14

Friday night

She had a good time at dinner with Bruno and wished as they kiss goodbye that she didn't have to go but she does and pulls back from him and tells him don't be late picking me up and he tells her not a chance beautiful they kiss once more before she leaves him in the hotel lobby and gets into the SUV that Drake has sent for her.

She is met by Drake when she gets to his house and he says you look great let me show you around.

His house looks great and she tells him that and then he shows her into his bedroom and he jumps on the bed and turns to her and asks if she wants to join him she laughs and tells him no and he sighs and as they walk back downstairs he offers her a drink she asks for a ginger ale and he laughs and says c'mon loosen up she shakes her head and tells him I don't drink alcohol when i'm working he shrugs his shoulders and gets her a ginger ale.

The party was lit she knew a lot of the guests from doing photo shoots with them and she had gotten great shots that she believed Drake would be happy with.

She looks at her watch and sees she has 25 minutes to go and she'll be done.

She goes to the bathroom and when she comes out sees Drake leaning against the wall across from it and he says hey and moves closer to her as she starts to walk away from the bathroom and asks if she's enjoying herself she tells him it's a great party and he says yeah and moves closer to her pushing her into the wall and says to her as he strokes her shoulders how about we go have a private party and he leans down and whispers in her ear in my bedroom she pushes him away she can tell he's drunk and tells him no you know i'm not interested he pushes back into her and kisses her hard and she pulls away and pushes him hard making him stumble back into the wall and tells him to get the hell away from her!

She stays clear of Drake for the last 10 minutes she has to stay for and continues to take photos and is relieved when it's midnight she goes to Drake who is sitting on a sofa with girls around him and tells him i'm done enjoy the rest of your night and walks away he catches up with her as she opens his front door and says you sure you wanna go we can still party together she rolls her eyes and tells him that is the last thing I want to do with you and walks out glad to see Bruno waiting, standing by his car and gets in his car without saying a word.

She was pissed off was all he could think Bruno knew that look well he had pissed her off enough times to know it and wondered what had happened as she had left him earlier happy.

She was quiet too quiet on the way back to the hotel and it worried him and he says so we going to my room and she says fine.

When they get into his room he pours champagne that he'd ordered before going to pick her up and hands her a glass and joins her on the sofa and asks her what or who has pissed you off tonight.

She puts her camera bag down on the floor beside her and takes a drink of champagne and slips her shoes off and although she doesn't like to lie she knows if she tells him what happened with Drake he would hit the roof so she tells him just too many stupid drunk people in one place.

He doesn't believe her he can feel she's holding back and he says ok i'll buy that as part of the reason but not the main reason, talk to me, tell me what's wrong.

She puts her glass down and gets up and walks to the window and raising her voice says dammit just drop it ok i've had my fucking fill of pushy guys tonight please don't be 1 of them.

He puts his glass down and goes to her and turns her around gently, rests his hands on her waist and asks her who was pushy with you tonight baby.

It was his gentleness that broke her silence and she tells him what had happened with Drake.

He had hid his anger, well most of it he had only needed to really know if Drake had hurt her she had told him no.

He'd managed to talk her into watching tv and had held her in his arms on the sofa where she fell asleep.

His last thought before falling asleep with her was that Drake had better watch his back and he was gonna be there with her at the photo shoot with that mother fucker this morning.