Free Anchor Line by Dawne Walters

right now okay?” She lifted a finger and waived it around at Addie. “Nobody goes after my Dom without me getting all up in her face.”
                  “Well, let me be more direct. Get your fucking finger out of my face, before I shove it up your ass. I’m not in your scene, I don’t want to be in your scene. Okay? We are having lunch. A lunch that he picked me up for. I didn’t ask him. Okay.” Addie secured the strap to her purse on her shoulder a little more.
                  “Well then it won’t bother you that I was with him last night at the Messo.” Lisa said haughtily.
                  Addie walked to the bathroom door and turned around smiling. “I...don’t give a flying fuck.” Smiling, she walked out.
                  Well, that was certainly un-nerving. Not the way she’d envisioned her lunch hour going. Looking around, Addie saw a few guys that worked with her father in a nearby booth and decided that she couldn’t stomach any more of this bullshit.
                  First Lieutenant James was a good guy and had flirted shamelessly with Addie on several occasions when she’d gone to see her dad or when there was a function they both attended. He’d said that if she needed anything, to let him know, he felt that he owed her father a debt that he could never repay because of the tutelage and friendship Sergeant Major Marshall extended him. She hatched a plan and was ready to execute. She’d piss Conrad off, but at this point, having his subbie groupies come after her in the ladies bathroom, she didn’t give a shit.
     
                  “Hey Addie. What’s up darlin?” Tony’s Texan drawl was usually really sexy. But she wasn’t feeling it right now.
                  “Tony, could you do me a favor and take me back to work. I’m not feeling really well.”
                  “You okay honey?” He asked, nodding over to Conrad’s with his chin. “Isn’t he going to mind?”
                  “Um. No. He’s waiting for a few friends.” She didn’t look back at Conrad. She was just hoping that Tony would help her before Conrad turned around and saw her walk out with him. “I didn’t want to inconvenience him. I don’t want to inconvenience you either....but...”
                  “That’s okay darlin. Come on.” He had an inkling of what was going on. He’d seen the blonde girl approach the table and then go into the ladies room after Addie. She was watching them from her table now. He got up from the table, shook hands with a few of his friends, slid his beret on and took her hand and walked out the door to his car.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    Chapter Seven
                                “Well, well, well.” Lisa stood by the table again.
                  Conrad looked up a little annoyed that she was trying to take advantage again.
                  “What do you want Lisa?” Conrad asked a bit annoyed now. He set down his menu.
                  “Oh nothing. Just thought I’d come and keep you company since your lunch date decided to ditch you. Where did you find her anyway? Ew.” She slid into Addie’s seat and looked down, turning the pages of the menu.
                  “She went to the latrine.”
                  “No she didn't.”
                  She looked out the window hoping that she gave Addie time to get in the car with that Lieutenant that she’d approached. Thinking that this was her opportunity, Lisa, had walked over and slid into the seat across from him hoping to get more face time. No one could pin Conrad Renner down. And from talking to Susan, this Addie person, was the same girl that she’d described to her. The same one that Conrad was out to lunch with before. Why was she getting so much face