CHAPTER 26

“I told you every thing was going to work out for the best right?”

“That you did, that you did.” He replied, taking a swig from his bottle while I took a swig from my fruit juice. By now, the bottles were almost empty but apparently, Russell had reserves, another bottle of wine and another carton of fruit juice were seated on the round table by the corner and once we exhausted the first one, Russel was quick to open the other.

“You really weren’t planning on returning back to the party anytime soon were you? I asked Russell.

“Nope.” He replied truthfully. “I was planning to spend the night all alone, drinking wine and staring at the beautiful night sky.”

“I mean the sky Is beautiful.” I pointed out. “But come on, there was no was no way you planned to finish two bottles of red all on your own.”

“Not really. I was hoping that a young and beautiful woman named Elisa would join me and keep me company while I tried.”

“Oh please.”I replied, shoving him playfully and we both laughed.

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