“Doesn’t matter. It’s the principle. He shouldn’t be in a club with random women if he cares about Aoi,” I retort, downing the rest of my Pornstar Martini. “He doesn’t deserve him.”
“Maybe he’s trying to move on from Aoi, so he won’t stand in your way?”
I scoff, almost laughing at the absurdity of her words. “Aiden wouldn’t be caught dead doing something that isn’t in his interest.”
My annoying best friend laughs her ass off but suddenly stops and throws her straw in my face to snatch my attention away from the bane of my existence. “Liv, what the fuck?”
“Shut the fuck up and look who just walked in, arms linked with three gorgeous women!” she whisper-yells.
“Who the fuck-” My jaw drops, and I gawk at the most ravishing man who ever walked the earth as he heads toward the bar with three ladies giggling around him. “No fucking way.”
“I’ll be damned.” She whistles. “Seems Aiden isn’t the only womanizer.”
My body moves on its own, and the next second I’m walking up to them, my heart beating furiously in my chest as a smile spreads over my face.
Aoi. My divine Aoi.
“Now that you’re single, you can have all the fun in the world!” a pretty, Black woman with copper and blonde dreadlocks says while she tugs on Aoi’s arm.
Single?
If it isn’t my lucky day.
Although I’m not sure I appreciate her clinging to my man. Guess I’m going to have to show her and her friends that I’m Aoi’s future fucking husband and they better back the fuck off.
Who even are they? Wait, now that I look closer, I think I’ve seen them before.
The girl clinging to his arm stops jumping when she notices me. She pokes Aoi’s arm, and he turns to face the reason behind her abrupt halt.
“Andrew? What are you doing here?” he asks, cheeks peachy and eyes sparkling.
“He’sAndrew?” the woman wonders with a smirk. “Well shit. When you said handsome, I didn’t expect him to be a literal snack!”
He spoke about meandcalled me handsome?
Fuck, I’m going to blush. I fucking love him.
Just looking at that shy smile on his face makes me want to kiss him all over and give him the world.
“Sally, get your ass here,” a blonde woman orders, pulling her friend backwards. “Leave him be and come order your drink.”
The light brown skinned woman with sharp blue eyes and a golden nose ring glares at me as she huffs and pulls her two friends toward the bar.
Jeez, she definitely hates me.
What did Aoi say about me for her to be so hostile? Was I really being delusional when thinking he was warming up to me?
“I’m out with my best friend,” I reply, smiling as his eyes glaze over my figure with subtle desire. Visha, keep it in your pants for fuck’s sake. This isn’t the moment to get hard. “Did I do something wrong?”
He chuckles and leans into me. “You’re good. They just don’t like men much.”
I nod and let my gaze drift to his delicious and plump lips, begging to be tasted, but I force my eyes to focus on his gorgeous sapphires. “Perfectly understandable.”
The dark-skinned woman who seems to loathe me, calls out to Aoi and asks him what he wants, to which he says to order whatever. His attention is back on me a second later as if he can’t keep his eyes off me for long.
And fuck does it make my stomach flutter.
“Put it on my tab,” I say, holding his gaze until he’s forced to look at the woman whom her friend called Sally earlier who’s jumping giddily next to him.
