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“No.” I say.
“Cage Nightclub. 9 PM. Ask for us and they’ll show you to our table.” Flynn says as he picks up his coffee and the paper bag of pastries.
“See you tonight.” He says as they turn and leave.
Bianca chooses that moment to come back and I help her with the line as I think about their offer. I’ll never be able to take them up on it. Not that I want to, of course. Once the line is down, I take my apron off and tell Bianca I’m taking my break. I head out the back door and lean against the side of the building as I try to figure out what it was about those two guys that drew me to them.
Normally, I’m able to tune out most people. I don’t care what people think about me and I’m too busy to even think about dating or anything. I’ve even been hit on at work before and I was able to put it out of my mind almost immediately but for some reason, those two are stuck in my head. I spend the remainder of my break trying to think about anything else but their faces keep popping up in my head. Maybe I could call in sick to the cleaning company and go to that club tonight. Finally, have some fun and act my age.
My phone dings and I glance down at it to see a message from Adeline. I open it and see that Bella had her puppies and the first picture is of them curled up with their mom. The second is of Adeline cradling one in her arms with the biggest smile on her face.
Addy:8 healthy pups!
Aspen: AWWW. How cute!
Addy: I know!! We should adopt them all ??
Aspen: And keep them where?
Addy: We’d find the space
I smiledown at my phone and know she’s right. If Adeline brought home 20 dogs, we would find the room. I would do anything for that girl and I smile as I tuck my phone into my back pocket and head back inside.
Thinking about Adeline finally pushed Flynn and Roman from my thoughts and I shake my head as I think about how selfish it was to consider going to that nightclub. We need the money to pay for Adeline’s medicine. I put my apron back on as I turn back to the counter and get back to work.
TWO
Flynn
Romanand I walk out of the coffee shop, looking back at the pretty barista one last time before we slip into the backseat of our town car.
“To the office, Jack.” I say to the driver over the seat as I hand him one of the danishes.
“Thanks, sir.” He says as he turns on his blinker and merges with traffic.
I hand one of the coffee cakes to Roman as we ride in silence to work, both of us lost in our thoughts. Neither of us speaks until we pull through the shipyard gates and the car pulls into our spot by the front door to our offices.
“She’s not going to show, you know.” Roman mumbles as he opens his door and steps out.
“Oh, c’mon Rome! Don’t be so pessimistic. She was interested. You saw how she was looking at us.”
“Nope. She’s not going to be there tonight.” He says as we head up the stairs to our offices.
Roman and I own a shipping company. Our families have always been close and we grew up living next door to each other. There weren't a lot of other kids our age in our neighborhood so we spent all of our free time together. We were in the same grade in school and became inseparable from a young age. Our families were close too and when we graduated college and told them we wanted to run a shipping company they were supportive, even putting up money as an investment so we could get started.
Our offices are down by the docks and the last couple of years have been good to us. We bought this shipyard and expanded. We paid back our parents’ investments years ago and now we have more money than we know what to do with.
Now that the company is successful and Roman and I aren’t working 18-hour days, we’ve started to realize how empty our lives are with just the two of us in it. We need to find our girl and start our family.
Roman and I figured out from an early age that we liked to share women. After sleeping with women by ourselves, we talked about it and decided that we’d rather share women and so we’ve been sharing ever since.
We haven’t met the girl that we want to share for the rest of our lives yet but now that business is going so well, maybe it’s time to start really looking for her. No more of these pointless one-night stands with women that we don’t want to spend any real time with or get to know for longer than a couple of hours.
The girl from the coffee shop flashes in my mind.Aspen. There was something about her. Something different, a weird kind of energy passed between us when she looked in my eyes.
“Have faith, brother. She’ll be there.” I say to Roman as we walk into our separate offices.
We bury ourselves in work, returning emails and calls and going over deals. One of our assistants runs out and grabs lunch and I go into Roman’s office so we can eat together while we work through some final details. I try to bring up Aspen again but he shoots me down yet again.
