“What is on your bucket list?”
Eliza gulped. She squeezed Rafe’s arm, and smiled at the random guest at her company’s cocktail party who had asked her. She had nothing but smiles, because everybody was somebody tonight and she was there to dazzle.
“Bucket list, fucket list,” Rafe whispered into her ear. “Really, is that the best conversation that someone can come up with?”
They laughed, and then they walked up to another guest.
Terrence walked up to her and Rafe, and he was not alone. Eliza smiled a tight smile, as she watched him walk over with another colleague. He told her he would be there with someone else and that it was casual, but it was startling to actually see him with her. Their company was big, so it was even more surprising to her that she did not know this woman.
“Ms. Morton, it is such a pleasure to meet you! I am Micha from the Paris office!”
Eliza smiled at the woman who stood beside Terrence and beamed at her. She now remembered having met the woman in Paris while she was there with Terrence.
“Micha, of course, a pleasure to see you again and in the States!”
“I was pleased that Terrence invited me! And it is nice to be here for a pleasurable event, and not just straight meetings!”
“Of course,” Eliza smiled, and turned to Rafe “This is my fiancé Rafe.”
“A pleasure to meet you Micha, and Terrence is it?” Rafe said.
Terrence nodded, and extended his hand to Rafe. The cocktail banter continued a bit more, until Terrence gave Eliza a return tight smile.
“He wants to fuck you.” Rafe said so plainly, Eliza almost choked on her scotch.
“Sorry?”
“I mean, I am not surprised—a lot of your male colleagues clearly want to—but he was with this Micha and he could not stop staring at you. I am sure if you check his pants, he is getting probably hard as fuck.”
“Rafe!”
She was not sure how to act, as she looked at Terrence out of the corner of her eye.
“Liza, you are not with me because I do not tell you the straight deal.”
He gulped his scotch like water, and her insides quivered from the truth and hidden passion.
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I guess that’s what’s replaced “What’s your sign” at cocktail parties. Obviously Rafe doesn’t know about Terrance.
mmm where will this go? Will Rafe find out that Eliza has already been with Terrence? Will Terrence turn out to be jealous of Rafe? And what about Oscar…
I am so intrigued to read on 🙂
Rebel xox