Chapter 54
I stared at the test 1 had sent over 30 minutes ago that had gone
Me baby, I’m at the restaurant
I sat by the hotel bar sipping my sorrows away. Today was date night and before she left this morning she had promised me that she would go out in an effort to make it. That was what she had said and I believed her. But here we were again and the
was not here.
We had agreed to meet at 6, a full hour after her meeting was set to finish. Today they were discussing with producers as to who they would like to offer roles in the movie. I knew that it was a big day for her but I also needed her.
I had wanted this date night to be our fresh start so that we could begin again. I had found the nicest French restaurant I could she was really into French cuisine now. And I had even bought her a new pair of diamond earrings that were burning a hole in my pocket. I was excited but she wasn’t there. Again.
When she canceled the site viewing I had been happy for the time For the first time since we moved here, I felt like a priority. But now after that day nearly two weeks ago, it was like it all reverted back
1 ran a billion-dollar business but I still found the time for her because she was my number one and I was now questioning if I was hers.
That was a dangerous place to be for a marriage.
I sipped on my whiskey allowing the bitterness to soak my disappointment. I lifted my hand in the air and waved down the bartender.
“Can I have another please?”
“Rough day?” The look of pity in his eyes made me frown. “You’ve been sitting here moping at your phone.”
“Oh yeah,” I sighed. “I kind of got stood up.”
“Then that woman is a fool.” A soft feminine voice said on my right. I turned to find a woman dressed in a power suit sipping on a martini. She was about three chairs away from me so I hadn’t noticed her when I sat down. But then again I never noticed any woman that wasn’t my wife.
“She’s just busy.” I said with a tight-lipped smile.
you all the same. You two planned this date and she should
left to go and get my refill. But I didn’t miss the subtle eye he made my way as if to say
date?” the woman
air. “It was a date night with my
I would make sure that I made time for you. But then again I have always been the doting kind of partner
had been. I felt like I was her number one. But now… it felt like this movie was her number one and I didn’t know how to feel about it. I wanted to be supportive and push her toward her goals but it was
bartender came back with my drink. “It’s on
the drink and sipped on the
place was turning us into. Had I known that this would be
fought her a little
body came down to
chairs down. She held a small smile on her face. She raised
rude, I raised my glass in the air and clinked it with hers. We both took sips of our drinks and settled into a comfortable silence. But after a while, the woman spoke again.
your thoughts?”
think sharing my problems with a stranger is the
wrong. A problem shared is a problem half-solved.” She turned in her chair to fully face me. “Besides, you look like you could use an ear.”
how would you figure that?” My gaze
down by your problems. And sometimes it’s easier to unload on strangers
to a random stranger’s problems on a
“Maybe I’m
miss the teasing tone in her voice and for some reason it made the
on whatever she was trying to throw out, but that didn’t mean that I was going to air mine and Adelaide’s
In fact, I think I can read
“Do tell.”
limited edition Richard Mille is to say anything, you are a man of money. And you seem to come from it but you have
she had pretty much hit the nail on the head. “So does this empath also
laughed, popping the olive into her mouth. “I’m a lawyer, which means I’m very
very good at lying too, right? Aren’t
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