"Someday you'll give up trying to make me respectable."Someday you'll give up trying to make me respectable." He snorted. "Babe, you can wear a burnoose to the next clients meeting for all I care. Just make sure you keep churning out those designs." "No problem. I was lying in bed last night when it came to me in a flash!" She gestured dramatically before grabbing an hors d'oeuvre and popping it into her mouth reflectively. "Hold on." Andy snapped to attention. "There's someone I want you to meet.", he said as he dragged her away from the buffet table. She cast a last longing glance at the food behind her. He walked her over to a group of navy Armani suits, and tapped the single grey Klein on the shoulder. The man turned around and his eyes fixed on Adrienne. "Garett Rate, I would like to introduce you to.." "Adrienne, its been a long time...", Garett smiled at her. "You two know each other?" asked Andy, a little confused. "You could say that." Adrienne gave him a slow smile. "We were lovers in college." Andy turned a shade redder and cast a nervous glance around them, expecting a fully-fledged scene to explode around him. The unusually calm note in her voice told him that this was not going to go well. "So you are the wunderkind that Andy has been trying to get me to sell.", said Garett taking her elbow and walking her back to the buffet. "I would have figured that you would never let anyone handle your own publicity." His pulse was racing as he felt her soft skin against his palm. He had never forgotten the strange energy she possessed but tonight she seemed to radiate it. The bronze brought out the gold in her skin and her hair was still the same jet that he remembered. "Ah well. Things change. |