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“I’m headlining my first campaign in May!” I blurted out.
She shrieked and screamed so loud, I had to hold the phone away from my ear or risk going deaf.
When she calmed down, I resituated the phone against my ear, just in time to hear a deep voice say, “What are you in here screaming about babe?”
I chuckled. “Tell Jase I said what’s up.”
Kelly relayed the message, and they giggled and talked amongst themselves for a few seconds. I shook my head. Even after a year of being together, they were still head over heels in love. Probably something to do with the fact that Jase was fucking the shit out of my cousin every chance he got, according to our weekly girl chats.
My mind drifted to the man I would like to be tangled up in the sheets with. Normally, I would lay it all on the table, make my interest known. I was a grown-ass woman, after all. But…he worked with me. More than that, he was my direct boss.
Maybe my cousin could give me some advice. She and Jase had first met as co-models while shooting a catalogue for a BWWM boxed set.
“Hey, I have a question,” I began, then added, “for both of you.”
“Both of us?” Kelly queried.
“Yep. So put me on speaker.”
Kelly quickly said, “Okay, you’re on.”
“What’s up?” Jase asked.
“Don’t judge me, but, I’m crushing super hard on my new boss,” I revealed. It felt liberating to say it out loud to someone else. “I wanna to make a move, but I don’t know about mixing work with pleasure. Any advice for me since you guys met at work?”
There was a beat of silence on the other end of the line. Eventually, Jase spoke first.
“If you want my honest opinion, I say go for it. Life is too short, and we have no control over where we meet people.”
“Very true,” Kelly agreed. “Plus, you never know, he might be feeling the same way and just be too scared to act on his feelings.”
“Gee, why does that sound so familiar?” Jase asked, voice dripping with sarcasm.
I knew all too well how scared and closed off to her feelings Kelendria had been. I was the one who had to sit on the phone with her for hours and listen, after all.
“Oh, hush,” Kelly admonished, but the adoration in her voice was unmissable. “But Jase is right. Go for it. Shoot yo’ shot, girl!”
The three of us laughed in unison.
I chatted with Kelly for a bit longer, promising to come out West and visit she and Jase real soon, then ended the call and got ready for bed.
As I lay in the dark, staring up at the ceiling, my mind drifted to Oden. Was he thinking about me right now? Did he want me even half as badly as I wanted him?
