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"Wow," she said "Just "

Lucian shrugged a shoulder "Hey, it is a surprise to e what I want"

The centers of her cheeks flushed pink as she sat back in her seat Those lush lips were parted He could tell she had no idea how to respond And he hadn’t beenwith her He was a hundred percent honest

"II don’t even knohat to say to you," she said, and there was a stark truthfulness to her words "Like at all"

The sudden tapping of heels on stone snapped his aze just as Dev’s fiancée appeared on the back patio

Aw hell

If there was one surefire way to kill thean appearance

The heiress to the Harrington Shipping eth black dress a stark contrast against her icy blond hair and pale skin

Julia twisted in her seat, following his gaze "Oh my"

"That’s Dev’s fiancée" He sighed

"I’ve seen her before" Julia iliazines"

Lucian didn’t like her eagerness Sabrina waswell, as inside that woed as her outside

"Really?" Sabrina stopped at the edge of the patio, her blood red lips thinning Dark glasses shielded her eyes and a purse that probably weighed half her weight dangled fro lunch with the help now, Lucian?"

"Careful," he warned while Julia stiffened in her chair "I don’t have to play nice with you"

"Last I checked I don’t have to place nice with you either" Her head cocked to the side, and not a single strand of hair slipped out of whatever she had going on with the updo "And who are you?"

"My nalanced at Lucian

"She knows about Maddie," he assured her

"You’re the nurse?" Sabrina said and then gave a short laugh "Okay, then"

"Wow," Juliafor Devlin" Sabrina angled her body in his direction "Do you knohere he is?"

Like she really thought Dev would be outside in the rose garden of all places Knowing Sabrina, she’d caught sight of Julia froate "Does it look like I knohere he’d be?"

Those garish red lips pursed "Well, I was hoping you’d be useful for once"

"Damn," Julia murmured

"Honey, I’m just not useful in the way you want" He smirked when her nostrils flared "But as I’ and--"

Gabe appeared on the garden’s pathway, having come from the other entrance His brother drew up short

Well, Lucian rong

More like Sabrina had seen Gabe try to duck outside and had followed, looking for hied as her hand floated to the dia in the chain

His brother winced "Hello, Sabrina" Then he nodded at Julia and s up lunch" She plucked the napkin out of her lap "We had Livie’s beignets They were a I ate so many of the on Lucian like being sprayed with battery acid "Since half of the beignets appear to be on the front of what I guess is a shirt"

Lucian slowly turned to Sabrina, but before he could respond, Julia did