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"Can we take it slow, Ethan Blackstone?"
"I’ that as a yes And of course we can" I heard the soft brush of an exhale again A pause as if he was gathering his courage "Brynne?"
"Yes?"
"I aht now"
"I am too, Ethan"
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The club scene in London is pretty daood club craas just what I needed My poor psyche was on uilt I needed to dance and drink and laugh but et about all the shit Life was too short to dwell on the dark parts, or at least that’s what my therapist said I had an appointment with Dr Roswell tomorrow at four o’clock and a dinner date with Ethan after Our first step in the take-it-slow agreement we’d made on the phone He’d told me he wanted to lay the cards out on the table and I have to admit I liked that The truth works best forcareful about what I wanted to share And I didn’t kno uide map to help me I had to ride the wave and hope I didn’t crash into the reef and drown
"Try this It’s ey-red drink in a hurricane glass "They’re calling it an Olympic Fla it out on the dance floor with soht We’d hit three clubs so far andto put up a protest My dark purple boots looked great with my one shouldered floral dress, but three clubs in and I was ready for so back to haunt me I think" I smirked at Benny and lifted a boot
"You own like ten pairs of theed "I think they look hot You know," Ben said thoughtfully, "nude in boots would make some delicious portraits" He nodded quickly "Your body and your boots Aht it very dark and cast the boots in color You have so reen, blue, red They’ll look brilliant Just art, nothing overt" He looked at me "Will you do it, Bree?"
"Well…sure I will If you think it’ll n a release for ue out at him "My mother will have a coronary" I waited for Ben’s sarcastic co" Ben did not let e of Clarice Huntington Bennett Exley ever being rogered at any time in her life
"Hell, nobody ever said you had to have an orgasnant, and I’m pretty sure my mom only had sex the one tiht, my luv," Benny said Ben hadabout "At least she got it right and hed some more
My parents divorced when I was fourteen--probably fro and the realization that they had absolutely no interest in each other, but to be fair, they’d both stayed in the sah school My mother would hop across the pond to London when theher with eneral obnoxiousness until she’d had enough of that particular visit Her new husband, Frank, was much older than her, hted when she left San Francisco on her trips I doubt she got ot so but who the hell knew My mother and I were at odds most of the tio-to parent He called ularly and supported my choices He loved me for who I was And inthe earth I wondered what Dad would think of Ethan
Ben took off to chat up some hot blonde as a possible lay and I stayed and sipped my Olympic Flame
"Hey, lovely lady, those are souy with red hair, sporting his own pair of boots, western jeans, and a belt buckle in the shape and size of Texas loomed over my table An A into London for the Olyin
"Thank you I collect cowboy boots" I sed his eyes over ht place" He sat down next to"I’ll be your cowboy if you want," he muttered the rest under his alcohol breath, "you can ride me"
I scooted over on the seat and turned away
"What’s your name, sweetheart?"
"My name is, I’m-not-interested" I stone faced hi-you-drunk-pig"
"Now is that any way to be friendly to your A Red leaned closer and laid his ar plastered next toin my face "You don’t knohat yer ood idea" I leaned back as far as I could from him and scooted further down the seat "Do they teach you irls there like obnoxious drunks who proposition the Red did not take the hint, or rabbed"Dance withI didn’t have a chance against his tremendous , jerkingus around the dance floor His hand coveredup my skirt That’s when I picked up my boot and rammed the heel down as hard as I could on his toe
"Get your hand off my ass before your balls become pom-poms for my boots You have two balls and I have two boots--one for each" I gave hirunted atif I was serious or not and then he lish bitch," he h the crowd, off to harass some other poor person most likely