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To this day, I still didn’t know any , calling bars to see if anyone by her naot me any closer to her

God, as she? Where was she?

Before her, there hadn’t been any fe year, not an inkling or feeling or e on work My arousal was left to ot the job done, but it was one hell of an easm

God, I wanted Adele She was the only fe

The sound of haht outside the work trailer, couldn’t drown out h I desperately wanted them to Adele had been a constantly on mymy damn mind

But I was being sent back to the city for work in the next couple days, a short forty-five-h I loathed work travel, even a short one like this, I was practically salivating to go on this particular trip

I’d taken off a week afterto find her I didn’t care if I had to turn over every damn bar in the city I’d find Adele

I’d make her mine

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Adele

I leaned against the counter, e singing the blues Her voice was slightly husky, this deep tone that went straight into your body and tugged at your heart I was drowning in her notes, in the way the emotion was laced in the words that spilled fluidly from her lips

“Yo, Adele”

I blinked a few times and looked over at Bishop, Lyrics bartender and the owner of this establishht it eird the owner tended the bar, but Bishop was a hands-on guy when it ca that’s why it was as successful as it was

“Here is table six’s order” He gave me a wink and set the last drink he’d just made on my tray

I looked down at the drink order

Two Bloody Mary’s, a Long Island iced tea, and a whiskey sour This order was going to the table off to the side, a bachelorette party, where the girls were already good and drunk, a little too loud, and clearly not in the right establish was more fit for a club, not a s almost on the outskirts of the city