"Pipe down over there, you dog! This is my girlfriend we're talking about here!" Then he turned back to me with a quasi-serious expression. "Okay, you...tell me ... do I really wanna hear it? Is it going to drive me insane?"I pondered it for a moment, and that's when I realized things had fundamentally changed between us. J.T. really wasn't in the forefront of my thoughts any longer. It made for an oddly ironic situation because had I still felt like I was really 'with' him, I would have also. Alex glanced towards the television that was burbling on in the background as it had been for the whole time that he and his fellow senior executive director were enjoying the pleasures of one another's luxuriant flesh and stomach bulges that was the inevitable penalty of too many business lunches. The news story was about the stand-off in the Korean peninsula between the belligerent North and the ever conciliatory South."Your people?" asked Alex, who was somewhat puzzled by Tabitha's. My pragmatic side kept saying this was such a bad idea. Aside from him, I knew no one in the Bay Area, but our times together would be much more frequent and without all the disruption of taking time away from work. I could fly out to be with family during the holidays, but even these days with my siblings and their families in other parts of the country, those occasions when we all got together in one place at the same were becoming fewer and farther in between. I supposed I could fly out to. "What a cute ass," She whispered to herself, forgetting for a moment her mother's presence.She was sure her mother hadn't heard her, she was busy watching him walk away too."I'd like to fuck him."Katie's mouth dropped open at her mother's statement."Mother!" She said in shock.Then they both laughed.They were still both laughing as they drove away from the cafe. Katie couldn't remember the last time she saw her mother in this good a mood. It had been a long and vicious divorce, Tess had spent.