Chapter One-hundred and two.

The dinner had been at an average but high end restaurant. I had taken a cab to go and meet Jeffery. I declined when he said he would come pick me up. The money Gabriel brought that morning would pay for dinner and get them a room should the need arise.

Everything was beginning to look like it would fall into place.

The dinner itself was uneventful, I just listened to Jeffrey and pretended to be sad from time to time, he felt it was his responsibility to cheer me up. Poor lamb, love indeed made fools of the best of men, if I wanted to, and I wanted to, I would have him eating out of my hands. Time to play coy and invite him to the hotel room. Gabriel was going to be mad but as he always said, money needed to be made.

"Jeffrey, I know it is a lot of presumption on my part, but can you stay with me tonight? I do not want to be alone. You can totally say no of course, I just want to hold. It has been so long." I said to Jeffrey and looked away, like I was embarrassed by what I just said