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myself go to the music, that he is an excellent dance and can easily keep up with me. I laugh happily — and yes tipsily — as he swings me around. Giggling I hold on to his wide, hard shoulders and just let go.
                  The music ends and I convince Blake to dance one more with me. But before the music is even over I am thirsty and ready for something cold and refreshing. So we return to the VIP area and I drop down beside of Bianca and Christian at one of the table s. I take my bestie’s frozen daiquiri from her hand and take two gulps of it before offering it back to her. 
                  “Having fun?” She asks, resting her back against Christian’s strong front.
                  “A blast.” I assure her. “And don’t you dare say ‘I told you so’ Bee or I will never speak to you again.”
                  She holds up her slender hands. “Now would I ever do that?”              
                  I share a grin with Christian over her head and we both say “Yes!” and the exact same time. Blake, having been busy acquiring me another drink drops down across from me. “Ah! I love you!” I exclaim as I take a long swallow of the lemon- lime soda he has put before me.
                  “Damn it!”
                  I frown over at Bianca and the sudden fierceness of her tone. “What?” I ask, wiping my lips with a cocktail napkin.
                  Bianca isn’t looking at me, however. Her glacier blue eyes are glaring over my head and I turn to see what, or more who, has put such a cold look on my friend’s normally happy-go-lucky face.
                  Of course I regret it as soon as I turn my head and find Keith Winthrop standing a few feet away speaking to his brother. I make a quick survey of the roo m but cannot spot any other newcomers and realize that my step brother appears to be dateless.
    My heart clenches. I have just promised myself that I am going to forget about this sexy as sin man and he choices now to voluntarily appear her e tonight? I want to shout and scream and slap his sardonically raised eye-browed face!
                  As I watched the two devastatingly sexy brothers talk I couldn’t help but notice that there was a difference in Keith. Even in the dim lighting and from my distance I could see that he wasn’t nearly as tense as normal. The set of shoulders weren’t as ridged and the lines around his eyes and mouth that were usually wrinkled with stress h as eased. It made him look younger, more carefree. And so, so much more appealing to my senses.
                  Of course I c annot help but wonder what had brought this new change to him. A new woman perhaps? After the scandal he had stirred up back around Valentine’s Day my step-brother has surprisingly been out of the gossip tabloids. And I haven’t heard about any new girl-friends in just as long. So I was pretty sure that he had someone special in his life and he was just keeping it quiet.
                  My heart contracted at the thought.
                  “Let’s dan ce!” Bianca hollers and I force a smile to my lips. She st ands and pull s me to my feet before turning to Blake. “Let’s go, lover boy. Don’t want someone still the girl do ya?”
                  Blake laughs and shakes his head as he stands and I am practically lifted off my feet with just one arm. “Let’s dance!” He hollers just as Bianca did and the three of us head for the stairs.
                  I can’t help but giggle. “I can walk.” I beat on Blake’s arm, but he doesn’t seem to notice and only hikes me higher. Squealing I wiggle trying to get free and he shifts and tosses me over his shoulder just as we are passing my step brothers.
                  My dress, as short as it is , uncovers my butt and lets everyone see