Female Novel
Chapter 107
Chapter 107
Ivan laughs at me then, at my speechlessness, and | can’t help myself — | laugh too, putting my head in my hands.“Yes,” | say, blushing terribly. “I have heard of you. And | have to
say, it has not all been good things.”
“Oh, come on,” he says, still laughing a little. “It can’t have been
all bad.”
| peek out from between my fingers and raise an eyebrow at him letting him know that, yeah. It’s all been bad.“What,” he says, joking, “nobody told you about my striking good
looks or my debonaire sense of style when they were telling you
about my success in the drug trade?”
I shake my head slowly, finding myself laughing again. | can’t help
it — he’s terribly charming.
“Well,” he says, giving me a sexy little half-smile. “Now you
know.”
Ivan catches the eye of a waiter and holds up a hand. “Two shots. of tequila,” he says, definitive. The waiter nods, walking theshort distance to the little bar and interrupting the bar tender to get the
order in right away.
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“What —” | say, my eyes following the waiter. “No, | can’t —”2/4
“Oh, come on, Fay,” Ivan says, leaning back in his chair. “Relax. | can tell you’ve just had the surprise of your life. You need alittle something to settle the nerves.”
The waiter comes back and Ivan takes the drinks from him, sliding him a folded bill and giving him a wink. | can tell by thewaiter’s pleasure that it’s a gigantic tip.
| hesitate, but lvan winks at me as well and holds the shot nearertome.
So, | take it from his hand, shrugging. The truth was, | could use a little bit of a relaxant right now. If I’m the unwitting bachelorettein
my father’s little setup, then I’m not sure | want to do it sober.“Bottoms up,” | say, taking the lime off the edge of the glass andholding it up to toast Ivan. He does the same, and then watchesme slowly lick the salt from the rim of the glass and toss my shotback before doing the same.
The tequila is sharp in my throat and sinuses and | can’t help it asmy whole body shudders. | make a face, then, at the taste of it, sticking out my tongue and pressing my eyes closed.I can hear Ivan laugh at me. “The lime,” he says. “Bite the lime.”
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away the sharpness of the tequila on my tongue.
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I laugh as | open my eyes again, meeting lvan’s smile with my own. He gestures to the waiter again, ordering another round, and| lean back in my chair, letting him.
I'm a little surprised at myself, then — a feeling that’s becoming oddly more familiar as the weeks pass. Fay of a few weeks agowould have run screaming when she found out that she was doing shots of tequila with the wunderkind head of a mafia
organization. With Kent’s worst enemy.
But Fay of today? Honestly, I’m kind of enjoying myself.
“See?” Ivan says, leaning closer to me. “You're already morerelaxed.”
“You're right,” | murmur, looking around at all of the people in thecircle — at all of my suitors, apparently. | shake my head at the
ridiculousness of it all, at the wasted effort.
After all, I’m engaged to Daniel, and I’m very happy to be....Right?
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When we're finished, | settle back in my chair, leaning a littlecloser to Ivan so that we can talk quietly.
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