Page 4 of Sabastian

“You’ve never saved anything in your life, and the only thing you’re saving for is to buy another expensive car, expensive clothes to impress some man who convinced you to leave one man and go to the next.Are you still over at your mother’s?”

“That’s only temporary, Sabastian,” he said, enunciating each syllable.

“Of course, until you find another sucker like me.My advice is to get your own apartment,” I said, “that’s why I broke up with you.We were not on the same page and not compatible.Now if you think you’re going to persuade me for you to move back in, it’s not happening.”

“To tell you the truth—”

“Well, that will be a first,” I added.

“You’re hurting me, Sam.”

“Get over it, and you’re going to have to tell me the truth later, because I have to get dressed and film what I’m wearing before I head out, so save it for the restaurant, the drinks, and the camera.”

“You’re not going to film me?”

“Yes, I am.If you’re expecting me to pay for your dinner and drinks, I have to get something for that meal, because you eat a lot and you drink more.Remember you’re only a friend at this point, and another thing, don’t block me from meeting or talking to other men.”

“None of my friends, okay.Promise me you won’t date them.”

“I can’t make any promises, but I can tell you one thing, after seeing the crowd you’ve been hanging out with lately, there’s nothing there to make my cock hard.They’re probably just like you, looking for someone to take care of them.Now let me finish getting dressed because it takes time to drive to that restaurant.You said it’s near the Galleria, right?”

“Yeah.I’ll text you the address.It’s inside a plush hotel in River Oaks.”

“How convenient,” I mocked.Robby was up to his old tricks again.

It took me an hour between dressing and filming myself, and the drive from my apartment to reach the River Oaks area with all its high-end stores.It was an upscale restaurant inside an upscale trendy hotel.When I pulled up, it was near a car dealership that sold expensive cars.I wondered if Robby had one of those expensive sports cars with his name on it.I checked, but nothing said this belonged to Robert Grahm on the windshield.After window shopping at the dealership, and dreaming a little, I pulled into the space marked valet.

The valet took my Toyota, and I managed to find the restaurant without any problem.

“I’m looking for a party—”

“Yes, I know the one you’re talking about.”The host bounced along and showed me to a table where six dudes I’d recognized as some of Rob’s friends who had been former lovers and potential victims.It was one dude’s birthday party, and they were already singing and drinking when I strode up to the table.

When they glanced up and smiled as if I was the next meal, I said, “Where’s Rob?”

“He hasn’t arrived yet.You know he’s always fashionably late.”That’s just like him.Late for everything and when he did arrive he had plenty of excuses.I felt uncomfortable pulling out my camera, but I had to get some footage, because looking at the menu, I would need to get as much footage as possible to make it worth my subscribers tuning in.

“Do you mind if I film?”I just asked to be polite.

“No.Go right ahead.I’d like to see myself,” Charlie said.He may have been the cutest one at the table if you liked blonds, but I wasn’t into the opposite of me.I liked dudes with dark hair and olive complexions like myself.He would have to be taller, and a good-looking blond dude to catch my attention because I’d sworn off men for a while because of the bad experience I’d had with Robby.

Strange, but I’d liked him and thought we had something that would last.I was so young and so wrong.The friendship lasted longer than the six months I’d met Robby, and he’d cheated on me after moving in and planning a future together.It was in a restaurant just like this where I’d met him and I thought he was my ride or die lover.

In a sense he was—I rode him until the relationship died six months later when I learned someone else had ridden him hard and put him up wet as they would say in Texas, and when we both discovered we weren’t meant to be together.By that time I was in all kinds of debt because of him, and I’d spent too much time in bed with him and forgot to call in sick, and just like that they fired me from my positions as a buyer for this well-known clothing company, but because everyone liked me, they gave me a good recommendation, and I found another job as a buyer of women’s purses and men’s clothing.

Scrambling to get things together after he’d help deplete my savings, he moved out.Something about me not being able to support his needs.That was why I vowed not to look at another cute guy my age.I couldn’t afford my lifestyle, and his either.Maybe I needed a Daddy too, but looking around at the dudes at this table, I’d rather go it alone.

“If you have to film, then could you just put the camera low so you can’t see my face,” one dude said whom I’d never seen or met before.Taking me back to reality and out of my own thoughts about my time with Robby.Once I got Robby out of my headspace maybe I might be able to enjoy myself.

“Sure.No problem.I have to ask before I start filming.I’ll probably just film the food,” I assured them.If I mentioned the restaurant that could get me more views.I had loads of followers, but my views were dropping off.

“He doesn’t want you to upload this on the media sites, and have his friend wondering what he’s doing here with me when he should be at home,” Charlie said.

Charlie grabbed the guy around his shoulder and brought him close to him, kissed him and then he began feeding him with the same spoon.If they were that close, then why were they fooling around on their significant others?

I didn’t have all the answers because at twenty-five I had a lot to learn, and Robby taught me a lesson I wouldn’t forget.

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