As I Breathe (One Breath at a Time: Book 2) by Bennett Leilani

Author:Bennett, Leilani [Bennett, Leilani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: J.R. Rain Press
Published: 2013-12-17T00:00:00+00:00

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Casual Encounters

Nuilley and I met each other at Café de’ Flore located on Rue Saint-Germain. I had already been seated and was waiting at a sidewalk table when she climbed out of a sleek, black limo. I didn’t expect anything less.

Damn! When she strutted out of the limousine, heads rolled in her direction. She wore her short red hair pulled up with a nineteen fifties bump high at the crown, an oversized wide-necked sweater hung off to the side, baring one shoulder and was paired with a black pencil skirt and shoe boots. To top it off, she was definitely braless, showing off her new breast implants.

I suddenly felt under dressed in my skinny jeans and a simple body-hugging black cami. To top off the simplicity of my outfit, I worn a waist-length silver chain with a nickel sized pearl attached to it. My hair was ironed-out pin straight, parted in the middle, hanging long and free. Our boots were an exact match; hers a gift from one of her celebrity goody bags, and mine from my food savings, but mine were lost beneath my jeans.

Our dinner was heavenly. Afterwards, we headed to a few clubs on the right bank of the Seine River. We ended up staying out much longer than I had planned and spent the evening toasting to anything and everything. After having a few too many, I broke out my signature wounded bird sexy shoulder move, that’s what my friends dubbed it, that brought me a huge amount of attention. We danced with everyone, both male and female. Near to the end of the evening, my face hurt from laughing so much.

After the nightclubs closed, we wound down at a quaint neighborhood after-hours café. There, we sang songs in French—I tried—around a piano with our arms wrapped around each other in drunken friendliness. The city of lights was everything that I dreamed it would be with all of its elegance, style and luxurious details. The night was a great way to begin my Paris relocation, I’d finally moved into my very own apartment. Even though my eyes stung because everyone was sucking in one cigarette after another, I embraced all that Paris had to offer.

So, that is how everyone stays thin in Paris, I thought. I smoked a few French cigarettes myself, just as an experiment. They were so much stronger than American cigs. I felt green and sick afterwards. We ended up shutting down this place too, but not before Mr. Tall, Dark and Handsome joined us...

“Nuilley, can you believe after all these years we are both here?”

“I told you one day it would happen.” She flashed me a smile, eyeballing a group of drunks in the darkest corner of the bar.

“You were right.”

“Hey, that kissable man over there is staring at you.”

He’s staring at me? Hopes to meet the man of my dreams flared in me.

“Where?” I responded, squaring my shoulders. “Point him out.”

“It’s not nice to point. Look out—he’s on his way over here.

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