Free Yearning Devotion by Rachael Orman

polished
and dolled up.  Gwen turned in a slow circle, “Ta Da!”
    “Fabulous darling.” McKayla said in
a fake English accent. She pulled Gwen close for a quick ass grab and kissed
her neck. “I’m sure you’ll be the prettiest lady there.”
    Gwen moaned but stepped back, no
ruining all the work she’d put into getting ready by getting frisky with
McKayla. After exchanging good byes, Gwen went out to meet the car waiting to
drive her to pick up her date, Isaac. Once they were both in the car, the drive
headed to the event.
    “You look fabulous, as always.”
Isaac said as he ran his eyes over her. He was in his late 50s, married for a
year now to a gold digging woman, who refused to go to any business events with
him. So if he wanted company he normally hired Gwen, his former bed playmate,
to join him. Gwen had refused to keep their relationship sexual when he got
married. She never slept with married men. She didn’t have many moral
standards, but this was one she had and had never broken it.
    “Thank you. As do you.” Gwen asked
as she took in his standard black tuxedo for the event. He had black hair
liberally scattered with white hair. She didn’t exactly know what it was that
he did. She only knew that he owned his own business and made more money than
he knew what to do with.
    “There has been a slight change in
venue tonight. So instead of going to the yacht club we are going to a personal
residence. Last minute cancellation.” Gwen simply nodded at this, she didn’t
particularly care where they were going. Isaac straightened his tie a bit. They
chatted about little things the rest of the drive, which wasn’t very long. 
They arrived at a skyscraper Gwen didn’t know the name of and took the elevator
to second to top floor.
    The doors opened to a lobby where
there was two doors. Gwen assumed one lead to the stairwell so the only other
door had to be where the party was. Isaac pushed open the door and they walked
into a large open foyer that connected to a long wide open room that was almost
wall to wall windows. There was a double doors that were open leading out into
a large open balcony with a small dance floor and DJ set up out there. It was September
so the weather was perfect for an outdoor party. The apartment was sparsely
furnished leaving plenty of space for the 50 or so people there to mingle and
move about. Gwen slipped her arm through Isaac’s as they made their way around
the party. She mostly looked around and nodded when socially appropriate. She
wasn’t there to converse with people, just to be the beautiful woman Isaac had
brought with him. She sipped on the wine that one of the passing waiters had
given her.   They had been at the party for over two hours before Isaac led her
outdoors.
    “Gwen, I’d like to introduce you to
the host of this party. He was generous enough to allow us to move the party to
his apartment when the other location fell through.” Isaac said leading her to
a group of men in tuxes.  Gwen looked up after carefully stepping over a cord
on the ground to meet a pair of green eyes. She paused right where she was
standing. What was Cole doing here? “Gwen this is Cole Cressley. Cole, my date
for the night, Gwen.”
    “Well, now this is interesting.”
Cole’s eyes had turned a dark green as he got over his shock at seeing her
here. “How very nice to meet your date, Isaac. Where is the wife?”
    “You know how she is. She didn’t
want to go out tonight.” Isaac didn’t notice that Cole had not taken his eyes
off Gwen.
    “Mind if I take your date for a
dance?” Cole held out his hand for Gwen. 
    “Sure.” Isaac just shrugged and sat
down at a table before striking up a conversation. He turned his back before
Gwen had even had a chance to speak.
    “Here I thought you didn’t date. It
seems like you lied to me.” Cole said quietly as he led Gwen towards the dance
floor.
    “And here I thought you’d run off
to deal with an emergency.” Gwen