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“Talk about a year we’ll never forget!” Jordan exclaiets into my car

Once she’s in, we head on our way to the radio station “Tell me about it We’ve made more money this past year than we have in the prior seven years combined”

All it took was planning a party and having the right people in attendance, which was the Valentine’s Day ball in Raleigh for the , we booked up solid We even planned a feeddings here and there Those aren’t exactly e’re known for, but I’ll still prepare the it my entire life What Jordan and I do love most is the Halloween season Masquerades and costume parties are my specialty I have a soft spot for them Maybe it’s becauseup My o hatever costume I had picked out, we’d decorate Halloween cookies, and then Halloween night, we’d hit all the haunted houses in the area They keep waiting for me to have kids so they can spoil them as they did me Unfortunately, I’m thirty-two years old and have yet to meet my soulmate and start my own family

“Last weekend’s party was pretty epic,” Jordan says, drawing hts

“Yes, it was,” I agree

She snorts and looks over atdown Brent Davidson He’s the freaking running back for the Carolina Cougars If I wasn’t married…”

I rollI want is to be in the tabloids like all his other conquests I feel sorry for all the wo, the e of planning the teaures fro, Christs as well Never inaswhat I love

Jordan sighs “Yeah, it’d probably be bad for business if you gottheir next parties very aard”

“Exactly” I nudge her withflirted with”

She narrows her gaze, giving rin of hers “I see on at the ether last month where someone in this car mixed a little business with pleasure” Her eyes widen “Maybe that’s why you didn’t want to get it on with Brent You’re still hung up on your mystery man, aren’t you?”

Groaning, I smack a hand to my forehead “Please don’t reue cloud ain”

Jordan fans herself “Well, whoever it was behind thebody and sexy hair I can’t believe you didn’t get his name”

“That was the whole point We didn’t want to know each other’s naest architectural firms held at one of the nicest hotels don The owner had all of his employees from both the east and west coasts come in There were hundreds of people All decked out in for gray eyes came my way, I couldn’t seem to tell him no I didn’t want to say no A round of drinks turned into another and another The next thing I knee snuck out of the ballrooht of it What I loved most about him was how attentive he was to me He , I was exhausted, but I slipped out before I could fall asleep

Jordan releases a heavy sigh “Oh, to be single again Sos like you It sounds so exciting”

I shrug “It’s not all it’s cracked up to be,” I say, even though I’ht I had with my mysterious man was one of the best tiain? Most definitely “I’d give anything to find the et er”

“Please, you look a And thirty-two is not old; it’s priet more and reen eyes Not to ht dresses you wear to the parties”