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Had they dressed up to take her to her reunion? Not, that wasn’t it, stupid girl. They were getting their money back.
They stood still as their gaze slid over her. Her cheeks turned red at the bold perusal of every part of her.
“The limo is ready, Boss men,” Mike said.
“You’re not going to kill him?” she asked. She needed to hear them say it to her this time.
“No.”
She sighed in relief and stopped herself from crying.
Drake offered her his arm and guided her out. Justin stood in front of her and Ian on her other side.
She was too nervous to talk. And the closer they got to the school the more her apprehension grew. Morgan was going to be okay. But the reunion made her want to throw up. She wanted to stay in the car until Morgan gave them the stick. But she alighted the limo anyway and forming the same formation around her they entered the school gym now elegantly decorated for a black-tie event.
She stalled at the entrance.
“Ready?”
“What if I fall?”
“Then we’ll catch you,” Ian said.
“Everyone will call me Klutzy Lorelei.”
“Then we’ll cut their tongues out,” Drake said.
“They’ll remember the time I fell into the fountain and laugh at me again.”
“Then we’ll kill anyone who laughs at you,” Justin said.
She had no idea what she was doing. But she was going to do it anyway.
They entered and she got her name tag and then had to receive enviable and very surprised looks when she explained that Justin, Ian, and Drake were with her.
She thought she was going to faint but the instant her gaze landed on Brooke Pincot, now Brooke Sterling, surrounded by her mean girl club, same old, same old, everything she had ever felt about school disappeared.
Brooke of course was the first one to get to them. She recognized the DeMarco men instantly as the owners of a string of nightclubs, hotels, and cruise lines, all over the world. She even knew they were no longer in the mining sector. She dragged her husband over and introduced him but it was clear prim and proper Brooke Pincot, the school sweetheart, couldn’t take her eyes off Justin, Ian, and Drake.
“You never expect to meet such important people at a reunion filled with people who are such underachievers,” she said conspiratorially. “I'm almost embarrassed to be associated with them. But duty calls/ My husband here is in Congress and I would love for you to come over for dinner one night. Oh, please do.”
Lorelei could see Brooke’s mind work. They didn’t go to school with her, so who did they come with? It was only after a good few minutes that she turned to Lorelei and gaped.
“Lorelei?”
“I’m sorry, do I know you? Excuse me, I see my friend,” Lorelei smiled goodnaturedly, snug between Justin and Drake this time.
“It was a pleasure to meet you in person, Congressman Sterling,” Ian said before they could walk away. “But we’d appreciate it if you’d settle your bill at Vertigo. You asked for some of our best girls but they don’t come cheap for the stuff they do.”
Ian winked at her. Brooke gasped so loudly she attracted everyone’s attention. If Lorelei was drinking something she would have splattered out every last drop herself.
“It’s true,” Ian added, giving her smile. “You get to decide what we do with that information. Later.”
But she couldn’t spare another thought on Brooke Pincot and her cheating husband. She meant nothing to her anymore. But the sight of Morgan shattered her heart. She ran to him and hugged him tightly.
She ruffled his red hair because it looked odd when he actually combed it down. His suit as usual was a little too big but how she loved him.
“You cleaned up,” he said, smiling at her. He was okay. He was alive.
