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Molly smiled at that ‘Of course not Sex can co in his filhtened her shoulders and set her jaw determinedly ‘You sure you won’t dance with me?’

‘In this dress?’ Ruby glanced down at her enhanced cleavage ‘Not a chance’

Molly scowled ‘You’re no fun’

‘I knoork really hard at it’

Laughing, Molly blew out a nervous breath and headed into the fray Ruby sometimes envied her little sister her ability to put herself ‘out there’ like that Ruby could do it for her clients but when it ca for herselfwell, she wasn’t that brave, and knowing that was one of her greatest strengths

Sipping her drink while she held Molly’s, she savoured the crisp lightness of the wine, allanced up and found hirin on his face

Instantly her breath backed up in her lungs and her pulse took off like a rocket As if he sensed her response, a heated glea them from chocolate to mink ‘When you ordered those drinks I didn’t realise you intended to drink theh inviting her to play along with his char joke

A shiver snaked down Ruby’s spine at the sound of that deep, velvety chuckle Oh, this guy was serously smooth He was alsoto deny it any longer?

‘Another lainal of you’

Instead of taking her cohly amused by it ‘I didn’t realise I’d delivered a first one’ His eyes glowed frorinned down at her ‘Now, if I told you that you had the kind of smile that could stop a man at fifty pacesthat would be a lame pick-up line’ His smile widened ‘It would also be true’

Ruby blinked up at hie without her usual four-inch heels on her feet, her gown not long enough to accoht she was a stranger, but hoas that possible? She had recognised hinise hi awareness he set off inside her