7
Patrick
“Are you going to explain this?” Austin asked, breezing into my office and slamming down a piece of paper onto my desk.
“Good morning to you, too.”
“You’re quitting?”
“I did plan to tell you.”
“When, dipshit? You told my girlfriend first.”
I grinned up at my best friend. “To be fair, your girlfriend is the head of HR.”
“And?”
“Legally, she has to know that I’m quitting. She’s kind of in charge of that.”
“She’s going to lord this over me forever now. You do know that, right?”
I smirked. “I might have guessed.”
“You’re an asshole.”
“Learned from the best.”
“f**k you,” Austin said. Then, he sank into the chair in front of my desk. “So…tell me what’s going on.”
“I got offered a cushy job at Tech.”
“Nice!” Austin fist-bumped me. “But I meant…what’s going on? I didn’t s
