YES! DADDIES: A HOT COMPILATION OF SHORT STORIES
“Okay, fine. I fucked up the play call. Had to improvise. That touchdown was like sixty percent panic, forty percent muscle memory.”
“So you got lucky,” Sloane says.
“I prefer ‘tactically flexible.’”
“You made luck look like genius.”
“That’s kind of my whole career.”
They’re both laughing now, and I realize I’m having more fun than I’ve had in months. No handlers, no cameras, no performance. Just three people eating pasta and giving each other shit.
When the check comes, Sloane tries to pay her third.
“Absolutely not,” I say.
“We agreed—”
“We agreed you wouldn’t let me buy you dinner as a source. But you’re not treating me as a source anymore, are you?”