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I shake my head “I wasn’t” It comes out too defensive, and I know it “I mostly wanted feedback onme”
She sht your performance was lovely I’m sure he’ll tell you hio home”
“Oh, okay” I try to ignore the stab of disappointment in my chest “Thanks, May”
“He’ll have so more for you soon, so I’ll be in touch after the weekend, all right?”
“Sure”
On the way hoest chocolate bar I can find, and even that isn’t enough But it isn’t like we even know each other that well He’s my boss We’ve never dated; there are no proet upset with so they never offered? No But it sucks all the saet soet ho, this ties of Andrewme until there’s too much pleasure, and I don’t stop until I’m exhausted and tumble into sleep
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Videos of my ecstasy performance are all over the internet, and even I have to ad From the outside, the entire cast ofotherworldly creatures And even though it’s sexy, it doesn’t look like we’re all iasms I was afraid that it would look the way it felt, and the way it felt is not exactly soh the way it felt has provided asm quota
It’s only been a few days since the event, and every lad that I haven’t heard froe direct deposit that caoing to be that intense, I’ to need to rest my body
Knocking on the door of the Blind Scorpion, Fleece appears to let me in “I swear that you live here now,” I tell her The bar is closed since it’s only noon
“I swear, I feel like it lately”
“When is Barbara co back?”
A loud voice calls from the storeroom “I’m here Don’t worry, I’m not dead yet”
Fleece rolls her eyes “Of course not”
Barbara sweeps out of the back roolory A woman in her sixties whose very essence screa a bottle of whiskey and a bottle of vodka to replenish the stock behind the bar “How you doin,’ Delia?”
“Good Feeling better?”
“Oh, you know,” she grins, “five days of pulling uts up Will teach me to eat street tacos with a cold It’s a deadly combination”
I laugh even though that sounds awful “I’ll keep that in mind”
My phone chie from May An invitation “Hey,” I say to Fleece, and toss her the phone “Want to go?”
She reads the e out loud: “Delia, Mr Xellum wanted me to extend an invitation for you and whoever you’d like to bring to the Whitht It is, in part, a celebration of the up the neiuests If you stop by the studio beforehand, we’ll provide styling as well” She looks at est parties of the year”
“You should go,” Barbara says froht off”
“Sure you’ll be okay?”
The look on Barbara’s face is priceless “Baby, I’ve been runnin’ this bar by myself since before you could walk Of course I’ll be okay Go have fun”
Fleece tosses me back the phone, and there’s a sparkle in her eye that fro to a party”