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“Not much, just a few whispers down the lane. They are keeping it close to the vest. Don’t want the news to get out.”
“Shit. I assume Jake knows?”
“Yeah, he does.”
Well, if something came up, then Jake would fill us all in. Until then, I needed to get my head back into the game. I had enough on my plate, and as the morning went on, it grew fuller. One of the class members ended up almost shooting himself in the leg at the range because he had his finger on the trigger when he went to holster a pistol. The bullet had ricocheted off the cement at his feet and into the wall next to another person’s head.
I’d almost lost my shit, and it was Harvey that calmed me down, telling me to walk away and start the paperwork. As I did, I heard Harvey’s deep voice trying to calm the person down, while at the same time being stern and admonishing him for not being safe.
I felt my phone vibrate but couldn’t care less who it was. I dug around in the file cabinet in the office for the misfire paperwork. That fucker should be the one filling this out, not me. As far as I was concerned that douchebag shouldn’t even be allowed to have a gun. He had practically failed every aspect of the training. He was going to be a handful to deal with overseas, probably wouldn’t even last a week before he was sniveling and begging to come home.
I called Jake and told him, listening to him scream in my ear for a minute, and that didn’t help my mood. Even seeing a text from Davina didn’t lift my spirits. I was just ready for the day to be over with and get home to try and sleep. Maybe Davina could come over tonight and help me out. Man, I really was going to have to find a nanny soon. Otherwise, I was never going to get a good night's sleep again.
We were almost finished with the day when Alex called. “What’s up?” I said as I rubbed my eyes.
“Just reminding you of the rehearsal tonight.”
Well, shit! “Um, yeah, what time is that?” I had honestly forgotten all about it.
He chuckled. “Figured you had forgotten. Be at the church at five-thirty. After we rehearse, we’ll go over to Fiorello’s for dinner.”
“Shit, man, I did honestly totally forget about it. I’m going to have to bring Devon with me. I don’t have a sitter tonight.”
“That’s okay; you can bring him. Nothing fancy. We’re just going to relax and enjoy dinner together.”
“Okay, you sure you don’t mind?”
“Not at all. You can ask Davina to come.”
“No, that’s okay. It will just be me and Devon.”
Alex was quiet for a moment. “You alright? Davina still coming tomorrow?”
“Yeah, I’m fine, just exhausted, and it’s been a fucked-up day.”
Alex chuckled. “So I heard. I could hear Jake screaming from the other side of the office.”
I laughed. “I’m sure you did. Okay, I’ll see you later.”
After we got out, I called Lucy and asked if she could keep him another thirty minutes. It only made sense to go home and change first, get what I needed for him, and then pick him up on the way to the rehearsal.
When I pulled up at her apartment, I wondered if I should say hello to Davina, but then I glanced at my watch and saw I was already running late. I hustled up to Lucy’s and gathered Devon and his things, quickly changing his clothes to something a little nicer than the onesie and sweatpants he was wearing. Instead, I put a fancy little shirt on him with fake dress pants that I’d found in the pile from Carol.
As I rushed out, I wasn’t paying much attention to where I was going and almost crashed into two people coming up the stairs.
“Sorry,” I mumbled to them and stepped aside for them to pass. Behind them another face came into view, and my dim world brightened slightly.
“Hey,” Davina said with a smile, and then it began to fade. “You do look like you had a hell of a day.”
“It sucked.” I glanced at my watch. “I’d love to chat, but I need to get going. The rehearsal starts in a few minutes, and I still have a twenty-minute drive.”
“You’re taking Devon to the wedding rehearsal?”
“Yeah, I forgot about it, to be honest.”
“Do you want me to watch him?”
“No, I can’t ask you to do that.” I stepped around her. “I’ll see you tomorrow, one o’clock sharp.”
