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blonde bob and big brown eyes pouted, Daisy
presumed to be another old girlfriend.
    “Sorry, I had
to pick up my new friend. Lydia Cartwright, I want you to meet Daisy Lock,” he
said, smiling at both women.
    She decided
that he must have had a thousand different smiles, all for different occasions.
    “Nice to meet
you, Daisy! We’ve been waiting. Come – meet the rest of the gang!”
    Daisy laughed
and allowed Lydia to tug her hand. “There’s more than the tribe?”
    “Tribe? Oh,
that’s Dane’s word. And he’s right. You are hot! Come.”
    The music
pounded through her core. She watched as Christian talked to a few other
college kids, all turning toward her as they got closer. He smiled at her as
she approached with Lydia.
    Lydia turned to
her right. “This is my best friend, Charlotte. She’s one of us.”
    “Nice to meet
you." She regarded Charlotte’s passive attitude, wondering what caught her
eye behind her shoulder. Charlotte had long dark hair to her waist and big
round eyes. She turned to see it was Christian who was oblivious to this heated
attention. He caught Daisy’s eye and winked.
    Christian
returned to them with a cute guy wearing black-framed glasses. “Daisy, I’d like
you to meet a good friend of mine, Eric.”
    Eric pushed his
glasses up on his nose. He brought her hand to his lips and bowed. “Ah, the
famous Daisy. Is that really your name? It seems so...”
    “Country?”
Daisy answered, embarrassed. She pulled her hand back, convinced they were
groomed to do that.
    He laughed.
“No, I was going to say – delicate." Eric grinned.
    She smiled in
return. “My mom’s name was Rose, so...”
    “Oh, I get it,”
Lydia jumped in. “So then you’ll name your daughter a flower too?”
    Daisy laughed
in response and put her hands up. “Nope, stops at me.”
    “What can I get
you to drink, Daisy?” Christian asked.
    “Water’s fine.”
    He drew his
brows up and smiled. “Good choice. Be right back.”
    She watched him
walk to the multiple coolers and drag two bottles of Evian out of a blue one. A
few girls flirted with him, a few guys pounded fists with him. They all bowed
when he walked away.
    He returned
with a cold bottle and screwed off the top. “Here you go, one fresh water for
the pretty lady.”
    “Thank you,
kind sir,” she laughed. She bowed to him.
    “Don’t ever do
that again,” he said in a serious tone.
    She glared at
him a moment, feeling hot. “Sorry. I didn’t mean anything…you drink water too?”
    He stared off
into the lake with a somber face. “Yes. Quit drinking in high school.”
    She couldn’t
help but wonder what caused him to stop drinking. Maybe it was when his
girlfriend had died. Regret filled her and she looked off into the water in
silence.
    A rainbow of
fireworks exploded in the dark sky, causing the crowd to cheer and clap. Some
couples kissed and hugged.
    “Beautiful!”
Daisy said to the sky.
    Christian
turned and snapped a picture of her with his phone. “I agree.”
    She gave a shy
smile. Their eyes locked until the sound of chanting infiltrated the musical
bash. She listened more closely. The words they chanted were “Christian's next,
Christian's next,” over and over. That was fine until she heard words that
nearly stopped her heart. “Hail Christian.”
    Daisy glanced
between the frenzied crowd and Christian, confusion wrinkling her face. The
group of what looked to be the town’s most elite children, the next men to have
their painted portrait on Jack’s Den’s wall, swarmed around the bonfire.
    Before she
could question Christian what that meant, her mouth fell open as she walked
closer. Her hand flew to her mouth as she took in the strange scene. They were
throwing in what looked to be little white flowers with yellow centers. Daisies.
    “What the…”
    Christian
strode fast and hard to the fire and put his hands over the buckets. “No more!”
    Dane turned
toward him. “No more? We’re

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