Daisy Rae jumped back from him with a gasp, but Garion only laughed, since she was also looking up at him with unconcealed fascination.
"I'll get back to you on that," Daisy Rae told him earnestly, "but first I need more Dutch courage."
And that was how Garion ended up alone in a dance floor, and looking like he had been dumped for the first time in his life.
While the other guys ribbed Garion endlessly about his dance floor drama, Daisy Rae in the meantime was asking advice from her newfound friends.
"I want to be just as wicked as Mr. Ross, but can I really do it when I'm still a virgin?"
Cha-Cha could hardly believe her ears, and for more reasons than one. Who knew Garion Ross was actually capable of beingwicked?And secondly - why was Daisy Rae talking about her date like he was her boss instead?
Cha-Cha's widowed sister-in-law, on the other hand, was busy thinking about how Garion Ross seemed to have completely changed overnight. He had stopped attending parties since Wendy died, and she had seen him smile more times tonight than the last few years put together. All of those could only be because of Daisy Rae...couldn't it?
Charlotte was startled when Daisy Rae tugged her hand. "Charlotte? What if you were in my place? What would you do?"
"Well..." She was shy and boring, and just like Daisy Rae, she wasn't at all the type to be wicked either. "If I were in your place, I'd probably drink more champagne until I have no inhibitions left?"
Cha-Cha laughed at the way Daisy Rae's mouth opened and closed. "I know Charlotte looks more like a nun than anything, but when my brother was still...with us, they had a ridiculously active sex life—-"
"Cha-Cha!"
"What?" Cha-Cha gave Charlotte a pious look. "I just wanted her to know that your advice is worth taking seriously."
Their conversation then turned to the other residents of Evergreen, and how the small Texan town happened to have its own Billionaires Row of ranches.
"But they're all pretty cool," Cha-Cha assured her, "although I do have to warn you about Devon. He kinda takes after Garion, and by that I mean he's well-mannered 99% of the time."
"And the 1%?"
"He can get reallynastywhen he's angry."
Daisy Rae blinked. While Devon Montgomery did remind her just a bit of a brooding Heathcliff, she couldn't picture someone as coolly collected as Garion Ross being nasty, and she was unable to resist asking him about this when they were back on each other's side.
"Cha-Cha warned me about your temper."
"Did she?" The billionaire's tone was bland.
Withthreeglasses of champagne now in her system, Daisy Rae was in a suddenly playful mood, and she looked at the billionaire teasingly. "Is it really something I should worry about...Mr. Ross?"
Hazel eyes gleamed down at her in amusement. "You're tipsy."
"But not drunk."
"Not sober either."
"Which still doesn't mean I'm drunk," she insisted.
"Nevertheless, I think it's best that you only drink when I'm around."
"What if I don't agree?"
His gaze glinted, and Daisy Rae had her answer. "Oh."
Garion was bemused. "Oh?"
"I just saw a hint of it, and so I now know it's true."
Her tone was proud, her smile mischievous, and the combination was just too fucking hot for his cocknotto turn hard in an instant.