Every Time I Love You

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Author: Heather Graham
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about it, something in the freshness that swirled around her. She gave herself a little shake. If she weren't careful, she'd start believing in destiny. But, damn, it had been a strange day! Not so much because of things that had happened but because of the way she had been feeling.
    “Hey! Get in! It's a cold night, if you haven't noticed!”
    Tina was the one speaking. The back door of Liz's little Volvo swung open and Gayle stepped in and slammed the door. Liz told her Hi through the rearview mirror, and Tina turned around to survey her in the shadows and glares of the streetlights.
    “Happy birthday, kid,” Gayle told her.
    Tina grimaced. “Thirty-five. I'm almost middle-aged.”
    “You are middle-aged,” Liz told her cheerfully.
    “That's okay,” Gayle assured her. “You're aging better than Joan Collins.”
    “I hope so. She's twenty years younger than Joan Collins!” Liz supplied.
    “Just drive, will you?”
    Liz winked to Gayle in the back and turned her attention to the traffic. It was still bad. City traffic was always bad, Gayle decided. Tina quizzed her about the showing, and Gayle filled her in on how she'd rushed around to see that the pictures were hung to their advantage, watching Geoffrey become neurotic, fearing that McCauley would never show up. Tina, who managed the spa where they had all met a few years before, complained about an overweight man who thought she could make him look like Sly Stallone in two weeks.
    “Shall we go for valet parking?” Liz asked. Then she answered her own question. “Oh, of course we should. We're dressed up to kill and Tina isn't getting any younger here.”
    Tina knocked her lightly against the nape. Liz howled softly and laughed as they drove up to the entrance. When the doors opened and Liz turned the key over to the young valet, Gayle mused that they were all dressed up to kill—and that they looked pretty damn good as a threesome. Tina was small and elegant in silver sequins and a white ermine, with midnight hair and eyes that contrasted magnificently with her outfit. Liz—tall, lean, and statuesque—was in green velvet, which was a perfect match for her eyes and an emphasis for her deep auburn hair. Gayle was a tawny blonde in black, not as tall as Liz, not as built as Tina, but somewhere in between.
    Someone on the street whistled at them. They all laughed at one another and went into the building, then up to the club on the twenty-fifth floor.
    It was a perfect night for Tina, Gayle thought. They were seated by the window and had a beautiful view of Richmond. Their captain was extremely attentive. Liz, who had been taking classes, ordered the wine and it was just perfect. Tina and Gayle decided to have the rack of lamb for two, and Liz decided on the salmon. They ordered Caesar salads and crab cocktails, and everything that came to them seemed to taste ambrosial. Liz, the only divorcee among them, amused them with a tale about her new baby-sitter, and Tina talked about the cop with whom she'd had her last date, complaining that he had seemed to consider the night to be target practice.
    “Yet here we are, on the prowl again,” Liz said.
    “We're not on the prowl!” Tina protested. “We're having dinner.”
    “Ah-ha! But we're heading on to the Red Lion afterward,” Liz reminded her.
    “Does that necessarily mean we're out on the prowl?” Gayle asked her.
    “Well, we certainly can't dance with one another,” Tina stated. She grinned. “Face it, men are necessary.”
    “Yes, and you must quit going through them like toilet paper,” Liz said.
    “Would you shush! This is a very elegant place!”
    Gayle laughed at the two of them and sipped her wine, marveling again that Liz had made such a good choice.
    “Personally, I don't know what you're doing out anywhere,” Liz told Gayle. “Geoffrey is so darling. All these years the two of you have been together! Has it always been platonic?”
    “Always,” Gayle said, smiling. “I love

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