Her face turned pink and Gray couldn’t hide his small smirk. She seemed nervous or excited about the fact that he kissed the back of her hand. Funny, gentlemanly gestures were so rare this day-and-age that doing a simple kiss was enough to get a girl to twinge. Hm… maybe he should try it on the other girls. “The pleasure’s all mine.” He said with a nod as he let her hand go. For a moment he felt himself lost in her beautiful blue eyes. He had always had a thing for girls with blue eyes; and she was no different, it wasn’t like him to get speechless for a moment but he did recompose himself.

“Please have a seat.” Like the other girls, he pulled out her chair for her and helped her sit down. Unlike the other girls and even a shocker to Rachel, he placed Genevieve to his right. The look that Rachel shot him said that she was under the impression that that’s where she was going to sit but the look she got in response was a simple ‘no’. There were a few reasons to this; one was that Genevieve was the last to arrive; a second thing was that he didn’t want to make Rachel a target for insults/hate and lastly, it was the easiest spot. “So ladies, please tell me about yourselves.”

With that, he let the girls go on their own terms. 

[color=#F660AB]Angelica spoke up first. “I’m a makeup artist, one of the best in the business.” Her rambling began and Gray soon lost interest.[/color]

[color=ADD8E6]Gray cut Angelica off after about five minutes of her talking non-stop and turned the attention to Gabbie. “Oh me.” She said, a little surprised that he would pick her out of the rest of the women. “Well I work in a small café in downtown London. I’ve been there for a few years and really enjoy what I do. I know a lot about tea but I make a good coffee.” When Gray asked if she could make a mocha coffee, her eyes brightened and she tucked some blue hair. “I’d be happy to make you one, we’ll have to get up early and have some coffee and watch the sun rise.”[/color]

At that Gray gave her a nod with an honest smile. “That sounds perfect.” Well that was a good response. He then turned his attention to Rachel who proceeded to talk about her band just to make the hard on the editing men. Gray did his best not to laugh, hiding behind his wine most of the time before eating the salad they brought out as the appetizer. His chocolate eyes gazed over the women as they eat and listened to Rachel go on and on; some seemed to be unsure of just how relaxed they could be around him. Half the women were cutting up the lettuce into much smaller pieces without placing their elbows on the table, while others seemed a lot more relaxed about it. It just so happened that the first time he breathed a word about what he does as a job and just how much he actually makes was with talking to Rachel; that either created excitement or nervousness. And he wasn’t all that surprised.

[color=red]Krisi popped up next to speak when Rachel finished, elegantly pushing her empty salad plate forward to indicate that she was done. “I’m a banker at one of the largest banks in London. We work very closely with the royal family and a lot of other high ranking people through the United Kingdom. But outside of my job I love cooking, reading and dancing.”[/color]

“Oh you like to dance?” Gray said with a hint of surprise in his voice as he pushed his plate forward as well.

[color=red]Krisi’s face brightened as she nodded a bit more enthusiastically. “Yes, I grew up ball room dancing but I moved to swing, salsa than tango. It’s very fun and lively, especially when you have a good partner.” At that her eyes batted in the direction of Gray as the plates were removed from the people who had finished their salads. “Maybe we can dance some time.”[/color]

“I will admit to not knowing the tango.” Gray said with a nod, “But I know the waltz like the back of my hand, swing is really fun and I know the basics of salsa to get me by. So we’ll have to make time to do that.” At that he gave her a grin before waiting for someone else to speak up.