Before midnight by Kristel Ralston

Author:Kristel Ralston [Ralston, Kristel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-24T07:00:00+00:00

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Three hours later, they finally got to the Seymour Lounge. They entered the exclusive place and asked for the table that Emke had reserved. The blonde girl was really surprised to see Lauren accompanied by such a hottie like Caleb. She didn’t ask any awkward questions and was completely charming as always, something that Lauren felt really grateful for.

“Where did you find that hottie?” Emke asked while they were fixing their makeup in the ladies’ room.

Lauren smiled and applied some lip-gloss on her lips.

“I already told you the story while we were putting your Christmas decorations up, you know, the mix-up at the escorts agency, his grandmother…”

As unsubtle as always, Emke dropped her lipstick and picked it up again.

“That’s Sylvinna’s grandchild? So… did you two make up?”

“Something like that,” she answered, putting her makeup back in her bag.

“He’s so hot! Even I would’ve agreed to be a part of that grandmother’s experiment and if it failed, I’d try the same thing with another one of her grandkids.” Emke exclaimed with a laugh. “I’m glad you’re telling me. Now that I know that this Caleb guy is ‘that Caleb’ I’ll make sure not to say anything inappropriate”. Lauren raised an eyebrow and Emke smiled. “I think this mission isn’t so hard, and by the look on your face I can see that it’s actually been fun so far, am I right?

Lauren let out a laugh. Without uttering another word, she took her friend by the arm and pushed her back to the bar.

The place was superb. There was a reason why it was one of trendiest places in town. It was amazing to see people from different countries mixing up and dancing to the beat of the same music.

“If you tell Emke too many personal things, she’ll probably psychoanalyze you and I don’t think you’d like that very much, Caleb,” Lauren said with a smile. They had just finished dancing to a few tunes and they were about to enjoy some of the place’s famous cocktails.

Now that Emke knew everything about the situation between Lauren and Caleb, she made sure to help her friend to maintain appearances. There were other friends around them but they were too busy dancing and filling their glasses to interact with them. When Emke introduced Lauren as ‘Marie’, one person in the group tried to object but Emke subtly changed the subject. With all the music and the sound of laughter around them, the only thing that mattered was having a good time. Sheine and Duncan were really nice; the first one was Emke’s colleague, while the second one worked in a shelter for Syrian immigrants and directed a special Van Gogh exhibition.

That was the only one awkward moment that made Lauren sweat. Emke had set up that meeting with the purpose of giving Lauren a distraction, but she didn’t know that her friend would bring a date. Lauren hadn’t had time to call her anyway.

“So, you work with technology, right?” Emke asked while the waiter served their second round of drinks.

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