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girl power there. Usually he’d be grilling me over every last detail. I’ll go while he’s still being a pussycat.”
    She gave them a brisk nod before moving off. As soon as she was gone, Jacinta pointedly raised her eyebrows at Lex. “Your nana’s birthday party. When were you planning on dropping that bomb?”
    “I was going to tell you, it just slipped my mind.” He slanted his eyes at her. “It’s a weekend party at my nana’s place up in Napa Valley. She’s turning ninety. Three hundred guests are invited. Alex Connelly is going to sing for her.”
    The mention of the world-famous crooner made her do a double take. “ The Alex Connelly? He’s coming all the way from wherever just to sing at your grandmother’s party?”
    “She loves his singing.” He shrugged, as if hiring an international singing superstar was an everyday occurrence. “And we can afford it.”
    The Rochesters could afford anything. Meanwhile, it hadn’t been too long ago that she and Kevin had existed on ramen noodles. Then her brain backtracked a few seconds. “Wait a minute. Did you say ‘weekend party’?”
    “Yeah. We go up on Saturday morning—won’t take us long in the helicopter. Other relatives will be arriving as well on Saturday. It’s family only that day. Sunday is the main event, a garden party, and then we return home on Monday.”
    “So I’d have to take that day off, then.”
    “A half day, at least. Is that a problem?”
    There’d be no problem taking time off work. That wasn’t the reason for her shortened breathing. She glanced around them, but there was too much chatter in the gallery for them to be overheard.
    She dropped her voice. “Would we have to share a bedroom?”
    His eyelids lowered, hiding the expression in his eyes. “Yeah. So?”
    “I’m not sharing a bedroom with you.” She hated how jittery she sounded. Hated what the idea of sharing a bedroom with Lex was doing to her—sending her blood spiraling, her imagination freewheeling.
    “My grandmother has a big place, but there’ll be a whole crowd of relatives spending Saturday night, so there won’t be any spare rooms. And besides, no one would ever believe we’re a couple if we don’t share a room.”
    “We could stay somewhere else, a hotel nearby.”
    “Nana would feel insulted.”
    The trapped feeling intensified. She tried to step back, but the crowd behind hemmed her in. “I—I can’t come, then. You don’t need me at this party, do you?”
    Lex scrutinized her for a few moments, then, hooking his hand around her elbow, he pushed a way clear for them through the throngs. They left the gallery and descended the stone steps before he spoke.
    “I do need you,” he said earnestly. “Apart from establishing our relationship as genuine, I have another reason. I’ve organized a family meeting for Monday morning. My grandmother has trouble traveling to San Francisco, so since we’ll all be gathered in Napa, I thought it would be a good opportunity to discuss some business. You can help me. By spending time with my relatives, you might get some idea of who’s responsible. The trouble is, I’m too close to everything. I don’t have the proper perspective, but you might pick up things I wouldn’t.”
    Everything he said made sense, but it wasn’t logic that had her insides knotted in panic. She was still vulnerable to Lex’s sensuality; just look at how she’d crumbled at his touch at Carl’s party. Spending an entire weekend with him would test her resistance to the hilt. On the other hand, if she had a chance to find out who the mole was, then she’d be a fool not to take it, because then she’d fulfill her part of the bargain, she’d be done with Lex forever, and Kevin would at long last get a job. Wasn’t that worth the risk?
    “Okay,” she said. “I’ll go with you.”
    “You don’t have to look so grumpy,” Lex said as they began to walk back to the car. “It’s not all bad news. You’ll be giving