Tens POV
“We’ve been invited out for dinner tonight with a colleague of mine Tenn looked up from his laptop as his wife came into the kitchen where he was working It was past noon, and she just hauled herself out of bed after not getting home until well after midnight
already have plans with Annie Viki yawned as she went to the coffeepot. “Why didn’t you come to bed last night?”
Tell asleep on the couch.” Tenn shrugged. “No problem, III let Quinn know it’s just me.”
“Qurn? Viki looked up “You’ve never mentioned a Quinn”
“She works at the University in the Visual Arts Library We’re working on a project together.” He smiled. “We’ll be working together a lot over the next sw months, and she wanted me to meet her husband, so I figured you should meet her”
“Oh I see. Well, a little more heads up would have been nice.”
“You were out most of last night. I didn’t think you’d be going out again.” Tenn fought against the urge to roll his eyes.
“Annie has been going through a lot. She thinks Tom is cheating“Viki sipped her coffee.
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“Huh, well, she wants to find out, I know a great PI Tenn went back to his email. He was trying to contact several friends who worked in various
artistic mediums
“You do?” Tenn watched from under his lashes as Viki tensed up.” Why do you know a P17”
Because he’s an old friend.” Tenn explained, enjoying her discomfort. “He doesn’t charge that much for unfaithful spouses. His wife cheated on him, so he despises them. Sometimes, he’ll even do it for free. Tell Annie to get in touch with me, and 111 give her his number.”
“Yeah let her know.” Viki left the kitchen, and Tenn watched her go. He couldn’t wait for tonight.
A few hours later, Tenn was playing a video game in his gaming room/office when Viki came in looking sulky. “Annie had to cancel. So I guess I’ll go to dinner with you.”
“Oh, okay.” Tenn frowned as he paused the game. “Let me text Quinn to let her know,” He sent the text and snorted at her almost immediate response. shaking his head with a smile.
“How long have you known this person?” Viki raised her eyebrow as she watched him.
got a drink together, talked
“Met her yesterday. She contacted me to see if I’d be a guest speaker at a series of lectures she’s putting together. We got a about it, and I offered to help her with it.”
“You offered?”
“Yeah, I liked the idea.” Tenn nodded as he unpaused the game and went through the save process.
“So what time did you get home last night?”
“What does that matter? You didn’t get home until after midnight, and I was home before you.” Tenn closed his laptop. “There’s gonna be lots of late nights with her. We’re working on this after hours.” He stood up and stretched. “Be ready to go for five–thirty”
“And if I have a problem with you being out late like that?”
“Get over it?” Tenn raised his eyebrow. 1 had to.” Viki started to say something, but Tenn walked out of the room. He was ready to burn this marriage to the ground.
Quinn’s POV
Quinn was making a garlic cheese loaf to go with her homemade spaghetti sauce and meatballs when Joel came in, sniffing appreciatively. “Hey Habe, what are you doing?”
“Making spaghetti and meatballs with a garlic loaf and Caesar Salad for dinner. We have guests coming.” Quinn smiled at him over her shoulder, a feat she could only accomplish by thinking about putting a fork in his eye. He hadn’t come home until midnight but had crawled into bed and cuddled her, murmuring he loved her and was sorry he was out so late. She pretended to be asleep, and when he started to snore, she slipped out of bed and slept in the spare room
“Oh. I wish you had told me earlier, it’s poker night with the guys” Joel smiled apologetically
“Don’t worry about it. Il text Tenn and tell him he doesn’t have to bring his wife now.
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Who Teen? Joel’s smile immediately disappeared.
Art Historian at the Museum of Fine Arts who is helping me with my visual arts series. I originally just wanted him as a speaker, but after met him for a drink yesterday he offered to help me with it” She smiled happily A cute Art Historian, she amended in her head, that I am looking forward. to spending a lot of time with
Why wouldnt be bring his wife?” Joel asked
“Well if you’re not gonna be here, then we’ll just turn it into a meeting for the two of us. We’re going to be working very closely and outside of our regular hours for the next six months, and we wanted you guys to know who were going to be spending our time with.” She shrugged. “You know, keep everything transparent
Right Well, I guess I can skip poker night then”
“No insist Go” She patted his shoulder as she walked by “It’ll be boring for you” She smiled faintly as he sputtered.
“No, I’m supposed to show you I’m serious about the relationship, remember? This is important to you, so I’ll stay home. Just let me text Harry to let hom know” Joel pulled out his phone and began to type.
“Okay, Joel, thank you” Quinn’s phone chimed a few minutes later, and she picked it up quickly grinning when she saw the text from Tenn.
Viki was going out for a girl’s night until a few minutes ago. She said her friend cancelled.”
Funny, Joel just cancelled his poker night when I said you’d be coming over alone”
“Who are you testing?” Joel interrupted. Quinn looked up to see him frowning as he watched her.
“Tenn” She clicked the button to lock her phone and put it in her pocket. He was just confirming the address”
that time will they be here?”
“Six Could you run to the liquor store and pick up a couple of bottles of wine, please?” Quinn turned her back and rolled her eyes. He was such a hypocrite, jealous about Tenn but fucking another woman. It was going to take a lot of willpower to do this, but she needed to make sure she had her ducks in a row before she blew everything up
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