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on your mind.” She brushed her fingers across her face.
    “You weren’t exactly into me in the
car. I figured you’d like it better if I left you alone.”
    “Whatever,” she waved her hand,
gazing at the drink in her hand.
    “You’re upset. What happened?” Jake tipped
her chin up before he downed the rest of his Cosmo.
    “Nothing.” She avoided his gaze.
    “I need another drink.”
    “I think you need some food. Where
is it?”
    He shrugged his shoulders. Grace
hesitated to explore the house for fear of running into Gunther, or worse, Elsa,
again. But Jake was getting plastered, and she needed to get something into his
stomach. “There, there,” Jake said, pointing.
    Grace took his hand and pulled him
to the hors d’oeuvres table . She
picked up a plate.
    “What do you like?” He mumbled
something unintelligible. His glazed look told her the alcohol was taking
effect. “Some of everything then.” She picked up a pair of tongs and piled up
cheese puffs, cold jumbo shrimp, stuffed mushrooms, mini quiche, and crudités on the plate.
    Then she had to find a place to sit.
“Come over here.” She grabbed his lapel and pulled him over to a table. He took
a healthy swig of his drink. “These are amazing,” he said, licking his lips.
    Her gazed rested on his tongue for a
moment. Stop looking at him like that. Gracie
shoved a cheese puff in his mouth.
    He chewed quickly and swallowed. “What
was that?”
    “Cheese puff. Like it?”
    “Yeah but not as much as the
Cosmos,” he wandered toward the bar with Gracie right behind. She stuffed a
baby carrot in her mouth while Jake got a refill.
    “You shouldn’t have another one of
those.” She reached for the glass.
    Jake snatched his drink away from
her grasp and raised it high above her head. “I’m a grown man. I’ll drink what
I want. Why do you care, anyway? You don’t even like me.”
    “I didn’t say that.”
    “Didn’t have to.” He took a sip.
    “Here, eat something.”
    He scowled at her. “Are you my
mother?”
    “The food is good.”
    “Then why don’t you eat it?” he
challenged her.
    Her stomach was in a knot. Seeing
Gunther made her appetite go south. She was barely able to choke down that raw
veggie. I can’t tell him. “I’m not
hungry.”
    “That makes two of us.”
    Grace put the plate down on the
table and sank into a chair that backed up to a wall. The loud music, the crowd…everything
grated on her nerves. She’d been humiliated again by this man and his fiancée,
too. Gathering what little dignity she had left, she pushed to her feet. “I’m
leaving.”
    Jake raised his eyebrows. “The night
is young.” He made a sweeping gesture, almost knocking a drink out of the grasp
of one of the women who had been talking to him before.
    “I think you should, too,” she said,
taking his arm.
    “Now you want me, eh?” He snickered
then chugged the rest of his Cosmo. “Guess we’re leaving.”
    When the cold air hit Grace in the
face, the effect of the alcohol she’d consumed wore off. But not for Jake. He
stumbled along, hanging on to her to keep from falling. They found Bobby’s limo.
He opened the door, and Jake fell in with Grace sliding in behind him.
    “Why did you come with me if you
hate me so much?”
    “I don’t hate you…I…just…you were
pretty harsh, nasty…”
    “Oh. When I first met you. Yeah. I was kinda dumb, wasn’t I? I’m sorry. No hard feelings.”
    Bobby put the car in gear and pulled
out of the driveway.
    “Let’s kiss and make up.” Jake
pulled her to him roughly and planted his lips on hers. Grace froze, letting
Jake explore her mouth. Even drunk, he
can kiss. In a minute, she regained her senses and pushed away, hugging the
other side of the car.
    “See. There you go. Not liking me
again.” He slapped his leg.
    “I let you kiss me. What more do you
want?”
    He laughed. “You’re kidding, right?
You…in that dress? And you ask me what more do I want? I want it all, baby.