Page 215 of In Love with a Cruel Billionaire

HOURS LATER, MANDYand Velvet crowded around her, each of them holding copies of Damen’s book. “Pleeeeaaaase sign our copies, Mrs. Leventis,” Velvet begged in an exaggeratedly loud voice as she fluttered her lashes.

“Shut up,” Mairi said laughingly.

Mandy forced her friend to take her copy. “Sign it.”

Velvet handed Mairi a pen. “And don’t forget to sign it withA Greek Billionaire’s Wife.”

She shook her head, trying to be strong. “No.”

Her friends looked at her. “You know you want to,” Velvet said slyly.

“No.” She was a respectable missus now.

They still just looked at her, their gazes ever knowing.

Oh, what the heck!

Velvet and Mandy burst into laughter as they watched Mairi sign their copies with her four most favorite words. When she returned the copies to her friends, she saw them looking at her with expectant expressions.

Mairi blinked. “What?”

Mandy grinned. “Go on, say it.”

Oh, how well they knew her.

And how terribly lucky she was that they had never abandoned her.

Tears stinging her eyes, Mairi said, “Yay me!” She threw her arms around them. “Group hug!”

“Ewww,” Velvet automatically protested, always the one uncomfortable with emotional displays.

“Oh, hush. You should be used to PDA by now after what you’ve been doing with your own Greek billionaire.”

Mandy said promptly, “I’m not married to a Greek billionaire, so you can let go of me anytime.” The ever practical sort, Mandy also saw no valid reason why affectionate displays should be made in public.

Grinning, Mairi hugged her friends more tightly. “Yay me!”

Mandy and Velvet groaned. “We’ve created a monster.”

This made Mairi laugh out loud, the sound drawing the attention of her husband who stood a few feet away, surrounded by his own circle of acquaintances. She sensed the very moment Damen looked at her, and when their gazes met, a devastatingly sexy smile curved on his lips.

Come here.

Mairi let go of her friends. “Excuse me. My Greek billionaire husband is calling me.”

Mandy smacked her forehead. “This is your fault, Velvet. Now she’s going to call Damen that forever.”

Mairi didn’t mind her friend’s words. She was mentally floating as she made her way to Damen.Yay me, yay me, yay me!

Damen captured her by the waist as he pulled her to his side. “I love you.”

Mairi melted. “I love you more, my Greek billionaire husband.”

Behind her, Velvet and Mandy groaned loudly, having heard perfectly what Mairi had said with such gushing happiness.

Mykolas’ lips twitched. “I believe I have to rescue my wife and her friend.” Velvet and Mandy were making slow slashing motions against their necks.

When Mykolas left the group, Damen motioned for Mairi to face him, and that was when she saw the unfamiliar-looking man standing next to her husband. “Mairi, I’d like you to meet Acheron. He is Yehor Kokinos’ nephew and the true heir of the family.”

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