“You don’t recognize Daph?” Bea asks.
“Should I?”
“I guess not. Some people do, some people don’t. Her family owns the Aurora Gardens hotel chain. They get covered in gossip pages sometimes. Daph most of all, until a few years ago.”
“Ah, I see.” I nod, and my brains slosh around inside my skull and request that I not nod again.
“She moved in with Hudson and me about four years ago when her parents disinherited her after she was kicked out of Austen & Lovelace.”
Oh, that is juicy.
Almost as juicy as the hot dog inside my corn dog that’s really a willy dog, which I’ve very nearly finished. “Go on.”
“You don’t know this story?”
“How the—hic!—hell would I know this story?”
“It was all over the news, and you were living in New York too, weren’t you?”
“New York high society doesn’t care what I know about London high society. I—hic!—don’t care what I know about London high society. And out of spite, I refused to acknowledge—hic!—that New York society exists. They are all, every one of them, welcome to lick my boots.”
Oh, my.
I do like watching Bea eat her corn dog.
Her lips sealing around the thick tip is giving every part of my body ideas about what else she might put in her mouth.
Specifically, yes, my cock.
Her gaze freezes on me with that corn dog in her mouth, those lovely red lips wrapped around it, and I wonder if my evening might not have a happy ending after all.
I do like happy endings.
Though I like happy endings more when my head isn’t sloshy and when I have more certainty that I’ll have memories of the happy endings.
Bea finishes biting the end off and chews slowly.
She’s growing rather fond of you, the champagne tells me.
I giggle.
I do believe it’s correct, and isn’t that just hilarious?
Even if I cannot remember why?
I start to bite into my corn dog again, then wonder how this must look to her.
And I decide I don’t give a rat’s arse.
Prudish, I am not.
Bea clears her throat. “So Daphne was disinherited, and she?—”
“What did she do?Hic!Was it scandalous?”
“That’s her story to tell. All I’ll say is that she had to leave school and needed a place to stay.”
“So itwasscandalous.”
