He let out a sigh and looked up at the bar she could tell his mind wasn’t on the menu. He stared down at the menu with a small frown on his face. Margot shook her head and walked back to her seat.Īs Margot shimmied up onto her barstool, she couldn’t help but glance at the guy next to her. “If you say hi to him-just hi, that’s all you have to do-I’ll let you pay for your wine.”
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“Okay fine, I’ll give you free food,” Sydney said. You need some stress relief! Come on, it’ll be fun. “Who cares how old he is? I’m just telling you to talk to the man, not have babies with him. What is he, like twenty-six? Twenty-seven? Way too young for me!” “Oh good Lord, my answer is definitely no. Black, warm brown skin, a slightly scruffy beard, kind of dorky-looking, but in a good way. She looked over at the bar and saw the guy Sydney was talking about. “Are you going to just keep this up until I give in someday?” Sydney had been trying this for months now. And because you love me, you’ll take advantage of this.” You didn’t even glance at him when he sat down, but that guy who sat down next to you is adorable. Why are you asking me this, here, right now?” This either meant something very good or very bad. Sydney stopped her outside of the kitchen. “Loved the arancini, Charlie,” Margot said. On the way back to the bar, she poked her head into the kitchen to say hi to Charlie, the chef at The Barrel. She touched up her lipstick and walked out of the bathroom. That’s probably why she’d managed to keep her cool with her brother-she had special powers on good-hair days, she was almost positive. Well, even though she was exhausted, at least her hair looked good today. When she came out of the stall, she looked at herself in the mirror. Margot slid her phone in her jacket pocket and went to the bathroom. Someone called Sydney’s name at the door, and she came out from behind the bar.
“Maybe if they knew me well enough? If I trusted them enough?” “Well, other than me, and I don’t have time for that, either.” “You would never let anyone else plan a vacation for you,” Sydney said. What I need is someone else to plan it for me.” I just want to be on vacation, without having to deal with any of the decisions that go into that. “That sounds incredible, but I don’t have time-or the mental energy-to actually plan a vacation. You need a real sit on the beach, go out to dinner without it being a work dinner, wander around a city for fun, no checking your work emails at seven p.m. “That wasn’t a vacation, you were working the whole time. Sydney came back over to take the drink order of a new person who had just sat down next to Margot, and then poured more wine in Margot’s glass. She would just deal with these emails tonight and then this new person tomorrow and she would figure it all out. No, she wasn’t going to do that now, remember? If only her brother had checked with her schedule and. This was especially important since she’d have to spend her Monday-and much of the upcoming week-training two new staff members. She should deal with some of these emails that had come in over the weekend, and get responses ready to go out on Monday morning. Margot pulled her phone out as she sipped her wine and snacked. But when Luke is revealed to be Margot's newest employee, what was meant to be a no-strings-attached one-night-stand suddenly becomes much more complicated.īelow, find a first look of "Drunk on Love," including an exclusive reveal of its vibrant cover - which makes us want to grab a gold wine goblet a la "Love Is Blind." Berkley / Penguin Random House Read an excerpt from Jasmine Guillory's new novel, 'Drunk on Love' After Margot and Luke meet at a bar, sparks fly. The book centers on Margot Noble, who runs a winery with her brother, and Luke Williams, a man who leaves Silicon Valley behind for a simpler life. Weill's passion for travel and its logistics offers an interesting look at how vacations are really about the journey, and not the destination.Set on a vineyard in California's Napa Valley, "Drunk on Love" is best paired with a Chardonnay - or any beverage that will help you sink into a story. The story follows Weill as he embarks on a new journey via an ocean liner from Britain to pursue a job as a travel consultant in New York. When a boy in a suit and nice shoes, whom Milo imagined lived in a castle with a drawbridge, gets off at the same stop as him, he learns people’s lives might not be as easy to predict as he thought.Īnd, if you're in the mood for a memoir filled with travel, consider "All Abroad: A Memoir of Travel and Obsession," by Geoffrey Weill. In this picture new book from the Newbery Medal-winning duo, Milo is on a long subway ride with his sister and he passes the time by imagining the worlds of other passengers on the train.
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