Page 3 of Teddy Sinatra: Go Your Own Way
Teddy looked up and saw a blast from the past standing near his table. His bodyguard had stood up and stopped her from completely approaching him, but it was undeniable who she was: A gorgeous lady he used to know intimately, and one he had actually considered marrying, if he was ever to marry at all, before he met Nikki.
But there she was, in every ounce of her gorgeous flesh, after all these years.
As if he didn’t have enough shit on his plate already.
CHAPTER TWO
“Did you see him?”
“See who?” Quinnesa “Quinn” Crawford was looking around her friend to see who she meant.
Andie Daniels had just entered the bar and was now sitting at Quinn’s table. “You mean to tell me you’ve been here waiting all this time and you don’t see him?”
“See who, Ann? Who? It would help if you told me who I’m supposed to have seen.”
“Teddy child.” Andie slung her long blonde hair behind her back. “Teddy is in this bar. That’s who!”
“Teddy? What’s he doing here? Is Nikki with him?”
Ann gave Quinn a hard look. “Why would I be so concerned about Teddy being in this place if Nikki was with him? What’s wrong with you, Quinn?”
“I’m tired for one thing. I had a long day. Are you trying to say Teddy’s here with another woman? Is that what you mean?”
“Finally she gets it!”
Now Quinn was intrigued. “Where girl?” She was looking around everywhere.
Ann nodded her head in a direction that was across the restaurant. When Quinn saw Teddy seated at a table with a woman standing beside him, and they seemed in a deep conversation, her eyes stretched. “I don’t know her. You know her?”
“No I don’t know that heifer.”
“Stop being so rude. Maybe Nikki knows her,” Quinn said.
“I doubt that. And look at how cozy they are with one another. Nikki don’t know that woman.”
But Teddy knew her. He knew her well. He even waved his bodyguard off and stood up to greet her, another point that Quinn and Ann noticed too. “He never stood up for us,” Ann said.
“He stands up for Nikki though.”
“That’s his wife. He’s supposed to stand up for her. But who’s that chick?”
Her name was Caitlan Downs and Teddy was so surprised to see her that before he knew it they were hugging, which caused Quinn and Ann to stare even harder.
Teddy couldn’t believe how little she had changed. “Haven’t changed a bit,” he said to her.
“But you have,” she said to him. “Looking even more burdened down than you used to. I don’t know why you let your father work you so hard.”
She thought he was a shipping magnate who worked his father’s massive import/export business. She had no idea, just like many of the previous women he dated, what he truly did for a living.
“Mind if I sit down?”
He did mind, because he needed to leave, but they had split on good terms. He wanted to keep it cordial with her. And it actually felt good to see her again. “Sure.”
Although he didn’t assist her with her chair the way she was accustomed to, she was at least glad he allowed her a few minutes of what was obviously his busy schedule. “What’s with the bodyguard?” she asked him as they sat down and the bodyguard went back to his own table.
“Nothing at all. Just work. How have you been, Cait?”
“Good.” Then her forced smile left and her hard blue eyes turned sad. “Not so good.”
