Chapter 76

Pushing through crowds of expensively dressed clubbers once more, even more agitated that people keep getting in my way when I’m in no mood for it until I find a sign for an outside smoking area and force my way through to get to it. I feel drained, losing my warm glowing buzz from alcohol as I get into the cool evening air and relax a little as it hits my naked arms and shoulders in my short strappy dress. Miami is a hell of a lot warmer with more humidity than New York, and even though I’m in a very short and low-backed dress, I don’t feel cold at all. I feel relieved to have air, space and quiet from the club’s thump, thump, thump. It’s a distant noise out here.

I went for a subtly sexy, short cowl neck dress in silver sparkles with a dropped back to above my arse, leaving nothing much to the imagination for once. I wanted to show off, be seductive and glam and show all my assets in one go. I wonder if, deep down, I was deliberately trying to entice him and punish him a lit