“Well, I have to admit, I’m surprised, but I’m also glad he made his way off the path of being a dick,” I replied.
“Yeah.”
“I’m also glad he’s given you no reason to find him and hand his ass to him,” I remarked. “It’ll cut into your cookie tester duties.”
Gabe grinned and repeated, “Yeah.”
I stroked his beard and asked softly, “Feel better about that?”
“More important question, do you?”
“It’s good to know someone who did something so heinous in his youth was able figure it out and not repeat the pattern,” I noted.
“’Spect having a wife, a daughter and another one on the way might have helped him to understand that.”
“’Spect so,” I agreed. “Can we be done with him?”
“Absolutely.”
I rolled up to my toes to give him another kiss.
The timer for the cookies sounded.
Gabe moved to the fridge to grab a beer.
And I went to the oven to grab the cookies.
“He’s just so awesome.”
I turned to see what Shanti was looking at and watched Gabe strolling our way.
She was so right.
He was so awesome.
She and I were on a besties date.
And so we could tie one on, Gabe dropped us off at Trevor’s, and since (as per his instructions) I texted him that we were ready to come home, now he was back.
Unh-hunh.
Totally awesome.
I turned to Shanti where we were sitting at the bar and watched her smile into her glass before she sucked back the last sip.
She seemed okay. Back to Shanti.
Things had even been chill between her and Titus the last time we hit the man cave.
Still there was no hug at the end, but you had to give Shanti that play.
After crashing and burning with a hot guy?
Maybe she’d get that play forever.
But I had the honored role of being her sister of the heart, so I couldn’t fall down on keeping my finger on the pulse of well, where her heart was at (as well as everything else about her, sister duties were steep, but the effort was worth it).
I felt Gabe’s hand on my hip and looked to him.
