She by Annabel Fanning

Author:Annabel Fanning [Fanning, Annabel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

8. You Shook Me All

Night Long

We dig another of Mercy’s home-cooked meals out of the freezer, warm it through and manage to create two small servings. Donning our robes, we eat outside on the terrace, sitting on the only two seats available.

Logan was right, it is bleak out here. I scan the space, which is about thirty square metres, and even in the dark I can imagine how it could look. I could make an urban paradise up here, blocking out the busyness and business of the surrounding buildings, and creating an oasis retreat for Logan to recoup in.

Hmm…

I decide, quite suddenly, that that’s exactly what I’m going to do! Now I have a birthday present for him, I think happily.

Logan watches me scan our surrounds. “You look like you’re deep in thought.”

“I am…but nothing I can share with you right now,” I grin.

“Why not?” he asks.

“C’est une surprise.” It’s a surprise.

“Intriguing as ever, Samuels,” he says, and I wink in response.

Mercy’s cooking is delicious. When I’ve finished eating and am done with licking the plate (much to Logan’s amusement) I wander over to the edge of the terrace and peer down to the street below. Even late on a Friday evening there is an ongoing ebb and flow of traffic; and the lights in all the nearby buildings are still blazing, although they’re all empty.

“It’s a long, long, long way down,” I say to Logan when he joins me at the edge.

“Yes. At least if I have a really bad day at work, I have a good place to jump from…”

I nudge him, disapprovingly.

He laughs. “Just joking, baby.”

On the ground a couple of blocks away I see a line of people gathered on the street, waiting to get in somewhere.

“What’s down there?” I ask, pointing to the line of people.

“It’s a nightclub.”

Ooh, that could be fun! “I believe it’s pronounced discotheque here. Can we go dancing?” I ask him.

“You saw what happened the last time we tried dancing…”

“Surely with people around you’ll be better behaved?” I tease.

Logan laughs, his beautiful face causing me to doubt my own self-restraint. “It was you who dropped your robe first,” he reminds me.

Ah, yes, so it was, I smile to myself. “I promise I’ll remain clothed,” I say.

Logan looks at me with longing, like he’d enjoy nothing more than getting me unclothed. My self-restraint diminishes, but suddenly I’m on a point-proving mission with myself, and I want to show myself that I can be civil in public. Last night was fine; why should tonight be any different?

“Come on, we can dance until dawn…and maybe they’ll play some N’Sync for you?” I say.

I don’t know whether it’s my persuasion or the thought of N’Sync that does it, but either way, Logan agrees.

*

Twenty minutes later Logan and I are being admitted into the club through the VIP entrance. I ask him why we get special treatment and he mutters something about a friend of a friend of Buddy’s, but it’s so loud in the club that I don’t hear the full explanation.

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