He holds up his hands in dramatic gesture as he takes a step back. “Easy, ice queen. I was just being nice.”
I don’t answer him but I hear him mumble the word “bitch” as I pass. I will never understand how some men are allowed to live on the same planet as men like Blaze. I keep my mouth shut and go back to my desk and focus on packing up. There’s not much I have to take with me, but there are some forms I need to fill out, and that’s going to take me some time.
When lunch time rolls around, I get a text from Blaze saying he’ll see me at three and that he packed food in my bag for me. I smile as I open it up and see the sandwich he must have slipped in there earlier before he bent me over in the kitchen.
Thoughts of making love to him flitter through my mind and I spend my lunch hour fantasizing about what I’m going to do to him when we’re alone together. When I brought up the fact that we weren’t using protection the other night he just smiled and then he kissed me, which turned into making love on the couch in the living room. I think he’s not so secretly trying to get me pregnant, and I don’t mind one bit. From the moment I met Blaze it felt like I could finally begin my life, and what better way to do that than make a family?
As I fill out paperwork and clear out files on my computer I dream about our future. One with babies and laughter, and all the things I never thought possible all wrapped into one. It’s not until my phone vibrates with a text from Blaze that I see it’s almost time to go. I’m so thankful that I made it through this last day almost completely unscathed and I can’t get out of this building fast enough.
I grab my box and scoop up my purse as I walk to the front. The receptionist doesn’t look up from her computer as I walk by her and out the front door. I breathe a sigh of relief when no one stops me or makes any effort to start more crap before I can escape. But when I walk outside and see five fire trucks lining the building I nearly drop the box in my hand.
Just then I hear the sound of alarms going off from inside the building and I turn to see where it’s coming from. I take a step back from the glass doors as more alarms go off and then I see the sprinkler system come on. I gasp as yet more sirens blare from inside and then I see blue foam shooting from the ceiling.
“Oh my God,” I whisper to myself just before I hear the sounds of shouting and people running toward the door.
One by one people rush out of the building covered in blue foam and soaked from head to toe. Out of the corner of my eye I see the firemen standing by with hoses to spray people off as they exit the office. In what I can only describe as a parade of poetic justice, a line of those cruel women flood the parking lot covered in blue dye and wet foam. Laughter bubbles up from inside me as I watch them screaming and waving their hands as the firemen have to hose them down.
And just when I couldn’t be any happier, Mike comes stumbling out of the building with his pants around his ankles and waving his hands like he can’t see. I gasp when I look down and see what I have to assume is a micro penis, because something that small doesn’t belong on a body that big.
Tasha rushes out after him with her dress halfway undone and screaming at the top of her lungs. That’s all it takes for me to lose total control and drop my box on the ground as I double over laughing.
“You bitch,” I hear her say, but I’m too busy laughing to care. “You did this!”
She stomps her foot like a child and I shake my head. “God, I wish I would have.”
At this point she realizes Mike’s pants are down, because everyone has turned to look and laugh. She tries to help him get them up as a firehose is directed at them but it’s too late, his secret it out.
Now this is a going away party.
Just as I have the thought I’m scooped up off the ground by Blaze. He winks at me as someone else grabs my box and carries it over to the firetruck.
“You planned this?” I say, and he shrugs, not answering me. “How long have you been planning this?”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” he says noncommittally. “Monthly tests on these buildings are mandatory.”
“You know I love you, right?” I say as he places me on the passenger seat facing him and moves between my legs.
“I do,” he says, pulling something out of his pocket and then sliding it on my finger. “That’s better.”
I gasp as I look down at the rock on my finger and then back at him. “Is this…?” I don’t even know how to finish that sentence.
“Damn right it is.” He leans in and kisses me sweetly. “You’re my everything, Rosabelle. Wife is just another part of that.”
Tears well in my eyes and I don’t know if I could be happier. “Let’s get out of here.”
“If you’re good I’ll let you use the horn.” He winks at me as he buckles me up.
“I think I can find a way to talk you into it.” I lick my lips and he growls low.
“Just you wait, little unicorn. You’re mine now.”
“Forever,” I say, and he nods in agreement.
“Forever.”
Epilogue
