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Brandon, on the other hand, was desperate to look for his second wife He wanted to create a business empire and an empire needs an heir

As to the girl as leaning in close to ether for me to admire, I wasn’t usually bad with names, but I was so damn preoccupied that I didn’t really listen ere introduced earlier in the evening The talk was loud and the lass or three of bourbon and orking on a serious drunk

I wanted to forget everything

So when she asked , I couldn’t re the previous fifteenraptly to everything she said

“Let’s dance, Beckett,” she said and grabbed my hand I smiled and allowed myself to be pulled away from the bar

“What’s your name,” I asked e arrived in middle of the dance floor

She stopped dead in her tracks “You don’t remember my name?”

I shrugged and tapped my head with a fist “Sorry,” I said and shouted into her ear over the noise “It was a hard day I’ a blank”

“You’ve been talking to me for an hour and you don’t know my name?”

She gave u

st and then went back to the bar, leavingpeople I didn’t really care, because I hadn’t planned on picking up a wo I needed so physical to work out the stress

So I did what any drunk red-blooded American male would do when stood up by his dance partner I started to dance bybodies No one cared that I was alone In fact, everyone was happy to dance with me, male and fe after song until I was so hot that I had to ree of the dance floor

I seriously needed to work out a a-dose of business-related stress

When I finally left the dance floor, I saw that the young wo in close to Brandon They looked hot and heavy and so I set a beer at the other end of the bar I’d let them romance each other while I cooled off

I met up with another staff member and we stood at the bar and talked about the day at work, drowning our mutual sorrows I switched to tonic water about then because I could feel I’d almost reached my limit