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“You asked, so I came,” she replies with a noncommittal shrug.
“Is that all I have to do? Ask to have you coming?” Derrick asks, not hiding how his hungry gaze scrolls down my sister’s body from head to toe.
When Noah chuckles under his breath, it pulls my sister’s attention off of Derrick and onto him.
“Something funny, Noah?” she questions with the same malicious tone she used on Stacy.
But instead of Noah replying to her with equal venom to his voice, he plants a genuine smile to his face instead.
“Not at all, Daisy. You look lovely tonight. Truly.” The flicker of hate in my sister’s eyes dims somewhat. When Noah sees that her icy demeanor is starting to thaw, he adds, “I’m sorry for being such a jackass last night. I didn’t mean it.”
Daisy chews on his apology, not yet satisfied.
“Will it happen again?” she asks, and the way her eyes flicker to me for the briefest of seconds, I have a feeling she’s talking about something else than just Noah being a prick to her.
“I don’t think so. No.” He bows his head and shakes it, shoving his hands into his pants pockets.
“It better not,” she warns.
Noah lifts his head up, his eyes finally landing on me.
“Have fun tonight,” he says despondently before turning his back to us and walking away.
“Do I want to know what that was about?” Derrick asks curiously, pulling Daisy’s chin toward him.
“It’s nothing. Just a little fight between siblings. We’re all good now.”
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.” She smiles happily at him. “Now how about you show us around? I’m dying to see what this big-ass boat looks from the inside.”
“A tour it is.” Derrick chuckles, running his knuckles along my sister’s cheek.
This whole night has been a whirlwind, but it’s the way Daisy melts into his touch that has me gobsmacked.
Holy shit!
My sister is in love!
When did that happen?
“Are you coming?” Daisy asks, looking back over her shoulder at me, her cheeks flushed.
“I think I’ll stay here for a little while longer, then maybe I’ll go home. But you two go on ahead. Have fun.” I wink with a smile that tells her she’s going to have to do some serious explaining to me when she gets home.
Derrick offers the crook of his arm, to which my sister immediately hooks her arm to, and I stand there watching them both walk away, looking like one of those couples you see on the covers of magazines.
I’m still giggling when someone taps me on my shoulder.
“Hi,” a guy I’ve never seen before greets me.
“Hi,” I reply on autopilot.
“Couldn’t help but come on over here to introduce myself. I’m Gael. One of Derrick’s friends from Harvard.”
“I’m Skylar.”
“Hi, Skylar,” he repeats my name like it’s velvet on his tongue.
