya know.” Kat smiled and reached across the table, squeezing my hand.
I smiled in spite of myself. “Thanks, Kat.” I squeezed her hand back, letting her know how much I appreciated all she did for me, professionally and personally. She was way more than my Office Manager and friend. I’d come to depend on her for a long time now. First in school when I was the little kid who was smaller than everyone else. Then as the man who wanted his business to succeed, and had hired her as the most eligible and best qualified of the bunch of applicants who had applied.
“You never have to thank me, Mac. A nice bonus at the end of the year is thanks enough.” She grinned, and I laughed outright at that.
“Consider it done.” I smiled and gazed into her dark brown eyes with my dark blue orbs.
She looked away first, and I noticed a slight flush on her caramel colored face. It took me aback, but I recovered quickly even as I felt my cock start to harden. I told myself to stop it. She’s my friend, and she had just suffered a loss too.
In all our years as friends, I had never looked at Kat that way before. Never in my life had I seen her as anything but a friend, albeit a VERY beautiful friend. Sure, I noticed the fact that she’s a VERY well put together woman, as I did the previous night at her house when I’d pulled in and she’d come outside to meet me. Hell, what red blooded American male WOULDN’T notice a gorgeous Amazon like her?