Incoming by A. E. Wasp

Author:A. E. Wasp [Wasp, A.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A. E. Wasp

Chapter Twenty

Since when was Wednesday night a good time to play poker with ‘the guys?’ Since when did Dmitri have ‘guys’ with which to play poker?

Since Dmitri started dating an extrovert vet-slash-bartender who worked weekends and collected ‘buddies’ the way Dmitri racked up late notices from the cable company, that’s when.

Tucked up in the big bed, alone, with just his laptop, Dmitri could hear the deep rumble of male laughter. A quick check of his personal email showed that his application to the California USDA program was still making its way through the process at typical governmental speed. He hovered over the delete button. He’d almost forgotten he applied for that job, pushing it to the back of his mind, a problem for future Dmitri to deal with. Though every new bill pushed it to the front of his awareness. Something had to change. He scowled and hit delete. He probably wouldn’t even get the offer. He wouldn’t waste any time thinking about it.

Scowling, he scrolled through a Facebook feed full of news from people he hadn’t seen since college doing things that sounded way more fun than sulking alone in bed while their hot boyfriend played games with strangers downstairs.

If he was completely honest with himself, something he hated to do, he might be just a little jealous. At least one of those guys down there, Todd, was actually a colleague of his from the lab. Dmitri had run into him and his wife and baby at Vincent’s one Wednesday night. Not a normal night for Dmitri to be at the bar, but Troy’d been working, and they hadn’t seen each other in a few days, so he’d gone to sit at the bar, nurse a beer, and grab what scraps of attention he could get from Troy.

Just like tonight.

One thing had led to another, and he was introducing Troy to Todd and Colleen and agreeing that it was good to get out of the house every now and then, and it would indeed be fun to have a poker night.

Okay. Fine. It was his fault he’d forgotten he’d volunteered his house for said poker night, due to Troy not owning any chairs at all, let alone a table. He’d had a hard day at work, none of the cancer trials that had seemed so promising the month before were behaving, the lab director had been in a mood for whatever reason, and Dmitri had accidentally shredded some paperwork he’d meant to file.

And he’d obviously missed the ‘tonight’ part of Todd’s ‘see you later tonight.’ So when he’d seen Troy’s truck in the driveway, he’d gotten all excited imaging a nice dinner, some snuggling, and maybe some hot sex to take his mind off of all of it.

Instead, he’d gotten a bucket of KFC, a peck on the cheek, and a comment from Todd on how his route to Dmitri’s house was obviously faster and he, Dmitri, should try driving down Riverside instead of Overland to get to work next time.

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