“You came up quite a bit on our trip.”
“Well, don’t sit all the way over here. Come join us. I want to get to know your new lady!”
She motioned for the waitress to bring our plates over, which probably wasn’t how they did things around here.
But no one said no to Maggie.
“Cap,” I muttered as I pulled out a chair for Krista.
“Rob, good to see you and the wife again.”
“Yeah, who would have thought I would run into you outside of work?” I snapped. “Small town.”
“Well, Knight suggested that we take a night to ourselves. You know, get out of the house and leave the kids with someone else for a change.”
So, this was Knight’s doing. Probably as a way to somehow protect myself from unknown dangers.
I took my own seat and placed my napkin on my lap. “Funny. I’m surprised you could find enough people to watch twenty kids.”
“You have twenty kids?” Krista asked in shock.
“Not that many. It’s more like…”
Cap and Maggie both looked at each other, frowning as they tried to tally it in their heads.
“Anyway,” I turned to Krista. “Should we get wine?”
“Oh, we got a whole bottle!” Maggie exclaimed, setting it down in front of me.
“Well, we need glasses?—”
She produced those as well, almost as if she knew this was how it was going to go.
“Well, isn’t that handy,” I muttered, pouring some wine for Krista and myself. “To our new life.”
Krista was about to say something, but Maggie cut in. “And to friends. Ooh, and grenades. God, I just love grenades.”
I rolled my eyes in Cap’s direction. “Is she going to do this all night?” I hissed.
“She doesn’t get out much.”
“So,” Krista interrupted. “What do you do, Maggie?”
“Oh, I help around the company.”
Cap choked on a cough.
Maggie’s eyes narrowed as she stared down her husband. “I work with Becky in the IT department with research.”
“Oh, so she works with you.”
I shook my head instantly. I stayed as far away from Maggie as possible on any given day of the week. “No, I don’t usually spend much time with her.”
“He’s a little scared of me,” Maggie smirked.
“Actually, I just prefer to stay as far away from crazy as possible.”
Maggie scoffed. “Are you going to let him talk about me like that?”