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It had taken Marcus two years to realize that he didn’t actually love her
He’d si switched fro beat to a slower melody and rhythm as Marcus resurfaced from his dark memories He had planned to pick up Jill for Chase and Chloe’s engageone alone What an idiot he’d been, waiting two years for Jill tofor her to be "ready" to commit all the way to him and the life he envisioned for them
Marcus knew love existed He’d seen it between his ave Chloe, in every touch between his brother and his new fiancée
Still, that didn’t ood long break from emotion hat he needed From his plans One day he still hoped he’d find a woood ht now--or for the foreseeable future
Tonight, he was only in it for pleasure For a long night of mindless, emotionless sex with someone who didn’t want to know his hopes, his dreams A woman who didn’t want to know about his family any more than he wanted to know about hers
Hell, if neither of them even learned each other’s naround against each other in the dark space where sweat and alcohol and sex were all coether Marcusthe dance floor and scanned the croith a clinical eye
Nicola Harding stood in theof her penthouse suite looking down on San Francisco’s Union Square and watched the people walking below
She was young and single She should be out there with thelitzy restaurant, surrounded by people ere flattering her and trying toto make her like them But she’d learned the hard way that it wasn’t her they were interested in
Nicola Harding, who liked Monopoly and building sand castles, was an inconsequential nobody They all wanted a piece of Nico They wanted to say they’d hung out with a pop star They wanted to take pictures of her on their cell phones to text to their friends
She stepped away froe suite
It was too big for one person, but her record label thought putting her up in a place like this for a video shoot and concert was treating her right No one would ever kno alone she felt, one small person in an oversized suite that could have housed her entire family with rooer reading her press, she certainly would never coirl would be closer Because, soraphed with another fa and turn on her co her way through not only the Top 40 charts, but through Hollywood, too