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Sure, I’ll do that

’Cause it’s just starting out great so far

I’ain just so we’re clear For me, work truhts Saturday is club night Guy night Hook-up-with-gorgeous-girls-and-screw-their-brains-out night Despite ainst Kate for Anderson, e It is sacred

What? Do you wantinsane? All work and no play ht I meet a brunette divorcee at a bar called Rendezvous I’ve foundtoward brunettes for the last couple weeks

You don’t need to be Sight Divorced woer--a lot of buried frustration--which never fails to translate into a good, long, hard fuck It’s exactly what I’ for and just what I need

But, for soy

It’s like I’d asked the waitress for a beer, and she brought me a soda Like I ate a sandhat I really wanted was a nice juicy steak I’m full But far from satisfied

At the time, I don’t knohy I feel like that But I bet you do, don’t you?

To do my job properly, I need books--lots of theulations involved in what I do are detailed and change frequently

Luckily for me, my firm has the most extensive collection of pertinent reference materials in the city Well, except for maybe the city library But have you seen that place? It’s like a frigging castle It takes forever to find out where so should be, and when you do, it’s most likely checked out already My firm’s private library is much more convenient

So, Tuesday afternoon, I’ with one of the aforerace me with her presence?

Yep--the lovely Kate Brooks She is looking particularly delicious today

Her voice is hesitant "Hey, Dreas looking for this year’s Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets, and it’s not in the library Do you have it by any chance?" She bites her lip in the adorable way she does whenever she’s nervous

The book in question is actually sitting right on my desk And I’er person--and give it to her

But you don’t really think I’ from our past conversations?

"Yeah, I do have it, actually," I tell her

She sreat When do you think you’ll be finished with it?"

I look to the ceiling, seeht "Not sure Four… down at me

Can you tell she’s annoyed?

I knohat you’re thinking If I want to eventually--after the whole Anderson thing is over--do the horizontal tango with Kate, why don’t I try being just a little bit nicer to her? And you’re right That doesisn’t over yet And as I’ve said before--this, loves-off, I’ll-knock-you-down-even-if-you-are-a-girl war

You wouldn’t give a bullet to a sniper who’s got his gun aimed at your forehead, would you?

Plus, Kate is too dary for ain, just for my oisted pleasure I look her up and down appreciatively as I speak, before giving her ainst

Kate, of course, not being one of those woures

"Well, I suppose if you ask nicely…and throw in a shoulder rub while you’re at it…I ive it to you now"

The truth is, I would never dee for so scu like that isn’t one of them

But that last comment could definitely be construed as flat-out, old-school sexual harassment And if Kate ever told my father I’d said that to her? Jesus H Christ, he would fire me faster than you could say, "Up shit creek without a paddle" Then he’done high fucking tightrope here Yet, though the possibility exists, I’m 999 percent sure that Kate won’t rat me out She’s too much like me She wants to win She wants to beat me And she wants to do it all on her own

She puts her hands on her hips and opens her mouth to rip into me--uess I lean back with an a the explosion…that never comes

She tilts her head to the side, closes her mouth, and says, "You knohat? Never mind"

And with that, she walks out the door

Huh

Kind of anticliht so too

Wait for it

A few hours later, I’ for an enor and the International Credit and Capital Markets All of Harry Potter would fit into one chapter of this sucker I scan the stacks for where it should be--but it’s not there