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Our future was unknown, but at that moment, I had everything.
Epilogue
A couple of weeks later
Duke
“You’re late,” Savage stated as I slid into the booth across from him.
“Figured your hand would be up some chick’s skirt to pass the time while you waited for me,” I quipped.
Savage took a drink of beer from his half-empty pint glass. “I was giving you five more minutes before I made a move on the blonde.”
“Which one?” I asked.
“That one.” He gestured with his chin to the bar, but then waved his hand toward the pool tables. “Or that one. Not like it matters much. They’re all the fucking same anyway.”
He stared morosely at the table, his fingers drumming on the scarred wood.
“Shots?” I asked.
“Yeah, might as well.”
“Let’s make it bourbon,” I suggested. “Or will that light your fighting fuse?”
“Fight or fuck.” He sighed. “It’s all the same to me.”
I got up and went to the bar and made small talk with the new bartender at Shelly’s. While I waited for her to pour the drinks, I turned to look at Savage. A woman had approached the table, but he hardly spared her any attention, and after a moment she left.
Very un-Savage of him.
“How’s married life,” Savage asked when I returned to the table.
I set the drinks down and sat. “You don’t want to hear about married life.”
“Nah, not really.” He grasped his shot glass. “But is it different?”
“Different? What do you mean?”
“I mean, it’s Willa. She’s your wife now. That’s kinda weird…”
“For you, maybe. Not for me.”
We raised our shots in silent toast and downed them.
“So, it’s not gonna change everything, right?” he asked.
“Change everything, how?”
“Well, you’re a husband and shit. A family man.”
“So that means, what? She’s gonna bitch at me to take out the trash? Yell at me for leaving my dirty clothes on the floor?”
He shrugged. “I don’t know. Maybe.”
“Okay, what the fuck is up with you?” I demanded. “You’re being a surly dickhead tonight. Are you having an existential crisis or something?”
“I don’t know, man. It’s fucked up. It’s a mood. It’ll pass.” He shook his head and then downed the rest of his beer. “So, level with me. Married life. All it’s cracked up to be?”
