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“Oh, right,” he drawls.
Hannah introduces herself.
“You a friend of JD’s?” asks Bridget.
“I don’t know,” Hannah replies, turning to JD. “Am I?”
JD smiles before answering, “’Course.”
Hannah gives him a playful shove. Their gazes lock briefly.
Felipe approaches. “What can I get you?”
“A Shirley Temple and a bourbon,” I answer.
“How’s the jet lag?” Bridget asks JD.
There’s something in her tone. It’s not an innocent question.
He shrugs dismissively.
“Oh, that’s right. Your sister’s wedding,” Hannah says. “How was it? I bet it was beautiful.”
“Everything Andrea does has to be beautiful,” JD says.
Felipe sets our drinks down in front of us.
“You attended a wedding, too, recently,” I say to Hannah. “Tell JD what the couple did.”
Hannah proceeds to describe an extravagant wedding that included a cake decorated with over a thousand crystal rhinestones. When she mentions the bride’s brother, JD tells Hannah the story of when the two of them joined forces to pull a prank on Ron. Meanwhile, I finish my bourbon quickly.
“Bridget and I are going to head upstairs,” I say when JD’s done with his story.
“I’m not done with my drink,” she objects.
“Bring it with you.”
I take her elbow in one hand and grab her drink with the other.
“So who exactly is Hannah?” she asks.
I knew she was going to ask that. “An old employee,” I reply.
“Old? She looks pretty young.”
“Old meaning it’s been a while.”
“Did she work for you or JD?”
“Me. She did clerical work for about six months.”
Bridget is quiet when we reach the elevator to head up to my place, but I know more questions are coming. I can see the wheels turning as she nibbles on her thumbnail in thought.
“Hannah seems pretty friendly with JD,” Bridget remarks.
“That a problem?” I return.
“He told Amy he was too jet-lagged to come to the club.”
