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Ellison
"Hey…” I looked down and met warm brown eyes at the end of the stage. “Come on.” I walked down the stairs and Antonio shrugged off his jacket, then helped me to wear it.
Men were starting to walk out with the girls they had purchased. Some of them were going back to backstage. Some of them made their way out of the auction hall. As we neared the exit, I looked back at the balcony for one last time but there was no one there.
With only Antonio’s jacket around me, I still felt uncomfortable as we walked out of the building, we were nearing his car when my eyes flickered up to meet the cold blue ones. He stood there leaning against Antonio’s car, his hands in his pockets. As much as his posture screamed nonchalance, the set of his jaw and the look in his eyes told a diffe
