Blue-Eyed Devil by Lisa Kleypas

Author:Lisa Kleypas
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780312351649
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

“STARLIGHT EXPERIENCE” WAS the theme of the night, featuring singers and musicians all paying homage to the Gershwin brothers. At least five hundred people milled through the building while breezy, jazzy music filled the air. Gershwin was a perfect choice for the evening, giving it a feeling of spontaneous, thrown-together pleasures.

The Harrisburg actually consisted of two stages, the upstairs one about four stories high, a large traditional proscenium theater for spectacle productions. But the lower theater was the one I found more interesting. It was a modular stage with a segmented floor, each section mounted on its own independent pneumatic pistons. That way the floor could be reconfigured into any shape a production required. The walls were segmented too, allowing for a multitude of design possibilities.

Although I was immune to Todd in any romantic sense, I enjoyed the sight of him in a tux. Judging from the looks he got, most other people did too. He was sleek and feline, the tux hanging with elegant looseness on his lean body.

Todd had taken me shopping and picked out my dress, a simple long black sheath with a cowl neckline and black velvet straps. The front was relatively demure, but the back plunged so deeply that I couldn’t wear anything underneath.

“That’s the good thing about not having big breasts,” Todd had told me. “You don’t need a bra to look perky.”

“I’m not worried about the front,” I’d said. “Or looking perky. What worries me is that I’m feeling breezes in places where the sun doesn’t usually shine.”

But Todd had inspected my rear view and assured me that I wasn’t revealing any posterior cleavage. Nothing would show, he said, as long as no one stood above me and looked straight down my back.

As I had expected, most of my family was there, including Dad, Liberty, and all three of my brothers. Liberty looked ravishing in a red silk gown, the shimmering fabric draped and twisted all around her voluptuous body.

“I can’t stop looking at your wife,” Todd told Gage. “It’s like staring into a fire.”

Gage grinned, sliding his arm around Liberty. The band began to play “Embraceable You,” and Liberty looked up at him. “You want to dance,” Gage said, interpreting her expectant glance, and she nodded. He took her hand and murmured, “Come on, then,” in a low tone that made her blush. Their fingers tangled tightly as he led her away.

“She’s got you well trained, boy,” Todd called after them, and sat beside Jack and me. On the other side of the table, a never-ending parade of people came to pay homage to Dad.

“She’s good for him,” Jack commented, watching Liberty dance with his brother. “He’s loosened up a lot since they got married. And I never thought I’d see Gage so crazy about anyone.”

I grinned at Jack. “It’ll be that way for you too. Someday you’ll meet someone, and you’ll feel like you’ve been hit on the head with a two-by-four.”

“I feel like that every Saturday night,” Jack informed me.

“Your

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