The Driving Force to Love (MXM) ✔

Chapter 17

A/N: This chapter contains mature content. I will indicate where it starts with ------------------------ and indicate where it ends with ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ so if you want to skip this section you can.

Antonio Angel Hernandez Sanchez

Jose walked into my office right when I shut down my computer. "Where are you in a rush to?" he asked. "Rosa wanted me to invite you and Liz over for dinner."

"Sorry," I said. "Can't tonight. You need to give us more warning."

"You two got big plans?" He gave me that look that indicated he thought my wife and I were going to have sex all night long.

"She's hanging out with Sarah," I said. "And I'm going fishing with one of my friends."

"Which friend?" he asked as I stood up. My computer screen had now gone black. "Maybe a group of us can go together."

"You don't know him," I said.

"I don't know him? The only friends I don't know are the ones that never last long. I don't know why you keep trying to meet new friends.. You've already got a good set of friends." The 'friends' he never met were past boyfriends.

"I've got a good set of employees," I said. "But no one wants to hang out with the boss after work hours."

"Okay, but you and Liz also belong to that fancy country club. You've got friends from there."

"I've got rich acquaintances I occasionally go golfing with. That isn't the same."

"Are you going night fishing? You usually prefer early morning fishing."

"I do, but instead of getting up at 3 or 4 in the morning to drive there, we're just camping out tonight." Most of that was true. We weren't camping out though. I was going to Dean's place. He said there was a good fishing spot not too far from his little town. So I was going to spend the night at his place and then we would go early in the morning. Part of me wanted something to happen between us at his place tonight. Like sex. But a greater part of me knew I had to hold myself back. I still needed to get more in shape first. The more I thought about it, the more I wished I had more self control at the picnic and hadn't let him put his hand directly on my fat belly. At least, he hadn't seen it.

"So who is this friend and why can't a group of us go together?"

My brother was too nosey. He always had been. There had been a few times he had almost caught me being intimate with past boyfriends. Those incidents grew less when I got married as I could just tell him I was getting intimate with my wife and he'd back off.

"He's the mechanic I hired over the winter."

"Since when are you friends with him and I thought you didn't hang out with your employees."

"He's not working for me anymore," I said. "And we have a lot in common. We can ride our motorcycles together, go fishing, talk shop."

"You could ride motorcycles with me," he said and I realized what he really needed. It had been awhile since I had hung out with him.

"Can Rosa make dinner tomorrow night instead?" I asked. "Liz and I can come then."

He nodded. "I think she'll be fine with that."

"And how about Sunday I take you golfing."

He smiled and I knew I was right when I guessed he just needed some brother time. "Sounds good," he said. We walked out of the store together and parted ways at our cars.