”The two of them, along with Fatema and Peri who were seated on the rug, watched as Kara stumbled around the room, semi-delirious. She appeared read...y to float away, buoyed by her rum-enhanced holiday cheer.“Mmm! Do you know how much I love this nog?” she chuckled, taking another satisfying swig of sickly sweetness. “You did make it,” Tru said.“Oh, yeah?” Kara asked. She melted basking in her own glow. “Oh, yeah.”Tru refilled her cup. “Everything has been so perfect, Kara. I’m beginning to. “People say that gorgeous Dutchman conducted a master class, but nobody really knows anything.” “That was rather what I wanted.” “Yes, of course,” Bunty struggled to conceal her disappointment that any further information was unlikely to be forthcoming. “But I really wanted to ask if you were doing anything tomorrow.” “Tomorrow? Yes, I’m afraid I am. Meetings morning and afternoon. What did you have in mind?” “Well, you know Neville has gone off on one of those G8 things - it’s his second year. One day at lunch, he mentioned that he’d scored a couple of tickets to see a local band play and was anyone interested in going with him. I wanted to blurt out that I’d go, but I was afraid he’d think I was too eager.But when everyone else had to pass due to previous plans or whatnot, I tapped him on the shoulder and said, “I’ll go.”“Really? Thanks, Jordan,” he beamed. “It’s a date!”Then he headed back to his desk.A date? Did he mean that? Or was it just a figure of speech? Part of me wasn’t. 00. Now here is the address to the boutique; go get yourself a sexy pair of shorts and a pair of sexy heels. Tell the woman there you need to look like a stripper and what you are looking for, and she will help you. Kat says she buys all her clothes there and so do a lot of the girls she works with. She should know what to show you." Olivia goes to the shop after work and meets with the woman there. She explains what it is she is going to be doing and what she needs to buy. The woman shows her.
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