Sleeping with the Sultan. ALEXANDRA SELLERS
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in the bed.
“Oh, sorry, darling, I’m in Makeup! Are you in bed? I forgot how early it was,” Jenny lied cheerfully.
“In a pig’s eye,” Dana muttered direfully.
“Is he there?” her friend hissed excitedly. “I really actually phoned thinking you wouldn’t be home, to be honest.”
“No, he is not here!” Dana told her indignantly. “Give me a break! I only met the man last night.”
“Ha. That kiss had been building up steam for longer than a few hours. That kiss had History.”
Dana shivered. “It didn’t have steam at all,” she protested weakly. “It was all set decoration, entirely for the multitude.”
“Balls. Sorry, love, but you could see the heat rising. Everybody was absolutely entranced.”
She had certainly felt the heat. Her whole body seemed to liquefy as his lips smothered hers, and then turn to scalding steam. She had never experienced such a transformation in her emotions in all her life before. She could barely remember now how they had got off the stage and back to their seats again. She could still hear the cheers, but why the crowd had got so excited by a kiss, she couldn’t guess. Something to do with his magnetism, she supposed.
“It didn’t make the morning editions, of course, but it’ll be in the Standard and the Mail for sure,” Jenny informed her gleefully. “I’ve already been called by both papers, for the background. They’ll be calling you in a minute, I bet.”
On cue, the phone gave the Call Waiting beep in Dana’s ear. “Hell,” she said mildly. “That’s one of them now. What did they ask you?”
“Oh, the usual—how long you’ve been seeing each other. When you gave Mickey the push.”
Dana rolled her eyes. “Oh, ouch!” This was a complication that hadn’t occurred to her. “I suppose he’ll be furious.”
“It was open to him to get on his horse some time ago, as I recall,” Jenny said pitilessly. “If it’s now come to a point where he’s made to look redundant, whose fault is that?”
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