Because of His Future (For His Pleasure, Book 26) by Kelly Favor

Author:Kelly Favor [Favor, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2015-07-21T05:00:00+00:00

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After the funeral, Liam explained to her that a large contingent of the mourners were going to a nearby restaurant which had been rented out for their use.

They were in the limousine when she told him that maybe she should just go back to the hotel and wait for him.

“Why?” he asked, raising an eyebrow.

“Because,” Grace said, shaking her head. “I don’t know any of these people, and I don’t fit in.”

“Come on,” Liam said, giving her puppy dog eyes. “It’ll be different. Most of them are my old college buddies and everyone’ll be drinking and more relaxed. Like a party.”

“I don’t know,” she said, feeling a sense in her gut that she didn’t want to do this.

But Liam continued to prod her. “Please, Grace,” he said finally. “I need you. I can’t do this alone.”

And again, she felt that responsibility to be there for him, to show her love and prove herself.

The car pulled over and despite the fact that she truly wanted nothing more than to stay in the car and be driven back to the hotel—Grace got out of the car and went into the swanky restaurant with him.

Just before they went inside, he grabbed her hand again and looked at her. “Stay with me,” he said.

“Of course,” she replied.

He leant in and kissed her softly on the lips and made it all worthwhile.

Then they walked inside, and Liam was instantly swarmed by a mob of men—some of the very same ones that she’d seen that day at Easton’s wedding.

Or maybe they all just looked alike. Rich, elite, having grown up privileged and wealthy, their smiles and haircuts and fancy clothes a testament to everything Grace wasn’t and would never be.

Easton and Red were down the far end of the bar, drinking together. She almost went over and then remembered that they’d just fired her.

So Grace stood awkwardly near Liam as he was handed a shot and a beer and dutifully drank both in record time.

There were women in the restaurant, too. Women that couldn’t wait to make sad faces and hug Liam and tell them how sorry they were for his loss.

It was difficult to stand there and watch these beautiful, privileged people congregating and knowing that she really was outside of it all.

Nobody wanted to talk to her.

It wasn’t an obvious shunning, so much as there was just a lack of any real effort to include her or speak to her. She might have a quick two-minute conversation with someone who seemed to be looking past her the entire time.

But it was so clear that she wasn’t up to par in this society.

And Liam was busy talking, laughing, drinking.

Grace went to the bar to order a beer for lack of anything better to do. But even at the bar, the bartenders were busy serving everyone else and seemed to ignore her. After they’d asked for the orders of people standing next to her and even behind her, Grace finally lost her patience.

She felt stupid and insignificant.

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