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find a man who appealed to her. Someone her age or older for a start. Instead of looking for a way in, Alice started to walk down Richmond Street to check out some of the other spots.
    Multiple groups of young people were out walking from club to club. The night air was filled with the woohoos and giggles of the university students, catcalls and whistles. The longer Alice walked, the more she realized her heart wasn’t exactly into to this. Stopping in front of yet another warehouse, neon lights and music humming within, her throat tightened around a sudden rush of unshed tears. This wasn’t what she needed.
    “Shit.” She closed her eyes for a moment and sighed.
    Why couldn’t she do this? She wasn’t old or a prude. It should be easy as pie to walk into one of these places, order a drink, and start up a conversation. So far she hadn’t even bothered to wait in the lines, let alone make any serious attempt to find a date.
    She wanted to have some fun, right? Have sex?
    Find a man who made her smile and laugh. Someone who made her shiver with a casual caress, who made her wet with his soft whispered words. Someone who wanted to seduce her at night, but still want to watch TV with her in the day.
    This was ridiculous. If she wasn’t going to at least go into the clubs, then what was the point of her being here?
    There wasn’t.
    In the end it wouldn’t be enough for her, no matter how much she wanted to have a fling, throw caution to the wind in exactly the same way she’d told Petra to do the night before.
    Alice stepped to the side of the street and started to look for a taxi. She’d go home, open her last bottle of wine, and drink it. Tomorrow, she’d see if Petra could go out for breakfast and maybe a movie. If not, she’d hit Chapters and buy a few books for both herself and her mom. And if that didn’t fill her day...well, distractions were easy enough to find in Toronto.
    A limo stopped across the street and down from where Alice stood. Expecting to see yet another group of drunk university students tumble out, she was shocked to see the one person she wasn’t expecting in this part of town.
    Gael.
    No way. What the hell was he doing here?
    Two other men got out of the back of the limo with him. All three were dressed in black, though one looked to be head to toe in leather. Alice blinked twice to ensure she was actually seeing who she thought she was. It could simply be a hallucination brought on by her loneliness. Closing her eyes for the count of two, she opened them once more, only to see Gael still standing there.
    She had no idea that he was into the club scene at all, let alone coming out on the town in a limo with a bunch of men. But the way he looked at a group of young women who passed them on the street clearly told her all she needed to know. He was out on the prowl.
    He’d assumed she was the type of girl who was interested only in getting into a relationship with a man. Okay, so maybe she projected the pure as the driven snow image a bit too well. He was being a gentleman by warning her off because he’d read her wrong. Maybe the idea of having a little fling wouldn’t be quite so repellant to him?
    Ignoring the taxi that slowly drove past her, Alice watched as the three men, led by Gael, walked down the street and the limo pulled away. They weren’t heading in the direction of any of the larger clubs, which was a good thing as far as she was concerned. Taking a chance and ignoring her pounding heart, Alice crossed the street and trailed behind them.
    Was this stalking? It was pretty damn close. Creepy close? Maybe, though she wasn’t quite up to movie-of-the-week stalking yet.
    She hoped.
    Shit.
    Stopping, she watched as the trio turned the corner and went down an alley. So many of the warehouses had been changed into clubs over the years, she wasn’t as familiar with what was housed in the area as she should have been. Not knowing where he was headed, or how he would react if he saw