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any way. We’re actually doing better than most. I’m just being cautious.”
    “Mr. Prepared, that’s you.” He laughed and then looked up at me. “So, Felicia?”
    “Yes?”
    A grin broke across his face. “I know it’s early, but thanks. She sounds like a dream on the phone.”
    “You called her?” I asked.
    “Last night. I asked her to go with me this weekend.”
    “Abigail said she was a redhead and a kindergarten teacher.”
    “What else could you want in a woman?”
    “I’m glad I could help out.”
    He leaned back in the booth. “Tell me about your Abby.”
    Your Abby, he called her.
    My Abby.
    I cleared my throat. “She’s a beautiful, intelligent woman who cooks a mean steak.”
    “She’s already cooked for you?” Jackson watched me with a curious look in his eye. “Serious?”
    And sucked me off twice. Serious.
    My cock twitched just thinking about it, and I shifted in my seat. “As serious as it can be after one weekend.”
    The waiter brought my grilled chicken salad and Jackson’s hamburger. I put my napkin in my lap and looked up to Jackson. He
     was staring at me with an odd look in his eyes.
    “Fuckin’ A, man.”
    “Something wrong with your burger?” It looked good from where I sat, but you never knew.
    “Dude,” he said simply, like he knew something I should.
    “What?”
    He looked at me again, then shook his head. “Never mind.”
    I frowned and started eating. Jackson didn’t normally get weird on me. Maybe he’d gotten hit in the head too many times at
     the game the day before.
    On Thursday afternoon, I left the office earlier than normal and told Sara on my way out not to expect me on Friday. Her jaw
     dropped slightly, but she recovered quickly and simply nodded.
    I spent part of Friday morning walking around my grounds with Apollo, trying to decide what I wanted planted come spring.
     It was too late to plant tulips, but my gardener had suggested lilies. I’d been hesitant, afraid the exotic-looking flower
     wouldn’t match my more muted plants. On the walk, however, I grew energized thinking about the night to come. Muted was boring.
     My garden needed more of the exotic. Just like how collaring Abigail had brought the exotic into my life.
    She hadn’t called me and, as much as I wanted to check up on her, I held back. I didn’t want to overwhelm her, and I wanted
     to give her time to reconsider.
    I heard a car pull up the circular drive around two o’clock, and I walked to the front of the house. Todd and Elaina must
     have arrived. Apollo hung back behind me.
    “Nathaniel,” Elaina said, rushing forward to hug me. “How are you?”
    “Good, Elaina,” I said. “Thanks.”
    Todd held a garment bag and a box of shoes. “Nathaniel,” he said, smiling.
    “Hey, Todd.” I took the bag and box. “I assume these are for me?”
    “Sure, man,” he said. “Silver’s your color.”
    Fuck. Elaina told him.
    “I’ve heard it does wonders for your skin tone,” he said.
    Elaina punched him on the arm. “Be nice.”
    “Come on in,” I said, walking inside, ignoring the skin tone comment.
    I hung the bag in the coat closet. I would take it up to Abigail’s room later. We walked into the kitchen and sat down at
     the table. I tried to push from my mind that in a few hours, Abigail and I would be sitting here. And that shortly after that,
     we’d go upstairs—
    “So,” Elaina said, interrupting my thoughts. “What are you doing at home today?”
    I got up and poured us all a glass of tea. “I’m taking the day off.”
    “You don’t take days off,” Todd said.
    “Sure I do.” I set their glasses down. “I took New Year’s Day off. I took Christmas off.” I wrinkled my forehead like I was
     in deep thought. “And I’m quite positive I took Thanksgiving off. Day after, too, now that I think about it.”
    I put the tea pitcher back in the refrigerator.
    “You know what I mean,” Todd said.
    I shrugged my shoulders. “I just wanted to take