Cocaine Princess here.
So there I was still with the red bra and panties in my hands and lawyer-guy holding out his hand for me to take it. 'What do you say?' lawyer-guy asked. At that point my brain must have started functioning because I was finally able to put back the lingerie. 'You're not going to buy it?' he asked. 'It's going to take me awhile to try it on and see if I like it or not. I'll do it some other time,' I explained. 'I don't mind waiting.' lawyer-guy replied. I'm such an idiot, why did I say it was for me? I should have lied and said I was buying it for someone. As I put it back on the rack I asked 'so where shall we go?' 'How about Truffles?' 'Wonderful,' I replied but inside I was thinking oh my God! He had to pick a restaurant that's at a hotel. He smiled at me, took my hand and then interlocked his arm with mine and together arm and arm we left the lingerie department at The Bay. Outside amongst the throngs of people trying to see the spectacular window decorations The Bay had created, lawyer-guy helped me into the limo and told his driver where to head next.
We went to the poshes area of the city: Chanel and Louis Vuitton just to name a few are here. Along with the high end designer stores are the pricey hotels. Whenever a celebrity is staying in this part of the city they always stay here and paparazzis will be lurking not only around the hotel but itself. Truffles is located on the 3rd floor of the hotel. I didn't bother to look around if there were any celebrities. I had enough of a hard time concentrating and I kept on thinking is it ethical for a lawyer to take his client out for a non-business related lunch? Lawyer-guy is quite popular in the social and business scene so I couldn't also help but wonder if a paparazzi was maybe watching him and secretly taking our picture and come Sunday morning our picture will be printed in the gossip section of the newspaper. Our host took us to our table. Lawyer-guy took my pashmina and made a comment on my outfit 'Wow you light up the whole room.' 'Thank you.' I replied as he seated me. I quickly picked up my menu to avoid any eye contact. 'What am I doing?' I said to myself. 'Why the hell did I agree to have lunch with a man who is interested in me? A married man. 'Since I've called it a day how about we have a glass of wine in celebration of my firm's win,' said lawyer-guy. 'Their wine list is fantastic.' I explained to lawyer-guy that I wasn't much of a drinker since alcohol made me sleepy. 'I may fall asleep on you,' I innocently said. I swear to all my loving and loyal readers I didn't mean anything by it nor was I giving out any signals. I'm telling the truth, alcohol does make me sleepy and I didn't want to be yawning before our lunch arrived. Anyways you must be wondering how lawyer-guy responded. This is what he said, 'I don't mind. I can watch you sleep.' I looked right into his eyes. Lawyer-guy wasn't kidding, he was dead serious. I opened my mouth but nothing came out so I buried my head in my menu. The waiter came by and lawyer-guy placed our drink order and then we ordered our lunch. I had the penne with fresh tomato sauce while he ordered the chicken curry and basmati rice. 'Damn, I didn't see that on menu, how did I miss it?' I asked myself. I didn't bother to change my order. The faster my lunch came the faster lunch would be over. Lawyer-guy picked up his wine glass and stated 'let's make a toast.' I picked up my glass and he continued. 'To health, happiness, love and luck. May we be blessed with all.' Our glasses clinked and I just had a little sip and lawyer-guy was staring at me as I did. I looked outside the window and it was starting to snow. I prayed for a snow storm not to come otherwise I would be held up in this hotel with him. Although I'm guessing at that point lawyer-guy must have been praying for the opposite. We started talking about almost everything and half-way through lunch I started to ease up and I felt a little relaxed. It occurred to me lawyer-guy is a popular lawyer, his firm has handled quite a few big time cases that have been in the papers and in the news. He's well known in the community. We are in a public but elegant place where anybody can see us. We walked out together from The Bay. We're not meeting in secret. If he wasn't worried about what people may think why am I so worried? Perhaps I've mis-judged this situation? Perhaps I'm taking his every word and twisting it into something sexual. I've known lawyer-guy for quite awhile and all he did was just ask a casual acquittance who is also his client out to lunch. No harm there. But I was wrong. Let this be a lesson to you all, always trust your gut! As we were leaving the restaurant it was starting to snow even more now. Lawyer-guy turned to me and said 'the snow is coming down hard. How about we wait it out?' 'Should we go back to the restaurant or how about the lobby bar?' I suggested. 'My firm keeps a suite in this hotel for out-of-town guests' he informed me. 'It has a beautiful view of the city and I know for a fact it's not in use. How about I show you it and we can talk some more until the snow dies down?'
XOXOXOXO,
Cocaine Princess
