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I covered my face in both hands, suddenly feeling a little bit embarrassed that this guy had just seen me in what kind of looked like a lover’s quarrel.
“I don’t even know him,” I swore. “I mean…we talked last night and then…”
“Mi amor,” he said as he placed one finger on my chin and lifted my face up so we could look eye to eye. “It’s ok. I’m just sorry you have to come to my country and be treated like that.”
I hugged him. I don’t know why. Thinking back, it seemed like an odd thing to do, but what can I say? I’m impulsive.
I never leave a grocery store without buying one of the candy bars at the checkout and I’ve fallen for many late night infomercial gimmicks. Just last month I bought one of those sets of pots and pans with the handles that absolutely never get hot.
I was so excited to cook with them. My first meal? Stir-fry chicken. And guess what. I burned the shit out of my hand. Those motherfucking handles get hot.
The point is, I’m impulsive. I make quick decisions and just go with it. Except in love of course. Then I’m all maybes.
My hug seemed to surprise him as much as it did me. But then he wrapped his arms around me, his big muscular biceps, and squeezed me tight. He put one hand on the back of my head and pulled me into him. And I felt like I’d known this guy forever. Yet I knew nothing about him.
“You just need to be held,” he said, understanding me completely.
“Javier, get us two drinks please,” Valentino said.
Who the fuck is Javier? Where are these guys coming from?
“What kind of drinks, mang?” Javier asked.
Mang? Oh…man…with a g…mang. How cute.
I found the mang man and saw that he was younger than Valentino and had kind of like a mohawk, with lines shaved in the sides of his head.
Valentino the adorable one, Marco the prison yard boss, and Javier the 80s break dancer. Got it.
How many more of these guys would pop out of the crowd?
Valentino let go of me and replied to his friend in Spanish so I had no idea what kind of drink was coming my way. I still had no desire to drink but Valentino was so cute saving me and then buying me a drink that there was no way I’d turn it down.
“Mandy?” Jill shouted over the music from a few feet away.
Javier came back with our drinks but as soon as Valentino saw my friend he pointed at her, his silent order for Javier to hand his drink over to her. This guy was incredible.
But why are these bad looking dudes following his orders?
Jill slid up next to me and locked her arm around mine.
“Friends of yours?” she asked.
“Kind of,” I said.
“I’m her bodyguard,” Valentino said.
“She’s been needing someone to GUARD her body,” Jill said, drawing out the word guard.
Marco came back and pulled Valentino aside for a second. Jill took the chance to gather intel.
“Holy shit, he’s hot,” she said in my ear.
“I know,” I squealed through clenched teeth. “And you’ll never guess who he just scared away.”
“Who?”
“Who had you bent over the bed last night?”
