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Nuzzling her ear, I said, “Wow is right. You are the most gorgeous thing in this whole party.”
She dropped her head back and let out that laugh I loved, both elegant and down to Earth at the same time. And I was right.
She was the most beautiful woman there.
“Brodie!” a voice shrieked in my ear. Before I knew it, I’d been pulled free of Nara and caught in the bear hug of a female whose face I’d not yet seen.
“Hi,” I said, trying to sound enthusiastic.
Nara just looked shocked.
“Darling, you never called me,” the phantom hugger said, pulling away so I could finally see her face.
She was right. I hadn’t called her. I had fucked her, but not called her. She had been nice enough and even pretty, but the night I’d met her, she hadn’t stopped talking long enough for me to even learn her name.
That really bugged. Well, obviously it hadn’t bugged enough to keep me from doing her, but I wasn’t going to hang out with her again.
Funny thing was, as much as I’d whored around and enjoyed it, my desire to continue doing so was suddenly tempered. What was that all about?
Nara extended her hand to the talker. “Hello,” she said, smiling.
The woman’s smile faltered as she looked Nara up and down. “Do we know each other?”
“No,” Nara said with the world’s sweetest smile and dropped her hand. “And I don’t think we will.”
She hooked her arm through mine and led me away.
That’s my girl.
As we walked through the party, heads turned and nodded. I introduced Nara to those I thought she would enjoy meeting.
Even so, more than one woman looked her up and down and turned to their friends for a quick debrief. I wished Nara wasn’t subject to this petty bitchiness and realized I probably wouldn’t be back for next year’s party.
In fact, I didn’t think we’d even hang out at this one for very long.
“Brodie!” Joel said with Pam on his arm. Jesus, those two were indiscrete.
“Hey, Joel. Pam.” I introduced them to Nara.
Pam placed a hand on Nara’s arm. “Nara, let’s run to the ladies’ for a sec while the guys talk business.”
“Um. Okay.” Nara looked at me with raised eyebrows and turned to go with Pam.
Joel nudged me like the frat boy that he was.
“Yo, Brodie. You done good there. She’s a looker. She another one of your trust fund babies?”
He had no idea how annoying he was. And he seemed to be forgetting that I was the boss.
“She’s founder and CEO of a tech firm.” I nodded to the mayor as he passed by with his usual entourage of beautiful women.
“No shit? I don’t know any chicks who are tech anything, much less CEOs. Damn.”
I hadn’t known any, either. But I sure as hell was glad I did now.
