Free What happened in Vegas: Didn't Stay In Vegas! by R. Lorelei Page B

hand. He allowed me just enough
movement to grab my purse and I rifled through it with my free hand
finding my phone. I started punching in a text message to
Nick:
    Chanel: CODE BLUE
    Bradley snatched the phone from my hands and
texted:
    Chanel: CANCEL CODE BLUE
    He threw the
phone out of my reach. His eyes were full of emotion and his
fingers began working to wipe the tears from my eyes, “ I don ’ t want him saving you
anymore, don ’ t you understand? No
more code blues. I want to be the one you run to. No more Nick and
no more Maggie. It ’ s just you and
me. ”
    “You
weren ’ t with me two minutes and you ’ ve already hurt
me, ” I whimpered.
    His eyes filled
with his own tears, “ I ’ m sorry,
but you hurt me too. I stupidly pushed you towards Nick because I
wasn ’ t sure what to do. Was it just sex or did he make love
to you? ”
    Numb, my eyes
gave him the answer he wasn ’ t looking for, the
one I couldn ’ t bear to
confess.
    “Answer! ” he seethed.
    “He made love
to me. ”
    “Stay with him
then, we ’ re finished! ” He stormed out of
the loft slamming the door behind him.

 
     
    ~22~
    Everything in me told me not to text Nick, but if I
didn ’ t text him then I knew for sure I would have called
Bradley and I didn ’ t want to do that! I
could only imagine Nick having a field day with this one. He would
be in all of his glory teasing me about this relationship when I
used to do the same thing to him for not having long relationships
with his girlfriends. I texted Nick:
    Chanel: CODE BLUE
    Nick: Again? Do you want me to call you or
go to your loft?
    Chanel: Paddocks
    Nick: When?
    Chanel: ASAP
    Nick: Give me 30
    Chanel: Okay
    I had a few
minutes to spare so I changed into Nick ’ s black
tracksuit for comfort and cleaned the makeup off my face. I threw
on a light coat and walked briskly to the bar leaving Snowball
behind. Deep in thought, I hadn ’ t noticed Nick
parking Jezebel until he was getting out of her. One glance at me
and he commented, “ Don ’ t you look
rough! ” He cloaked his arm around my shoulders and led me
into the bar like we were a couple, “ Let ’ s get you a
drink. ”
    He pulled my
chair out for me and guessed, “ Cosmo? ”
    “No,
Martini. ” He went to the bar and ordered our drinks before
coming back to the table with his clairvoyant observation, “ That ’ s your breakup drink
Coco. He looked into my eyes which transported him to the pits of
my soul. Then he smiled at me, “ Fuck off! You
didn ’ t! ” He went into a full blown Gail of
laughter that bordered on hysterics, “ I ’ m sorry
Coco, and you already broke up with the THROB? ” He
didn ’ t stop, he couldn ’ t stop, he was
laughing too hard.
    I felt
pathetic, but couldn ’ t blame him, so I
elaborated a little more, “ No, I
didn ’ t, HE did. ”
    He regained
control of his laughter when he heard me say that Bradley was the
one. His carefree expression suddenly went dark, replaced with
anger, “ So he fucked you, you two fucked right and then
he left you at the wayside? ”
    “Not
exactly. ”
    “You better
explain quickly before I leave here to go beat the shit out of
him. ”
    I looked up at
the bar, “ She ’ s coming with our
drinks, just a second. ” The waitress placed his Cosmo down on
a doily and then did the same for my Martini before she left us
alone. I took a long sip before starting into my story, “ I invited him to sleep over at my house tonight. We started
talking and I asked why he wasn ’ t at work this
morning. He kept evading the question until finally he admitted to
being in court finalizing his divorce with, ‘ Maggie.' ”
    Nick looked
confused, “ That ’ s good
isn ’ t it? ”
    I took another
long sip of my martini, “ No,
it ’ s not. He never told me that he was married to Maggie
from the Cath lab. The one you said I can ’ t hold a candle
to. You ’ re such a prick by the way!
She ’ s not THAT beautiful! ” I glared at
Nick,