She had found a little round mirror in her tiny purse and started inspecting her immaculate lips. One long fingernail pushed a delicious dent in the s...lk pillow of her lower lip."That, eh, would be champagne, I guess?"He didn't even have to lift a finger to get the order across. The sparkling wine was there in a flash."You here often, honey?" she asked, putting away the mirror."Now and again," he said. "Business, mostly."He liked the sound of that. She had taken the slender stem of her glass. Wait a second!”As he reaches her, he asks, “Are you alright?”“Of course, I’m alright dummy. Why wouldn’t I be?” Irony, shit.“You just went off, right after Karren told you that I’ve seen her yesterday …”Chloe boxes him. "Hey, that hurts," he says.“Good! That’s for not telling me where you’ve been. If … If you don’t tell me something my mind makes it up and that’s usually not very pretty.” Chloe looks down.Daniel understands, "I'm sorry" and hugs her. "I guess I just have to be an open book from. “You should take off your ... uh ... sling,” he suggested. Lozka did as he asked, rising to her knees to slide off her leather top. The garment had been tight, the primitive equivalent of a sports bra, keeping her assets from bouncing around while she moved. She made no attempt to cover herself as she had in the spring, as there was no reason to now, Ben watching as her breasts slipped out of their support. Even if they were modest on her svelte frame, they were larger than he had anticipated,. .. so ... reasonable. “No!” I pouted, knowing it was ridiculous and immature, but I couldn’t help it.The cheeky bastard smiled, trying and failing to cover his twitching lips with one hand. “Sierra ... your brother—”“He doesn’t see me as his sister – he sends people to spy on me and endangers my husband! – so why should I have to jump when he commands?”He wrapped one, muscular arm around me and pulled me, stiff and resisting, against him. “Okay. Forget that. You’re right. He doesn’t have the.