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“That’s not…I have to focus on the Z-Box account This is hardly what I need right now,” she objected
“Well, he’s a guy”
“Oh, I noticed”
“Then,” her sister said, bea as if she’d just come up with soo out, and uy’s perspective for , and done, you know?”
“Or you just want to move me around like a chess piece or your own personal Barbie so that I can see a guy I barely know again,” she said, hoping her sister hadn’t seen her out on the dance floor To be fair, she knew so it felt to have his erection rub against her thigh or how the masculine scent of him made heat flare in her belly “Besides, what kind of a hostess would I be if I went out tonight or tomorrow and left you here? You already have to do so much on your own because of my job’s crazy hours”
“Nuh-uh,” Sydney chirped “You are not using ood fo
r you”
“I think I resent that remark I do date”
“Not since the breakup, not really,” Sydney pointed out “I’ better, really Besides, Rose already offered to watch o out She told me so”
“I bet Rose did,” Jennifer said,over It wasn’t that she didn’t like her secretary It was more that she didn’t trust the coether to not burn her apartment down “I…”
Her sister shocked her by shoving Jennifer’s cell phone at her “Just call”
“Did you rifle through my purse?”
Sydney snorted “Oh please, like that’s the first time I’ve ever done that Just call”
“This is crazy, this is crazy, this is crazy,” she said under her breath as she waited outside of Luigi’s off Sixth
She wasn’t even dressed the saht She’d picked out a plain black shift, soh Jennifer also had adorned herself with her favorite necklace It was a diaotten for herself as a treat for her first real promotion at her company Still, the outfit was more serious, reflected who she really was It wasn’t the siren-in-red look that she’d sported last night It was unlikely that Bahan would even recognize her Besides, ht He wouldn’t be the first guy at a club to tell her about his great wealth or so ridiculous like that Maybe his “emporiums” were, at best, strip malls in Jersey