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Tony slipped his hand around Sylvie’s “Yep Can we have a table in the back?”

“Sure Follow me”

On autoed environh the crowded restaurant She picked up snippets of stage-whispered snide re down ten-dollar plates of dus

“Looks like Henry and Anton’s little girl found herself a rebound fuck…”

Sylvie shook her hair back and kept her eyes straight ahead

“Caught Daniel blowing a waiter How she didn’t know I’ll never understand…”

She jerked her chin higher

“That one works fast Should have expected it from her kind Total riffraff…”

Tony stopped so abruptly she collided with his strong back He sent a s iceberg lettuce around on her plate The testosterone level ratcheted up to a bazillion and the blond practically melted in her seat

“Hey there” Tony’s low voice took on a seductive tone that would force a nun to reconsider vocations

“Hi” The blond fluttered her eyelashes

He leaned in closer “Maybe if you’d been a little faster, you could have gotten me”

Pleasure pinkened her cheeks

“But I doubt it” He tweaked her snub nose “I don’t much like your kind As in, a total bitch”

The blond’s eyes rounded at the echo of her own insult