experience, I assure you Mademoiselle. I shall look forward to it,” he said, his eyes once more roving over her face, tracing her lips and skimming her hair.
In that instant, Sherina was grateful for her dark complexion; she would have been blushing otherwise what with the unmistakable heat in Andre’s eyes as he looked at her.
***
Sherina flipped her hair out, grinning at her reflection in the mirror. For the first time in ages, she felt like her old self. She had not gone on a single date since she’d walked in on Darren and Deb several weeks ago and to her surprise, she was so eager for the night to get started.
Her reflection in the mirror showed a young woman of twenty-seven with a firm pointy chin, sparkling brown eyes that suggested she liked to have fun, and a pretty gamine face. Her slim, curvy body was clad in a knee-length, tight-fitting, red sheath gown that accentuated her figure, clung to her hips and exposed riveting lengths of smooth, tanned legs. Her legs were made even longer by the pair of Louboutin sandals on her feet and she completed the ensemble with a small rose tucked into her curls behind her ear.
A glance at her wristwatch told her she had fifteen minutes before she had to meet Andre at the restaurant.
It was at least a fifteen minute drive to Masa, she thought. With a shrug, she picked up her purse and walked downstairs to her car scrolling through her Facebook page as she went. Without warning, the screen filled with an image of Darren and Deb entwined in a passionate embrace their happy faces laughing up at her; it was the display picture on Deb’s page. Naked pain slashed through her as she stared down at the two familiar faces. They were obviously in a relationship! Darren had never come after her because he was lip-smacking, tongue-lolling happy with Deb. It had never been an affair after-all, it was a full-blown relationship!
Her hands trembled as she struggled to push the key into the lock and tears clogged her throat; she determinedly swallowed hard! The keys dropped to the floor and she stooped to pick them up. This time she managed to shove the key into the lock and twisted it in the lock, heaving a sigh as the door opened.
Sherina dove into the car, her entire body trembling as the impact of what she had just learned coursed through her. With shaking hands, she reached for her Blackberry and stared at the picture again. This time, she noticed the tagline; they were getting married!
Sherina shut her eyes in disbelief; surely the fates couldn’t be that cruel. She opened her eyes again and looked at the tag; sure enough it was still there. Deb and Darren were getting married tomorrow!
A small whimper of pain escaped her lips as she deleted her Facebook account with shaky fingers and then folded in on herself in the driver’s seat of her car, rocking to and fro in her seat. Tears leaked out of the corner of her eye and she angrily dashed it away as she started her car; she wasn’t going to turn into a cry-baby just because a pair of cheating bastards who totally deserved each other were tying the knot. She hoped they cheated on each other until death did them part!
She swung into traffic with a wild swerve forgetting to look either way in her angst. Blaring horns warned her too late and she automatically stepped hard onto the accelerator skidding straight across the street and into the next lane. She swerved to avoid a street lamp and then swerved to avoid another oncoming car with blaring horns of its own before finally came to a stop when she brushed up against a tree by the side of the road.
Dizziness crawled at the edge of her vision and Sherina groaned, clutching her head as a pounding headache threatened to split her head in two. She leaned her head against her steering wheel and waited for the dizziness to pass. A voice sounded urgently outside the driver’s window and as though in a daze, she unlocked the door.
“Are you alright?” the man asked urgently, his