“Thank you. I’m unsure how I can breathe at all.” I laughed along with the lady I was chatting with, who had pointed out how tight my dress was. She wasn’t wrong. If I wasn’t used to dressing this way, I would have heaved over.
“Well,” Mariano huffed by my side, “I wanted you to meet my business partner, but he needs to do his part up there first.” He nodded toward the podium.
“That’s all right. I can wait.” I sipped my drink, enjoying myself in a room full of high fashion and good times. It had been too long since I’d let loose and done something that wasn’t calculated to the tenth degree.
“There he is.” I followed where he was pointing and did a double take at the man with a killer smile onstage.
The crowd whistled and cheered. They obviously loved him, and even the men seemed to be
