The day started out innocently enough. Or, well, not innocently. Nothing between Kat and I had been innocent. In retrospect, I should have figured out something was about to happen. Maybe I was thinking with my little head. It was hard not to. And coupled with the fact that work had been busy, I wasn't as sharp as I'd normally be to notice something looming on the horizon.

It was spring, and things with our affair had been humming along smoothly. Kat and I played two or three times a week. We had taken a weekend trip to Austin together a few weeks earlier, which preceded a particularly busy time...