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Chapter One
Grace Love stared at the telephone she’d just hung up and blew out a sigh Fridays were usually her favorite day of the week, but today was sliding downhill faster than Shaun White at the X-Games Chaz Stanhope’s second annual Halloween bash was togest night of the year in Sale, un a record turnout What would all those people think if the owner of Love Will Find A Way ain
Terrible PR Especially when she and Serena were hoping to add Chaz to their elite list of male clients
She slumped forward to rest her forehead on the s scent of lerandrand her eyes at the bittersweet et a grip Showing up to a party without a date wasn’t the end of the world If Gram was here, ould she have said? Probably, “Fuck ‘eht with a half-smile She’d been a real pistol, all the way up to the very day cancer had taken her Her last words to Grace were feebly whispered
“Don’t even think about visiting to some bourbon with you, for chrissake”
“Hey, what’s shakin’?”
Grace lifted her head Her best friend and partner, Serena Elliott, stood draped in the doorway, looking every bit the trust-fund brat she was, decked in head to toe Lanvin, capped off by over-sized sunglasses which she pulled off now to stare harder at Grace
“Oh shit This can’t be good Desk-sniffing on a Friday? What gives?”
Leave it to Serena to pick today of all days to actually get back fro when she said she would She ran on what Grace privately thought of as “Serena Tiular People Tiht and fished around for a so at thewith Rafferty?”
Serena stalked forward on her stilettos and sank into the crè desk She leaned forward and poked an accusing, scarlet-tipped finger at her “Don’t bullshiton?”
Grace bit back a groan and lifted her head Serena was a lot of things—bossy, spoiled, perpetually tardy and high reat instincts and could read people almost as well as Grace herself, which was the reason she’d brought her on as a partner in the first place It was one of her best qualities, but that didn’t stop it fro a secret with Serena around She’d caught the scent ofher way to the bottom of it
“Seth cancelled” Despite the fact that her friend would never judge her for it, Grace’s cheeks burned with humiliation Years of constant reassurances from Victor, her ex-fiancé, that no one else would want her were hard to erase even now, ht old feelings bubbling to the surface
“Motherfucker”
Grace’s lips twitched Bloodline of a princess,to love about Serena Not to ested they break into Seth’s house and replace his shampoo with hair re the car around in three seconds flat Forget hide the bodies Serena was the type of friend that would plant the horse head and do the ork
Note to self: Stop watching all those mafia movies
Besides, there was no need for any of that No one was getting whacked today She and Seth had only been dating for a feeeks, and even though it was a serious bu to have someone to escort her to the hippest party in tohen she searched for so pride, she ca Not exactly the adjectives a girl hopes use when describing her boyfriend
“Seriously, I’ to talk, and we’re finally getting things popping with the business I was hoping to get some face time with Chaz and add hile ladies that will be there It’s a veritable cornucopia of new business Froot to look pretty bad that neither of us have dates to this thing, you know? We’rethat we never seem to have men in our lives”
“Speak for yourself,” Serena snorted “I have a man in my life pretty much every weekend”
Grace pursed her lips and shook her head “Not what I meant I mean a special man”
“What do you mean by special? Derek has a nine inch—”