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ChapterFive
Gwen
“Are you seriously going to shove this juicy news under the rug and not talk about it?” Dru gives me a wide-eyed glare. “At least the man was seriously hot. Like, seriously.”
Dru and I are enjoying a late lunch on the roof terrace of the restaurant. We’re sitting around one of the wooden bench tables at the far end, which has a perfect view of the pier and the sailboats coming in.
Ignoring her comments and question, I take a sip of my coffee. Definitely not the best choice of beverage to calm my nerves, but I need it to help me stay awake and focused.
I’m also hoping that maybe, just maybe, the extra dose of caffeine will jog my memory. Because I still can’t remember anything from last night past Mr. Handsome walking away from me after my embarrassing rejection.
And I don’t know how he ended up in my house.
“Dru, please. There’s nothing more to talk about.” The more I talk, the worse I feel about my new debacle with Wrightsville Beach’s newest hunk..
My skin is still on fire even though the cool sea breeze is wrapping around me like a blanket.
It’s just gone two. After Mr. Handsome left this morning, Dru made me tell her the stuff I could remember, which was hardly anything.
After we finished the paperwork for the loan, I got a little break from her when she dropped it off at the bank.
Now we’re here again. We’re supposed to be finalizing the work schedule for the designs, so the people who ordered the new lingerie line receive their items on time, but she still wants to talk about him. And it looks like she’s not going to let it go.
“Did you see those abs?”
“Yes, I did see those abs.” Since I woke up naked, I’ve been trying to remember what else I might have seen.
Mr. Handsome said I would remember being with him. But seeing as I don’t, does that mean we did nothing?
Would I seriously have a guy like that in my house and not doanything?
I don’t know, and I’m not sure if I want to.
What I do know is that I went college-wild and whatever I did before I got home was bad, bad,bad, because I got a mouthful from Duke when I arrived at the restaurant earlier.
He was already here waiting for me, looking like he was going to blow a fuse and steam would pour out of his ears.
He was supposed to come by anyway because we get our rum supply from him, and he was fulfilling an order.
I barely walked through the door when he started chewing me out for my behavior at the bar. Duke has never spoken to me like that before. Probably because I’ve never given him any reason to.
The whole thing just made me feel more fucked up than I already am.
“Gwen, come on. This is ridiculous. You’re not even trying to remember.” Dru throws her hands up.
“Because we have more important things to worry about. Like fulfilling these orders. I also have to do the stock take.”
“I told you I would help with that if we got done on time.”
“Yes, but at this rate, we’re not going to get anything done.”
She pouts and pretends to be upset. “This is unfair. You spend the night with a seriously hot guy, and you won’t even try to remember the juicy parts to tell me.”
“How is that unfair? I could have had sex with this guy, and I don’t even know his name.” God, I sound like a slut.
“Plenty of people, including me, have done that.” She waves perfectly manicured fingernails in front of me, brushing off the notion as if it’s nothing.
