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She glugs back the whole glass in one go and slides it across to me. I do the same and re fill them both. I certainly had no plans to get shit drunk tonight but that’s before plans changed. Now it’s the only way.
Paige gets the dinner organized quickly and brings it out to us. I have to admit that it looks nice. Honestly, if this night was happening with someone that I liked then it would be the best night ever, the best date of my life, and that would stand even if I had a lot of dates to compare it to. But Gemma ruins everything.
“Guys, you two really need to talk a bit,” Paige finally declares as we tuck in. “The pictures look really stiff at the moment. I know that it’s awkward with us here, but can you just have a go?”
“Er, what do you want to talk about?” I ask Gemma while drinking some more.
“How about the fact that my business is so much more successful than yours?” She smiles sweetly, looking totally different from her words. “And the fact that companies come back to me far more than you?”
“I don’t know what you are talking about,” I hiss back, adopting the same nice smile. “My business is doing just fine and I think that if you take a look at recent contracts that we have both fought for, you haven’t been winning any of them. I can hardly handle the work load that I have coming my way.”
She stuffs her fork in to the food a little too hard and sneers. “Do you get the contracts because you sleep with people? Because I heard that’s how a lot of people with no integrity get to the top?”
“Oh no, they just like me better because I am not a cold-hearted bitch. A robot, some might say.”
More drink flows and somehow the insults keep on coming. It seems to be the only way that me and Gemma can communicate. The conversation is charged with anger and I keep expecting Paige to stop us at any given moment, but she doesn’t. It seems that she just needs us to talk and it doesn’t matter what we say. Well, that’s good because by this point we definitely don’t have a nice thing to say to one another.
“You must not have a boyfriend, right?” I finally hiss. “Well, I’m not surprised. I can’t imagine any man wanting to put up with you. You are a fucking nightmare. An absolute witch.”
Her eyes sparkle. Almost as if she is enjoying the exchange. I don’t know if I might be feeling the same way as well. This isn’t exactly what I had planned for tonight, but there is something to be said for getting a lot of hatred off my chest. It’s up lifting in a really strange way. I don’t quite know how to handle it.
“Oh okay, coming from Mr. Relationship, right? Like I will be upset with what you say.”
“I suppose.” I shrug my shoulders. “Because I wouldn’t give a shit about what you say either. Your words are meaningless to me. I’m sure they are to a lot of your clients as well.”
She rolls her eyes, electricity zinging through us in a weird way. I almost expect the pair of us to burst out laughing in a moment, like all of this anger has been a joke. “My many, many clients.”
“That are slipping away by the moment because I am stealing them from you, day by day.”
“That couldn’t be further from the truth, Daniel Are you completely deluded?”
“We shall see,” I reply mysteriously, teasing her with everything that I have. “We shall see…”
The camera snaps away, Paige remains oddly silent, the insults keep on coming… I honestly have no idea what way tonight is going to go, how this will end, but I am very intrigued to find out.Chapter 6 – GemmaWhat is happening here? I honestly have no idea. I don’t understand how the meal turned in to a drink afterwards, how me and Daniel who famously hate one another ended up laughing with each other, and how we are crashing through the front door to my home now, kissing one another like crazy. It’s absolutely wild. I mean, I hate this man. No amount of drinking is going to change that, but somehow, we’re kissing.
And fuck me, it feels good. The hate somehow manages to mix in with the magical tingling of his lips and it makes my whole body tingle and pulse with need. I suppose it doesn’t help that it has been a long time since a man has touched me like this. I have been so wrapped up in work that I forgot all about this.
“Shit you look good,” Daniel growls while slamming me up against my hallway wall. “So good.”
