After Party

By BJ Martinez

For a very long time Diego has tried to find the right time to tell Anne how he feels. Something always seems to get in the way.
But all that can finally change.
On a night when they are celebrating their biggest success, two long time friends - a handsome, thoughtful Geek and a brilliant and sassy Marketing dynamo - discover that they can deal with the past and explore their true feelings for one another.
On the most important night of his life, can the Geek finally get the girl?

• Language: English
• Publisher: BJ Martinez
• Release date: Jul 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301613137

BJ Martinez

Basically I am left handed and I like to write, doodle and occasionally bake chocolate chip cookies. I do all three well enough to enjoy them.

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AFTER PARTY

by

BJ Martinez

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This story is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Published by BJ Martinez at Smashwords

AFTER PARTY

Copyright 2013 by BJ Martinez

Visit Author’s Website: www.Seraphim7.com

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mela vanwa ilya

Love over all

For those nights when you feel like ordering Chinese Food

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Damnable Time

Time itself

and the damnable fallacy

of fate and man

has in its detestable design,

conspired to keep me from you.

But this I swear,

as sure as the sun rises

I will fling myself

upon the towered waves,

ride the tempest

until the morning comes,

yielding to nothing

but my own fierce desires

to hold you in my arms

and gently kiss away

the lonely tears

until the fire

of your smile

lights my soul.

Things had gone incredibly well. So well, in fact, Diego Bonifacio was waiting - proverbially of course - for the other shoe to drop. His shoes were right were they needed to be, thank you very much. A brand new pair of Francisco Benigno oxfords secured just for the night’s festivities.

Diego was not the sort of guy that paraded about in a tailored Calvin Klein tuxedo and fine, hand made Italian shoes - he was absolutely a work boots, jeans and faded tee shirt brand of man - but he could get used to it.

Standing in the full-length mirror of his hotel room hours earlier he had reluctantly admitted to himself that he looked pretty damned good.

No. His shoes and the rest of his get up was just fine.

It was the sense that none of it was real that persisted. He was just some poor kid from Miami that stayed out of trouble, ate his rice and beans like his mami asked, went to college and worked hard.

So how the hell had he ended up heading up the fastest growing tech start up in the last decade? Any minute now, someone was going to tap him on his shoulder and tell his it was all a joke. Or better yet, a mistake; a clerical error.

We're sorry, you didn't fill out the required forms, sir. You're going to have to start all over again.

He shook the thought off and clenched his fists tightly to stay the light trembling that seemed to tickle them all night. That’s not to say that he was a pessimist, however dark his outlook tended to be, far from it. Diego just had more real world experience with things going awry than with things going smoothly. Fortunately for him and his fledgling company, he was tenacious enough to not let setbacks stop him.

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