REED AND I RETURNED to the party, which had moved outside for Mimi and Jack’s ceremony.
“Where have you been?” asked Jesse, standing next to the sauna, drinking a wine-cooler. He didn’t appear upset in the least that I’d been gone for so long. When I noticed the cute group of young men he was standing with, I understood why.
“Sorry. Had to use the bathroom,” I said.
“Princess Puddles, should have known,” he teased. “I drank your wine-cooler by the way. It was getting warm. Sorry, sweetie.”
“No problem,” I answered. I was finished drinking for the rest of the night.
“I suppose I’d better go find Sela,” muttered Reed, his eyes scouring the crowd of people. Most were either standing around the pool or sitting at the tables, drinking and socializing. Others were playing dice or cards.
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