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.Despite what he might havetold Alex, he really did feel bad about destroying the man s car.Itmay have been a battered up sedan, but Alex had been ratherattached to it.Oh, well.He d make it up to his hero.A few fun modificationsto whatever new vehicle Alex purchased should keep his loverhappy.The office wasn t technically very far from their apartment, butit took Kevin nearly a half hour.He swore traffic grew worse on106 LOVING SOMEONE EXTRAORDINARYthe expressways every hour.Sixteen blasted lanes and the thingstill backed up.He finally parked in front of STF Lake West, pulling his carinto the last empty spot in the lot.That was really odd, too.It waslate afternoon.The office staff should have gone home for the day.The technical staff wouldn t have arrived yet.Morning people theywere not, but that was part of the beauty of working for the STF.As long as the work got done, they didn t really care when it gotdone.Besides, most of the teams weren t active until earlyevening, anyway.Kevin shoved open the glass door, the thundering beat of rockmusic slapping him in the face.He grinned and shook his head.Inside, the whole building throbbed with energy and a littlebit of insanity.He got a couple of waves as he wound his waythrough the crowded space.The middle of the conference roomhad turned into a dance floor and it was a bit disturbing.Most ofthe STF tech guys really shouldn t be allowed to dance.And Kevinwondered if someone should see if Allen was dancing or havingsome sort of epileptic seizure.The guy really looked& yeah. Kevin! Jason threw his arms into the air before descending,yanking Kevin into a tight hug. Dude! Can t breathe, Kevin gasped. Sorry.It s awesome, though, huh? Kevin rolled his eyes. What? Allen s dancing? Someone really ought to put him out of his misery.No, Imean, dude! You caught Gridenko! Alex caught Gridenko, Kevin insisted.The very last thing hewanted was for word to get out about what had really happenedthat night.Not that Kevin didn t trust his coworkers, because hedid.But the sidekicks? Gossiped worse than a bunch of little old107 LOVING SOMEONE EXTRAORDINARYladies on bingo night. Sure, sure.Whatever you say. A beer was thrust into Kevin s hands.Jason scowled andsnatched it away.The beer was almost immediately replaced witha bright, frothy drink in a disturbing shade of pink.This one,though, apparently passed muster because Jason let him keep it.Good thing, too, because Kevin could really use it.Jason slung one arm over Kevin s shoulders.Kevin took acouple of sips of his drink, wincing after each one.Damn, but thatwas strong.Half the glass and he might be joining Allen on thedance floor. Come on, Jason announced. It s party time.Because really,who cares who caught the Bastard? He s behind bars! It scelebration time! I just came to grab some files, Kevin protested. I had noidea Oh, loosen up. Cassie suddenly appeared from the midst ofthe chaos.She nudged Jason aside with her hip, her arm replacingJason s as she gave him a little half-hug. Come on.The Supersare all buried in a big meeting. While the adults are away, the children will play? Kevinstated dryly. Something like that.Although David did say I had to save hima drink. Kevin surveyed the party wryly. I don t think there s going tobe anything left. Probably not, she agreed unrepentantly. Too bad. It really is, Jason added sincerely. Get a few drinks intoMasterson and he s usually up for a quick BJ in the supply closet. Okay, I really didn t need to know that, Kevin declared.108 LOVING SOMEONE EXTRAORDINARY Look, I just need to Kevin! Kevin sighed.It really looked like he wasn t going to get out ofhere any time soon.He spent the next half hour trying to make it from the frontdoor of the office complex to his tiny cubicle halfway down theleft wing.He couldn t seem to make it.Three times, he actuallyhad his goal in sight, before someone yanked him the otherdirection.During the day, the STF operated the same as any businesswell, normally, anyway
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