Free Three of Spades by W. Ferraro

to find Dylan in his office while Jorge Tanner was using Dylan’s office to make a phone call.
    “What do you mean?” Dylan asked, as he reclined on the sofa with his feet on the small coffee table and folded his hands on top of his head.
    “That! Is exactly what I mean,” Seth said, pointing to Dylan’s relaxed disposition. For the past six weeks, Dylan had walked around with a larger than usual chip on his shoulder. There wasn’t anything Seth would not do for Dylan, but even he had kept his distance due to Dylan barking.
    “What are we talking about?” Wes asked, as he too entered Seth’s office with a set of blue prints in his hand. He walked over and sat at the other end of the couch where Dylan was and looked back and forth between his two best friends.
    Seth leaned back against his large desk and folded his arms over his massive chest. He indicated with his head toward Dylan while saying, “Him. If I didn’t know better, I would say the son of a bitch is actually happy. He hasn’t thrown his phone against a wall or driven over anybody that I know of. So I’m trying to figure what could have possibly happened to make him do a 180° attitude change.”
    Just then, a voluptuous brunette entered and said, “Well, obviously, it’s a woman.”
    “Hey Honey! What brings you here?” Seth said, as he opened his arms and engulfed his wife, not caring that he wore his feelings on his sleeve. He gave her a thoroughly inappropriate kiss for public viewing.
    As she stood enclosed in her husband’s arms, Mae Finn felt every ounce of love and lust as she did the moment she met this man. Even though it was only a handful of months ago, she knew she found the man she was destined for. Together, they created a love and marriage that anyone who knew them was envious of.
    “Oh, I dropped Aidan’s lunch off to him because he forgot it this morning. I had a little time to kill before my shift starts, so, I thought I would come and see the sexiest man alive. However, Lady Luck must like me because there’s not just one sexy man, I have three. I may even start to drool,” Mae said, as she stood up on tiptoes and kissed her husband again. She then turned, still in his grasp, and faced two men who had come to mean so much to her, not just friends, but family.
    “Any chance you brought lunch for me, too?” Dylan asked, as he looked toward the madly in love couple.
    “Afraid not, but you should eat something. You do tend to get crabby when you don’t eat,” Mae answered sassily.
    Unable to hold in his laughter, Wes chuckled and winked toward Mae.
    “So honestly, what gives D?” Seth asked, as he tried to keep his hands from exploring his wife’s delectable body.
    “Nothing! Can’t a man just be happy? And as far as the cell phone goes, it slipped out of my hand and hit the wall,” Dylan said, as he tried to play off that momentary lack of control.
    “Slipped out of your hand, huh? Wow that was pretty impressive, ten feet away was the wall. You’re lucky it wasn’t that magazine pretty face of yours,” Seth said sarcastically.
    “Now now, boys, play nice,” Mae said, in mocking need to keep the peace.
    Watching as Dylan did seem more relaxed and less edgy than as of late, Wes wondered if it had to do with the mystery woman from the other night. But rather than ask in front of Seth and Mae, he opted to make his inquiry in privacy later.
    After a few more minutes of chit chat, Mae said she needed to head over to Hamden General. She walked over and kissed Wes who engulfed her in a hug and then over to Dylan, who shamelessly pulled her down onto his lap and begged her to run away with him. After a quick pucker, she climbed off Dylan and walked over to Seth. Who would not be outdone by anyone when it came to his wife; he grabbed Mae and quickly dipped her low. He gave her a lingering kiss that silently promised, later, he would mark his territory with pure virility in the privacy of their bedroom.
    With a quick