Retrosexual (Frisky Beavers Book 0) by Booth Ainsley & Haller Sadie

Author:Booth, Ainsley & Haller, Sadie [Booth, Ainsley]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Booth Haller Books
Published: 2017-09-21T04:00:00+00:00

8

Stew

The return to work is a brutal, unforgiving return to reality.

Gavin has decided to stay in Vancouver all week, which pisses me off because work is piling up. We’re all working longer days since his work day out west doesn’t end until well after dark in Ottawa. Whenever he wants to get his head sorted out straight and get his ass back here, that will make me happy. Until then, I do the best I can.

Ellie is working like mad on a communications strategy around donors and fundraising. I like what she comes up with, and I tell her as much. She’s done a lot under harsh constraints, because I don’t want her to give any hint of Gavin’s new direction to the party activists planning his next event.

By Friday, Gavin signs off on the plan, too, and even better, he decides to come back to the capital.

Finally.

The relief I feel is so palpable, I’m sure he can sense it across the country.

I send the entire office an email ordering them to go home to their families, friends, roommates, cats, or house plants.

I don’t care where they go, I just don’t want anyone to stay late.

I know I’m not going to be at work after six. It might be the last chance any of us have for a few weeks to have a bit of a personal life, and my family—my wife especially—deserves me to seize that opportunity.

My entire day is oriented around getting out the door at quarter to six.

I manage to leave at five to the hour.

It’ll have to be good enough.

When I get home, the twins are skateboarding in the dead-end at the bottom of our street. I wave to them and head inside, where I find my oldest and my wife in a silent standoff of sorts in the kitchen.

I give Adrienne a look to ask, what’s going on?

She just shrugs.

I take a deep breath. “What’s for dinner?”

Adrienne points to the fridge. “Steaks are ready to go on the grill. I’ve got the potatoes almost ready, too. And a salad.”

“Your favourite,” Daniel says sullenly from behind his cell phone.

I sit on the bar stool next to him and nab the device from his hands.

“Hey!”

“Hey, what?” I keep my voice light.

“I was using that.”

“I could tell. Whatever you were doing, it can wait a minute. Look at me.”

It takes him a while, but his eyes finally flick up to meet my gaze. “What?”

He thinks he’s going to get in trouble, when really, it’s me that needs a talking to. “I’m sorry I’ve been missing a lot of dinners.”

He shrugs. “Whatever.”

“No. Not whatever. It’s not ideal. But it’s also not permanent, and I’d appreciate you not making your mom’s life that much harder just because I’m being an ass—”

“Okay, who wants to set the table?” Adrienne calls out, her voice unnecessarily loud.

Daniel cracks a smile and winks at me. “Don’t say ass in front of Mom, she doesn’t like it,” he whispers.

“Right,” I whisper back. “I forgot.”

He swivels off his stool and yanks open the cutlery drawer.

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