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Sophie nodded, damp-eyed "With you to look after her as my maid of honour?"

It was Kara’s turn to well up, and she reached for a nearby box of tissues and dragged thehed shakily "I think we can safely assu day will not turn into the fiasco that rabbed a tissue too "I thought itin Norway"

Kara slid her ainst Sophie’s in assent

"God, yes! I’d love that Maybe I can snagof my own after all"

"If you still need to You seeht now"

"Sexed up, not loved up," Kara corrected

"One has a habit of leading to the other," Sophie said

"Not for this gal," Kara said, sliding off her stool "I’ht now"

"I know… but he seeuy, that’s all"

Kara picked up the keys to the Mustang "As did Richard this time last year And we all kno that one turned out, don’t we?"

She prepared herself for the usual stabbing sensation that she always felt when she said his name Whether it was pain from her own heart or the desire to stab his she wasn’t entirely certain, but either way, it didn’t come

Fuck, she’d finally done it She’d ht out of her hair Richard hadbeen issued an ulti at the altar in the ivory dress of her drea for aexperience of her life, and it had taken a lot of tears and bottles of vodka to set her on the road to recovery

And now, finally, it would appear that she had arrived She stood stock still, her hand over her heart and her eyebrows raised towards her best friend

"Well, what do you knoas right all along The best way to get over a et under another one" She sashayed out of the kitchen, elated

At the club later that afternoon, Dylan rocked back in his swivel chair and stretched his arside him and rolled his shoulders as he closed coht was drawing closer and they’d spent the afternoon going over fine details to uarantee a seary to see how the club fared on the famed White Isle While Lucien refused to hide their raison d’etre beneath a veil of prudishness, he equally didn’t allow his clubs to be categorised as seedy They were hedonist palaces of intense pleasure for the open minded, and he was fiercely proud of the eht would create on guests and the media mattered to him very much

He opened the desk door and placed a bottle of whisky and two glasses on the top "Drink?"

"Sure," Dylan said, watching Lucien pour out two heavy-handed measures He’d come to admire the other man’s business acuether, and sensed that he was soratified that their business relationship was definitelyinto the territory of friendship too He really liked this guy