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"Da hand down the skirt of , I’d decided to dress up, too As te as it had been to wear basic black, I had reached for the bright blue dress in the back of o to wear to a dinner that Harris insisted I attend with his parents I probably weighed five pounds less then so it hugged ht, it would be hard to fade into the background in the peacock blue

I had vowed that the Georgia ia she would accept and toleratebe nowhere in evidence tonight

"Annnnnie, looking hot!" The guy who opened the door for us was familiar from the last kink club His hair was shaved on one side and the other side of his scalp sported long, slicked-back hair He wore glossy pink lip gloss a shade close to my own

He pressed a quick kiss to each of our cheeks "Well, bitches What do you think?" He ers

"Beautiful," Iin awe

"Yeah, I thought you were bullshitting about hosting this month in a twelve-bedroom mansion, but I stand corrected, Andy"

"I always deliver No ies in a room the size of h the grand foyer, our heels clicking over the tiles

I ad on the walls Classical music piped in froinormous vase of fresh-cut flowers "Andy, is this your place?" I asked

He ss to a friend I have connections" He plucked up tineglasses and thrust them at us

I nodded e space No loudas people nified A dozen people lasses

Annie spotted her guy al in"

Suddenly alone, I stood near the grand piano, fingers playing with the steht was about freedo to meet the expectations that had been drilled into h it was suht it added to the aht and shadows throughout the roouy slipped upstairs, presu to one of theaway A fewthe room with another couple

"Hello, I don’t think we’ve uy who stopped before irlfriend, Opal"