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As predicted, Bo missed dinner, but she assured me she had a nice meal during the meeting and that she would catch up to us at whatever club we ended up hitting. Dessert was next. There was a special little place we always like to go to for girl’s nite that had the best homemade cakes and delicacies and the waitresses were nice to look at to the gills, I almost wanted to call it a night and head home, but I had been looking forward to a night out. so had Bo. we’ve kept low key with the exception of some dinners and shows, but both of us were the type that needed to let loose on occasion. So here was our chance.

Charlie, Mandy, Shawnna and I hopped into our rented limo knowing damn well we’d already had a few too many and the night was still young. Our party was shifting from stuffing our faces to burning off calories at Vesuvius, the top rated club in the city, which was also in Bo’s home hotel. Not only was it the best, but it made it easier for Bo to just come down stairs when she was finished. She’d sent me a few texts, all with a frustrated tone of how this was taking longer than she wanted and there were some sticking points among the board. She hadn’t even had the one-on-one skype with her father yet as the evening approached eleven o’clock.

I couldn’t wait to see her. We’d both left for work early this morning and it had been a long day of annoying, entitled customers that wanted to meet me more now than ever and the tedious task of looking over the final contracts. I got Ernie to put us on the fast track. He wanted to travel and spend time with the family while he still could and didn’t want to waste time with the sale. He knew I’d take good care of what he had worked so hard to build. When I left my dealership, I dropped off the contracts and made it all official. I now had two more stores under my own belt to go with the Lewis Family motor corporation.

”Hey,” Mandy startled me when she leaned in close, ”what’s going on in that mind of yours?”