Exposure by Annie Jocoby

Author:Annie Jocoby [Jocoby, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tobann Publications
Published: 2015-01-16T05:00:00+00:00

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Right at the top of the hour, everyone started arriving. There was Brent, a buddy from Yale, and he had a stunningly gorgeous brunette on his arm. Her name was Amelie, Amy for short. They were the first to arrive.

“Good to see you, buddy,” Asher said, giving Brent a hug, and kissing Amy on the cheek. “And you, Amy, you’re looking spectacular.”

“Do you really think so?” she asked, and I rolled my eyes. Of course she knew that she was drop-dead. Don’t try to pretend differently, bitch.

They both came over to me and shook my hand. “Wow, so you’re marrying Asher, huh?” Brent asked me, as he and Amelie examined my ring. They both looked very impressed. “Talk about a whirlwind romance. I didn’t even know Asher was seeing somebody new until he called me about this party tonight.”

“Well, you know what they say. When it’s right, it’s right. No reason to try to drag it out when you meet the one,” Asher said as he took Amy’s coat and handed it to Marguerita. “Isn’t that right, CJ?”

I nodded nervously.

“CJ,” Amy said to me. “Interesting name. What do the initials stand for?”

“Actually, that was my birth name,” I lied. CJ stood for “Cordelia Jane,” and I was so embarrassed by those two names that I literally never told anyone what my real name was.

“Your birth name? Really? How interesting.” She sipped some of the martini that was just brought to her, and the look on her face said that she found me, and my alleged weird birth name, to be anything but interesting. In fact, she looked downright bored.

“Well, what can I say,” I said, being tempted to tell her that my mother was an odd sort who had a penchant for anything Shakespeare, and I was just lucky that she didn’t call me Goneril. The kids would have had a field day with a name like Goneril, that was for sure, and I just knew that I would soon be known simply as Gonorrhea. Cordelia was bad enough, I thought.

Regan wouldn’t have been such a bad name, though.

“So, how did you and Asher meet?” she asked, her blue eyes getting wide.

Asher and I had actually gone over our “meet cute” story beforehand, so I had it memorized. “Both of us went into an animal shelter to look for a new puppy. Well, neither of us got a puppy, but our eyes locked and, before we knew it, we were talking like old friends.”

She nodded her head. “Shame Asher didn’t get a puppy. I know that he’s wanted one for awhile.”

“Well, that’s okay,” I said. “We didn’t get a puppy, but we got each other.”

She touched my arm and said in a low voice. “Well, you lucked out. Sophie has told me all about Asher’s equipment.” She nodded her head. “I think that you hit the jackpot there.”

I smiled, not really sure what to say to that. Was I supposed to confirm it? Did she want me to

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