Book 1: Chapter 29

“What is so funny?” I asked slowly.

I felt my temper slowly rise wondering if he was laughing at the idea that Reed would be with a woman like me. Sensing my anger, his hand reached out and stroked my own that was holding my beer. I subtlety moved my hand out of the way by pretending to take a drink of my beer. I didn’t want to encourage him by allowing him to touch me, but I absolutely did not want to risk insulting him in case he truly was just being nice.

“I’m sorry, little one. But it seems like you and about a hundred other girls are going to be waiting in line. Now that he is apparently back with Nina,” he responded and pointed across the room.

I followed his finger to a table that sat in a well-lit section. My heart did a flip when I saw Reed sitting there in the dim light like a dark angel.

Then my stupid organ stopped dead in its tracks when I saw him talking to a blonde-haired woman that looked like she had just stepped out of a fashion magazine. Sh