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see you again. NG. Xo
    Oh my! And the hug and kiss he signed off with…oh, yes, please.
    “What did I tell you?” Olivia shot me a glance. “He’s hot for you! Didn’t even wait the required number of hours before contacting you again. Bet he can't even focus on work today.”
    “ Olivia, you’re being over imaginative. Why would a hot guy like Nicholas Gallagher be interested in a plain boring and old woman like me? I'm sure he dates pretty younger women, tall and skinny models and other equally gorgeous rich and famous women. He’s just trying to be nice and show us around New York.”
    Wearing only a bra and panties, I cocked my head and appraised my reflection in the mirror. The years had been kind to my skin, it was practically wrinkle free and luckily I drank a lot of water, so I didn’t have much cellulite to complain about. But my body was rounder and fuller than what I would have liked it to be, with an ample bosom and behind. This was all made worse by the fact that I was short. Not a good combination. Especially if I had to compete with beautiful tall blonds like Irene. I was stuffed from the get go. A new pair of jeans, despite good intentions and advertising, was certainly not going to add a few inches to my short frame, no matter how much wishful thinking I applied.
    A small voice in my head chimed in: Not if you don’t let it. You can be fabulous; you just have to try harder.
    Yeah, right. Harder than most women. At forty, I was a bit too old for four-inch stilettos to rescue me.
    Olivia picked up on my insecurities. “You’re gorgeous, Mom. I'm sure Nick can see that. He is a man of substance. When he looks through his camera lens he wants to capture true beauty, nothing fake and botoxed. You are a natural beauty, inside and out. How can he not see that?”
    Like your father? What if he finds me unappealing like your father did?
    “When I look at you, I see kindness and compassion, grace and softness, integrity and just a touch of quirkiness. You possess truly beautiful qualities any man would love to be around.” Her eyes met mine in the mirror. “And you don’t scrub up too badly either,” she added with a cheeky smile to lighten the mood.
    “ Olivia…” My eyes misted up.  
    “Don’t get all teary now; it'll ruin your make-up. Then you will look like an old hag,” she joked. “The jeans are a ‘ yes’, and if you wear them with those new boots, it will give you a bit of extra height. Now we just need a sexy top. Not too revealing, you have to keep him guessing what’s underneath.” It came naturally to her – the fashion sense and the advise-giving.
    If only she knew he already had a pretty good idea of what was under my top. My cheeks flushed as I remembered his hands on me, tweaking my nipples. Such sweet torture. I’d wear anything to get him to go there again. God, I felt like a slut, but I couldn’t help it; I wanted Nick’s hands all over my body!

 
    Chapter Ten
    Nick
    “Sarah, honey, please do your beloved Uncle a huge favor. I know you like Olivia, so how about after we’ve had dinner with the lovely ladies tonight, you take Olivia out for a night on the town? My driver will be at your disposal. What do you say?” I coaxed, holding my breath for her answer.
    Since our evening on Broadway, I’d taken all three ladies to dinner every evening after that, ending it with a chaste kiss on Natalie’s cheek before returning to my bed alone with an iron rod in my pants. I need to be alone with Natalie tonight . I ached to touch her again. In intimate ways.
    “ You really like Natalie, huh?” Sarah asked with a laugh. Luckily she couldn’t see my face as I scrambled for an answer.
    “Uh…well…yeah, she’s different. I like that.” I let out a deep breath.
    Yes, there were certainly things about my new friend I liked a lot. I hadn’t looked forward to seeing a woman this much, ever. Usually it was really easy to wait the precursory two to three days before