Free Romance: My Italian Prince, Undercover Love: Sweet Romantic Comedy by JASMIN JACOBS Page B

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    “Fantastic Vanessa, I’m glad you asked. It’s all about finding your inner voice you know,” He said in a matter-of fact voice and beamed happily. “I’m so glad you’re here Vanessa, now I begin to think it’s the universe who has interfered and sent you here so I can truly apologize to you.”
     
    “Oh, just forget about it, It’s all forgotten Mitch,” Vanessa told him and patted his bare shoulder awkwardly in a motion to try to emphasize how very fine everything was between them.
     
    “Oh, great! But it’s important for your inner journey to see face to face with your demons. I thank you for forgiving me Vanessa. Mitch then kissed her hand too and with closed eyes, he put his hands together over his chest and nodded gracefully.
     
    “ Namaste Vanessa. N amaste , Katherine.”
     
    “Oh my god! Mitch DeLeo kissed me! Kat sounded as she was in shock and her cheeks flushed bright red.
     
    “I cannot believe you did that Kat, Vanessa gave her friend a disgusted look.
     
    “Did what?” Kat looked completely unaware of what she meant.
     
    “Behaving like a star-struck teenager, he’s a messed up addict with a strange attitude toward women.”
     
    “Right,” Kat nodded and looked a little ashamed. “But God was he good looking!”
     
    “Katherine!”
     
    “Oh, ok but you have to admit he had lost a lot of weight and he didn't look at all stressed out as you mentioned he was when you saw him.
     
    “Kat, I’m serious, stop complimenting him. The man OD’d on magic mushrooms for god’s sake.”
     
    “You mean he got a bellyache from all the Magic Banana Bread he ate,” Kat gave Vanessa a friendly push and laughed.
     
    Vanessa couldn’t help but laugh too. It was quite funny after all and now when Mitch seemed all healthy it must be okay to laugh about it.
     
    “What a drama-queen!” They both giggled so hard they had to leave the garden not to disturb the others doing their trikonasana with full concentration.
     
    In the cafeteria, they sat down and ordered the Veggie of today which for Vanessa looked the same as the Veggie of yesterday and the day before that, a salad with quinoa, tofu, and beans. For dessert, they had a raw-food carrot-cake.
    “Oh look Kat, tomorrow they serve basil pucks !” Vanessa studied the week’s menu and was overjoyed when she saw something different on it.
     
    “Basil pucks? Sounds weird,” Kat stated and they both began giggle again.
     
    “You know what we should do, Green? Try and get a look what’s it like over there,” Kat gestured towards the gated enclosure within the resort where the A-list stars supposedly lived at.
     
    “We could walk past and just casually peek?” Kat giggled.
     
    “I’ve tried,” Vanessa said regretfully, the security people just shoo you away.”
     
    “Typical.” Kat said.
     
    “ Surely, it can’t be only Mitch who’s a celebrity here. The place was supposed to be jammed packed with A-listers,” Kat sounded disappointed.
     
    “I’ve heard some rumors going around that Angelina and Brad stayed at the Ultra last month,” Vanessa said in a gossip-drenched voice and eager to give Kat some happy news in the celebrity department.
     
    The truth was Vanessa had secretly begin thinking that there weren’t any celebrities at the Garden at all, apart from Mitch then obviously. That is was all a PR trick to get people like her and Kat sign up to the ridiculously expensive programs. All though she had her hopes up yesterday when a celeb where to join in on the group class and it was a lot of hush-hush about it. However, in the end it was just a Victoria's Secret model who had held up the entire self-esteem group by making everyone sign individual confidentiality agreements. Then she’d spelled her name wrong and we all had to change Candy to Candie and initial it. Kat laughed so hard when Vanessa retold the story she spilled out her healthy smoothie on the floor, which made them laugh even