He waited patiently for Yuri to finish her speech and noted the dinner date and time on the phone's calendar. He soon returned to his speculations: everyone was invited. That was good, on the one hand, because she would go unnoticed, and bad, on the other, because she would also be very aware that everyone was ignoring her. It is not that socializing was bad for her, nor that people passed her by. They looked for her when they had a problem “that was already something”, and Julie and company were nice, although they continued to form a closed group that didn't need a fourth member.
At least he could take a partner, right? Shan would gladly pretend to be his college girlfriend if there was food involved. Only Lea wasn't going to eat in front of fifteen pairs of eyes with a great ability to criticize.
He sighed and left the room without bothering to pretend he had a lunch to rescue from his cubicle. His reasoning was strange. Sometimes a contradiction. And sh
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I do not look. He continued with his eyes fixed on the wall, bloodshot. Irritation was leaking from his pores. It was a detonator and it seemed that at the slightest it would explode, but that was nothing new: Marc lived on the edge and Jesse did not want to imagine how exhaustive it had to be. “You knew it? he asked suddenly. “The fact that? “That Yuri is pregnant. He told me yesterday. Jesse swallowed very slowly. “I was…I was so excited,” Marc murmured, running a hand through his hair. I told him I was glad, that everything was fine, and waited a courtesy twenty minutes to get out of there without showing that he needed to breathe. "And did you breathe enough to calm down?" Marc dropped his hand. The blond locks shot out. "No, Jesse, because we're just as likely to go to hell today as we were yesterday." In fact, we have more, because the day is closer. He already knew the answer to the question, but he asked
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A while later he entered the restaurant with all the confidence he could feign. She greeted the bosses”Sandoval, Ambani, and Moore”among the eighteen guests, nervous if anyone was watching her, and took the only free chair. “I think you sat down where Sandoval's plug was, her cousin from Barcelona. He took off to the bathroom five minutes ago and he's not back yet, but better. We at least like you,” Kara commented, her mouth twisting. She had exaggerated her catlike features with a heavy layer of makeup; big gold Bollywood type earrings completed her outfit. I love your dress. “Do not even say it. You are beautiful “corroborated Julie, on the other side of the table. As usual, she was dressed in pale pink, discreet and adorable. You all are. Lea noticed what was important. The champagne had already been served, a sign that the speech was over and she could put her plan into action: drink until she was drunk enough to show her rock”and”roll side. "We w
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Leah sighed and threw her head back. "I have come with an open heart, Rumba to raise the dead, Or to spit your sweet poison...». Jesse rested her chin on her shoulder, continuing to rock forward, where she begged for a while longer clinging to her pants. A knot had formed somewhere in her stomach, which she squeezed and squeezed, asking for another kind of approach. "... For you to bite this tongue, my black mamba..." she sang in a deep voice. That's how it's done. Are you going to take it all out today? Are you going to free yourself at last...? Leah turned around and put her hands on his shoulders again. He directed them like a magnet to his waist. He wedged his knees between hers to dance side by side. It was much hotter. She could feel the dress clinging to her skin, even the wet nape of her neck and a tingling in her lower abdomen. She exchanged an intent look with Jesse, who was waiting for an answer and wasn't going to settle for less.
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"What wasn't that bad?" he repeated, taking a step closer. He lifted her chin by tapping it three times right at the base. I thought I was going to die in your arms. I had a real fear of not surviving. I was reaching for my cell phone in the back pocket of my pants to call my mother in case she didn't live to tell the tale. "You're exaggerating," he muttered, staring at the ground. Everybody kisses like that. “First, not everyone has a mouth that looks like a vacuum cleaner and a three”dimensional portal at the same time. And second: if everyone kissed like that, they would have slapped the twenty. It's been a pleasure living to test your style, mamba. Leah shook her head, as if she didn't want to accept what he was saying. She made to leave, but at the last moment Jesse grabbed her hand in a fit that would cost him his reputation. I could already see it the next day in the Miami paper courtesy of the associates: "Jesse Ambani sleeps with his deputy."
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“This is what you get for running away like that. Anyone will think we mistreated you," she complained, touching his little head with her index finger. Don't ever do this again, you hear me? I let you flutter around the house three times a day, if I had you locked up twenty”four hours, well... God, what a scare you gave me. He sighed, shaking his head. The bird finally chirped, as if to say that it was fine. Lea smiled and covered him with her hand before getting up. If I forgive you… He was babbling incoherently to the bird for a while longer until he remembered that Jesse was still there, just like the most carnivorous dog in the history of canines. Her smile turned into a nervous grimace when she saw her boss look at her with a strange expression, as if she was holding back her laughter and at the same time she had just been struck a chord. “How adorable. Lea cut him off as her eyes widened, stopping just above her brows. What happens? "Did I do that to yo