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crying out loud. All of her friends lost theirs years ago. Also, it

didn‘t help her mood that she could understand everything Cybil

was saying; no matter how hard she tried to ignore her.

This is ridiculous, thought Lily as she listened in. She

may have been rich and beautiful, but the woman had absolutely

no manners. Finally when Cybil mentioned something along the

lines of her throwing herself at Nikos she swung her head

abruptly in her direction ready to blast her, but Max beat her to

it.

He answered her in French, but Lily understood every

word. ―I‘m finding these petty jealousies annoying Cybil. I told

you before Lily is the sister of my best friend.‖ Although his voice

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was calm and cool it was obvious for people who knew him as

well as Luke and Lily did, that he was annoyed.

―She didn‘t even acknowledge her date Max, she was

practically swimming all over that man. It was embarrassing.‖

Lily gaped at him. Max obviously didn‘t tell her that Luke

was her brother either, so she thought he was her date. Now it

made sense why she kept glaring at her all through the meal.

Secondly, she certainly wasn‘t swimming all over him! She sat in

between her brother and Max who acted like two sentinels

guarding a Vestal Virgin while Nikos and his father sat across

from them.

―Lily was very polite and did not indicate she was even

interested in the man and that is why he went out of his way to

get her attention. Nikos likes a challenge and her reservations

toward him were appealing. Not only that, he knows a beautiful

woman when he sees one.‖

After a sharp look at him, she snorted in disbelief, ―It

sounds like he wasn‘t the only one.‖

What did that mean? Lily could tell Max was irritated, but

his voice never indicated even a hint of it. He was as smooth and

calm as if he was talking to a small child. Several times his eyes

darted past Cybil to her. ―Your presumptions are unwarranted.‖

Cybil crossed her arms under her breasts, ―there‘s no use

even talking to you. You are gong to take her side no matter

what. I flew halfway around the world to be with you tonight and

this is how I‘m treated.‖

―Of course I am. I‘ve known her practically her whole life.

She‘s my best friend‘s sister. I‘ve only known you for several

months and you are bringing this on yourself.‖ He replied calmly.

―I told you—―

―—That you invited someone else to go, so naturally I had

to intervene.‖ She inclined her head toward Lily without looking

at her, ―Of course she found a replacement equally as quick. Not

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only that I thought Luke was your best friend.‖

―He is.‖ Said Max with a raised brow.



So much for her intelligence, thought Lily. She couldn‘t

even figure out that Luke was her brother after all of those clues.

Then at the same time something else occurred to her.

Obviously, he never told Cybil that she was Luke‘s sister. So

that’s it. He had told Cybil that he was going out with her. No

wonder why the woman was angry. Because of that she was

being talked about like she didn‘t exist and obviously she was so

mad that she hadn‘t heard Max basically say that she was Luke‘s

sister. In fact she continued ranting as if she hadn‘t heard him.

―This is just an indication of her reputation.‖ Cybil

continued visibly angry,‖ that she has no problem running

around with another man when you were no longer available.‖

That was it! One thing Lily wasn‘t was a tramp. Lily saw

Max‘s gaze narrow finally showing a sign of anger, but she beat

him to it, ―Of all the things to slander my reputation, you…you…‖

Luke fell his face in one of his hands as Lily launched into

a string of insults in French.

Lily barely noticed the woman‘s mouth fall open and pale

at the words she used because she was too angry and clearly on a

roll as the car pulled up to the curb outside their apartment.

Luke grabbed her hand and pulled her out the door before the

driver reached it, but not before she called the woman fat. He

quickly slammed the door shut and continued to drag her along

with him. Neither one of them noticed Max trying to suppress a

smile.

―Not good sis.‖ He shot over his shoulder as he led her

into his building but Lily was still trying to release his vice like

grip so she could go back and continue.

Her face burned she was so mad. ―You don‘t know what

she said! You don‘t speak French.‖ She defended as the car

pulled away from the curb with a squeal. She dropped her

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shoulders and stopped fighting her brother‘s firm grip on her