It's Friday night and Niki and I are just wrapping things up at a fund raising dinner for a local charity where Niki and her crew put together a high end fashion show. Niki has a very successful fashion design business and has had some of her creations grace the bods of a couple of Hollywood divas over the years. She's earned a local and regional reputation for innovative and inspired designs. She has the local models waiting in line to model her stuff. She's that good.
The charity charged attendees $100 per plate and Niki and crew had them wowing her creations for about 45 minutes. I counted the room and think that they must have cleared at least $50K after costs so it looked very successful from what I could tell. Plus, Niki had me donate all of the wine for the event which set me back about $5K. Oh well, at least I get to write off a portion of that.
As we leave the banquet room, I can see that Niki is physically beat. She's probably been going at it for the last three days to make sure everything's perfect. It's her show, her designs, and her reputation that are on the line so she wants it to come off well. Plus after the show is done, we must have spent another hour packing her stuff away so her people could cart it back to her shop. I can see that she's exhausted.
We get to our car and Niki hops into the passenger seat and is reclining her chair as I drop into the driver's side.
"Hon, thanks for helping me tonight. I really appreciate your donating all that wine, then helping us clean up and put stuff away. I just want you to know that," Niki said as we pulled out of our parking space.
"Niki, you know that all you have to do is ask. I thought your designs were a big hit tonight and the charity took in a lot of cash and donations. "
"Thanks. Although you're probably slightly biased. But I really want to thank you for being there for me. Tonight and always," Niki sighed with a smile.
"Well, it's always great that we can afford to do this sort of thing from time to time. And it always makes me feel good to be with you and to help you with this stuff," I responded. Niki smiled back at me and placed her hand on mine.
No more words needed. We just looked at each other and leaned into a soft, heart thumping kiss. I love this woman with every fiber of my being.
As we pulled out of the parking garage, Niki asked "Do we have anywhere that we need to be tomorrow?"
"Not that I know of. Besides, tomorrow's Saturday and I have no intention of letting you out of my sight until Monday morning!"
Niki reached over and grabbed my balls through my pants, "Oohhhh, you just know how to make me purr!" she laughed.