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Caroline_DM_Panhandle_TXMarch 23 at 4:27pm
@Greg_DM_Central_TXhave you started house-hunting yet?
Greg_DM_Central_TXMarch 23 at 4:22pm
Fuck off, it’s been less than 24 hours since I mentioned it to Craig. I am NOT nesting.
Shane_DM_Southeast_TXMarch 23 at 4:23pm
Hey, @Reno_NOTtheDM_South_TXare you experiencing any nesting symptoms?
Reno_NOTtheDM_South_TXMarch 23 at 4:58pm
No, and thank fuck for that.
Shane_DM_Southeast_TXMarch 23 at 5:03pm
[Replying toReno_NOTtheDM_South_TX] Maybe your future mate is the DM you’ve been waiting for. Oooh, what if they’re too young for you right now and you have to wait for them to graduate college or something?
Reno_NOTtheDM_South_TXMarch 23 at 5:06pm
[GIF of Stephen Colbert saying “You can go fuck yourself”]
CHAPTER 3
CAL
Steveand I took the rest of the day off, delegating our meetings and urgent tasks to Aurelia and Kurt. We had tacos for lunch, then we bought some beer and went back to my place to make plans. Steve’s husband Baz worked from home, and we didn’t want to disturb him.
We were documenting what we needed to do or put in place before we could leave Rogues Gallery when our friend Felix called me.
I’d met Felix through Steve—they used to work together at the tech call center. Steve wasn’t the only one who’d moved on from that job. Felix had become a certified pet massage therapist, helping animals who’d been injured or who had arthritis or whatever.
He’d been the one to introduce me and Steve to Cole Washburn, which directly led to us creating Rogues Gallery. Steve, Felix, and I tried to get together at least every couple of weeks.
“Hey, Felix!”
“Uh, hi? What’s with the cheerful voice? Did something good happen?”
Okay, I’d own that. My default communication mode was sarcasm.
“Steve and I took the afternoon off to discuss a hush hush project.” I looked over at Steve with a raised eyebrow, and he nodded, pointing at my phone and then the floor. I said to Felix, “Are you free? You want to come over to my place and hear about it?”
“Heck, yeah! I just got done with my last client. I’ll be there in twenty minutes or so.”
“Cool. We have beer.”
After I hung up with Felix, I told Steve, “We really need to let Cole know what we’re planning.” As our original investor, and our friend, he’d be hurt if he found out after everyone else at Rogues Gallery.
Steve nodded. “Let’s call him now.”
Cole never failed to surprise me. After Steve and I got him on speakerphone and told him we were planning to leave Rogues Gallery and go off on our own, he said, “Finally! I’ve been wondering if you were working on something in secret. I never expected you to stay at RG this long.”
Steve slapped his forehead, and I said, “I wish you’d said something earlier. We’ve been bored and going through the motions for a while now, but neither of us wanted to leave the other one behind.”
Cole chuckled. “Idiots,” he said fondly. “And of course I want first dibs on investing in your new project.”
Steve and I grinned at each other. “When we know what it is, you’ll know what it is,” he promised.
