Page 89 of Sweet Temptation

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“Guess again, little brother,” Caitlin laughs. “I’m the one who can keep a secret, and I have better taste.”

“Yourhusband isherfather’sbrother.And her father hates me,” I growl at Cait.

“What in the murder-board-loving world—” Rome laughs. “Damn, when you put it that way, we really do sound like a bunch of backwoods, inbred assholes, don’t we?”

“Yes,” Cait and I both answer at the same time as the owner walks into the front of the shop.

“Mr. Beneventi. So good to see you. Both of you. And Ms. Beneventi?—”

“Sinclair,” Cait corrects him. “Nice to see you, Charles. We’d like to see your engagement rings, please. Nothing smaller than three carats. The diamond needs to be a D, VS1. I want it colorless and flawless. She deserves perfect.”

“Caitlin scares me,” Rome murmurs. “Hope you have a black Amex.”

“I can hear you, and we were all born with a black Amex.”

Charles looks between my sister and me and clears his throat. “Does the lady have a shape preference?”

I should probably know this, but I don’t.

Guess I should be glad Rome called Cait.

Cait smiles, and in this moment, she might scare me a little too.

“Round brilliant on a plain platinum band, Charles,” she tells him and without so much as second-guessing her, he disappears into the back of the store. “Your girl deserves the world, little brother.”

Yeah, she fucking does.

Now if she’d just let me give it to her.

LEXIE

She’s the phoenix forged in the flames.

Love her harder.

Hold her tighter.

Then watch her fly.

—Lexie’s Secret Thoughts

Lexie

Rome, are you still good to get Lucky to West End tonight?

Rome

I wasn’t in charge of that.

Ryker

That was me. But Linc said he’d do it.

Lexie

Linc was supposed to help me get the cake there.

Linc

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