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Chris nodded. “You still have those guys working with you?”
“Nah, they scattered weeks ago. I might be able to get one of them back, but it will take some convincing. I can probably handle smaller jobs on my own for a while.”
“Do you need a loan? No interest, obviously. Just until you’re back on your feet.”
The offer made Anthony’s eyes sting. He wasn’t sure if it was because Chris was back being a friend, or because the offer sounded like something he might need to take to keep a roof over his head.
“I’m okay for now,” he said. “But thank you for offering.”
“No problem. Is the divorce even final?”
“Almost. We signed a lot of papers. Now we just need final court approval.”
“Have you split everything evenly?”
Anthony shifted in his seat. “Not exactly.”
“What do you mean?”
“She’s getting pretty much everything.”
Chris’s eyes grew big. “Why the hell is she getting so much?”
“I did her wrong. She didn’t deserve any of that.”
“Yeah, but still.”
“It’s fine, really.”
Chris nodded but was clearly not convinced. “You’ve worked hard to buy that house. Remember we had to do that intervention to make you ease up on work?”
Anthony rolled his eyes. “That wasn’t an intervention, just you guys getting riled up after I fainted. Anyway, it didn’t feel right to fight her.”
“Listen, just think about that. I can take the case for you.”
Anthony watched him closely. “You’d do that?”
Chris shrugged. “Yeah, why not?”
Then why didn’t you offer to help sooner?He had been dying for Chris to offer help, even though his field of expertise was corporate finance.
“Thanks for offering,” Anthony said after a long pause, “but I want to leave it behind me. I need a fresh start.”
“Yeah, I hear you, but you need to take it easy on yourself. Not like you’ve actually cheated on her, right?”
Anthony nodded. “I never fooled around.” Although he had wanted to, badly. Growing up in a religious family, he always looked at marriage as a binding agreement until the day he died.
“And after you broke up with her, did you make up for lost time?” Chris asked with a wink.
“You mean if I partied like a horny teen with every gay man I could find? Nope, I did not. I did hook up with a couple of guys, but we didn’t go all the way because I didn’t like talking to them.”
“I don’t think you’re supposed to fuck their vocabulary.”
Anthony laughed. “Yeah, I know.”
“How come you’ve only tried with a couple of guys? You’re a free man, and you’re hot.”
Anthony smiled awkwardly. Hearing someone like Chris commenting on his looks sent a heatwave across his body. “You know I’m not much into clubbing, and I was never good with apps; everything there feels dirty and purposeless.”
