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Victoria pulled a playfully dramatic sad face.
“I’ll send you a bottle and you can have a drink and think of me.”
“I’ll turn the central heating up high to get the ambiance just right as I toast you.” Victoria played along.
Jake laughed, “And then we’re launching a new music and video app for the android market, so I guess I’ll need to be seen using that and no doubt partying with it in an open top car or boat.”
“Ugh it just gets worse! How can you possibly stand it?” She said gently slamming her hand down on the table in mock despair.
Jake laughed, he liked her sense of humour.
As dessert arrived the conversation swapped across to Victoria. As she sipped the remainder of her wine, having declined a dessert, she watched as Jake ate heartily at his chocolate pudding.
“You enjoy your food.” Victoria thought but actually managed to say out loud. She blushed when she realised she had said it.
“Yes I do, but I’ll be sorry tomorrow morning when I will drag my sorry arse out of bed at six thirty to hit the hotel gym to work it off.”
“You like the gym huh?” It was more of a rhetorical question - she could see Jake worked out a lot by his sculptured biceps which pushed against his shirt sleeves and the broadness of his chest.
Jake smiled. He was glad she noticed, but somehow the conversation had moved around to him again and he didn’t want that, he wanted to hear more about Victoria. “Don’t try to deflect me. Tell me more about you.”
Victoria thought for a moment, what was she supposed to say when someone asked a question like that? How much information did they really want to know – she was sure he didn’t want to know that she loved to sing at the top of her voice to blaring loud music in the car! Or that she hated really expensive chocolates but would give just about anything for a bar of Dairy Milk or a Twix. “Well I’ve been working in marketing for about eight years.”
“Do you like it?” Jake asked before he popped in another mouthful of pudding.
“Yes I do, it’s just a shame that it’s quite a closed market really. There’s not many openings for promotion and so it’s hard to climb up the ladder. But I’m hopefully getting there.”
“And you’re getting married?” He said pointing his spoon towards her engagement ring.
“Yes in a few months time.” She smiled as she moved the ring around on her finger. She had always wanted a big white wedding ever since she was a little girl, she thought that every little girl probably did, and soon she would be having hers with an incredible winter wonderland theme.
“No last minute nerves?”
“No, why would there be? We have been together for nearly ten years, we met when we were at University together and things just kind of went from there. As for the wedding, everything’s arranged, I did that last year when Mark proposed. It’s just final numbers to be confirmed now, and that’s it.”
“And your fiancé, what’s he like?” Jake asked as he pretended to be more interested in his dessert than her answer.
“He’s a nice guy. He’s a banker in private finance, a real city guy, born and bred in London.”
Jake thought about that for a moment, London was nice, great even with its amazing history and beautiful buildings, but he couldn’t imagine being without the Miami sun and sea.
“So you’re really off the market and getting married huh?” Jake sighed dramatically putting his fork down letting the last few bites of his dessert beat him.
Victoria nodded and smiled.
“Well that’s just my loss then.”
“Oh I don’t know about that. From the research I did on you today I would say you are doing pretty well as it is, and you don’t need another woman to add to your already long list.” After googling Jake Cumberland when she returned from lunch there were several press articles about his company, but his partying and
“I’ll send you a bottle and you can have a drink and think of me.”
“I’ll turn the central heating up high to get the ambiance just right as I toast you.” Victoria played along.
Jake laughed, “And then we’re launching a new music and video app for the android market, so I guess I’ll need to be seen using that and no doubt partying with it in an open top car or boat.”
“Ugh it just gets worse! How can you possibly stand it?” She said gently slamming her hand down on the table in mock despair.
Jake laughed, he liked her sense of humour.
As dessert arrived the conversation swapped across to Victoria. As she sipped the remainder of her wine, having declined a dessert, she watched as Jake ate heartily at his chocolate pudding.
“You enjoy your food.” Victoria thought but actually managed to say out loud. She blushed when she realised she had said it.
“Yes I do, but I’ll be sorry tomorrow morning when I will drag my sorry arse out of bed at six thirty to hit the hotel gym to work it off.”
“You like the gym huh?” It was more of a rhetorical question - she could see Jake worked out a lot by his sculptured biceps which pushed against his shirt sleeves and the broadness of his chest.
Jake smiled. He was glad she noticed, but somehow the conversation had moved around to him again and he didn’t want that, he wanted to hear more about Victoria. “Don’t try to deflect me. Tell me more about you.”
Victoria thought for a moment, what was she supposed to say when someone asked a question like that? How much information did they really want to know – she was sure he didn’t want to know that she loved to sing at the top of her voice to blaring loud music in the car! Or that she hated really expensive chocolates but would give just about anything for a bar of Dairy Milk or a Twix. “Well I’ve been working in marketing for about eight years.”
“Do you like it?” Jake asked before he popped in another mouthful of pudding.
“Yes I do, it’s just a shame that it’s quite a closed market really. There’s not many openings for promotion and so it’s hard to climb up the ladder. But I’m hopefully getting there.”
“And you’re getting married?” He said pointing his spoon towards her engagement ring.
“Yes in a few months time.” She smiled as she moved the ring around on her finger. She had always wanted a big white wedding ever since she was a little girl, she thought that every little girl probably did, and soon she would be having hers with an incredible winter wonderland theme.
“No last minute nerves?”
“No, why would there be? We have been together for nearly ten years, we met when we were at University together and things just kind of went from there. As for the wedding, everything’s arranged, I did that last year when Mark proposed. It’s just final numbers to be confirmed now, and that’s it.”
“And your fiancé, what’s he like?” Jake asked as he pretended to be more interested in his dessert than her answer.
“He’s a nice guy. He’s a banker in private finance, a real city guy, born and bred in London.”
Jake thought about that for a moment, London was nice, great even with its amazing history and beautiful buildings, but he couldn’t imagine being without the Miami sun and sea.
“So you’re really off the market and getting married huh?” Jake sighed dramatically putting his fork down letting the last few bites of his dessert beat him.
Victoria nodded and smiled.
“Well that’s just my loss then.”
“Oh I don’t know about that. From the research I did on you today I would say you are doing pretty well as it is, and you don’t need another woman to add to your already long list.” After googling Jake Cumberland when she returned from lunch there were several press articles about his company, but his partying and
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