10-1: A Novel by K. Sato

Author:K. Sato [Sato, K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: K. Sato
Published: 2023-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

We end up at a nearby Mexican restaurant. Gio sits next to me in the booth and we munch on chips and salsa side by side. “I like your place. Good that you have your own garage,” he tells me.

“It’s pricey. I can’t stay there past my year lease, but I needed a yard for Radar.” Gio nods his understanding, his knee touching mine. “I was afraid if I got an apartment it’d be depressing, going from a house with great neighbors and trails to a place full of young people, no one permanent, big concrete parking lot,” I swirl a chip around in the bowl of salsa. Divorce was bad, but having to downgrade my life was the blow I didn’t see coming. I was more attached to my life with Brett than I was to him. Isn’t that awful? “Where do you live?”

“I have a condo east of downtown. It’s small but the location is great, in my district and close to my offices.”

“You have more than one office?”

The server arrives with our plates. As we dig in Gio explains his numerous positions. The guy has like 5 jobs outside of council. He’s the policy director of an advocacy group, policy analyst of something else, executive vice chair of I stopped listening, board advisor of just nodding along. I hate careers I can’t even understand. I always wanna ask: so what do you do all day at your job? I’ll go first. I sell used houses for a living and I’m not even good at it. See how easy?

To top it off, he consults for people. Like he’s expert enough at whatever he does that people pay him to advise them how to do whatever it is. I feel so inferior, like I did in council when everyone was elbowing for position and making funny quips or hip references I didn’t get. My heart sinks. I have nothing to offer Gio besides the physical. No career, freshly cheated on and divorced. A boatload of inferior to all that fancy crap he listed off. “You’re so quiet,” he says, sliding his arm around my neck, tickling my collarbone with his fingers. That’s because I have nothing to talk to you about. He leans in close and brushes my cheek with his nose and I lean right back, opening my neck again because I can’t not. I’d frigging climb into his lap right now if my ego wasn’t still smarting from his insane resume. I really need to throw up some warning flags before I tumble way too far into this thing.

“I’m only a realtor. I still have my license but I haven’t found a new brokerage and don’t know if I will,” I babble nervous self negativity with Gio’s mouth under my ear and my hands wandering his body.

His voice is soft. “You mentioned that last night.” Oh right, when I was blathering away at poor Kara, shortly before Gio broke up with her. Her night was

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