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Instead I mentally bitch-slap my mother’s rule book and stay blissfully silent

We make three additional stops First at Giselle, who seeue I wear my practiced plastic smile as she and Damien talk I’m not as put off by her as I was earlier, but neither do I intend to enlist her as my new best friend Next, we track down Evelyn and Blaine to say both congratulations and goodbye I’m in the middle of a very proper handshake with Blaine e both look at each other and laugh "Co I receive from Evelyn is even bolder, and as she holds etting a little tonight"

"Only a little?" I reply, then shs wickedly

"And there it is, Texas," she says, releasing er attrash, and not necessarily in that order"

"It’s a date," I say Then realize my camera’s downstairs in the library

"Leave it," Damien says, when I say as much "I promise you won’t need it"

"I don’t know," I counter "I can’t think of anaked in front of a "

"Are you under the iht?"

"I’m hopeful, Mr Stark I’m very, very hopeful"

Jamie is the last person we seek out, and we find her at a table on the balcony deep in conversation with a tousle-haired guy in a Hawaiian print shirt

Oh, no, Ja on and on about Raine

"Hey, you two," she says, looking up at us "Louis, this isyou already know Mr Stark"

As Dareet, Ja’s fine I glance at Louis Are you--?

She wrinkles her nose and gives the slightest shake of her head "Louis is a director," she says breezily "We were talking television Great house," she adds, turning her attention to Damien "Greater party"

"Glad you think so Nikki and I just ca look I paste on my most innocent smile

"Edill take you home whenever you’re ready," Daives h the kitchen to the service area so that we aren’t waylaid by anyone catching us leaving by the stairs

"So where are we going, Mr Stark?" I ask as we step out into the cool night air "Do you fancy a walk?"

"Actually, I fancy a drive"