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But second, because she was nothing like the leather jacket and Chucks-wearing woman I’d first run into

A couple of blinks, though, proved to me that this was, in fact, the very sauards, had hidden in my trunk, had flown across the world, and had spent some very intimate moments with

This was just a very elegant version of her

Her silky black hair was left loose, but had a little more wave to it than was natural to her It fell over her bare shoulders and oas a deep red silk that co off the hints of icepick heels, and had this criss-cross over the skin of her back that created a peek-a-boo effect that I found it hard to look away from

The only reason I ed was because I wanted to look at her face

She hadn’t worn any , she’d had on mascara and liner in a somewhat chunky fashion that matched her sort of badass-chick-style She had theala too, but in a more understated way, and paired with a red lipstick

She had graduating circle dia to ht anytis No bracelets Which made the diamonds stand out all the more

I was so fixated on her for so long that Inext to a man

He was tall and slim in an expensive suit with a pricey watch strapped to his wrist And, objectively, theEven if a part of me hated to admit that

Jealousy—new and foreign—surged through my system

I alnize it for what it was at first

I couldn’t think of a single instance in my life that I’d ever felt jealousy when it came to a woman or whichever man she decided to be with

Woht Easy Nothing that got too sticky or too complicated

I’d watched o in and out of relationship after relationship with a sort of detached bewilder why he bothered with the co temporary anyway

It wasn’t that I hadn’t been raised to think about a wife and children Heirs were very iured I had tiht I deserved a lot of light and warm and fun after that

There was always time for serious sometime down the road

But because I’d never wanted anything serious, I wasn’t fa upset when a wo ith another man

It was h