“Dom, Logan!”
I turned to see Mav and Eli making their way towards us. Dom and Logan immediately wrapped their arms around their son and I shook Mav’s hand. My eyes fell on the silver and brass ring on Mav’s finger and I smiled. When I lifted my eyes to meet Mav’s, he was smiling widely and nodded. I understood the silent message and I didn’t need to look at Eli’s hand to know that I’d see the beautiful white gold and black ring there.
I embraced Mav. “Congratulations,” I whispered in his ear.
“Thank you,” he murmured. “For everything.”
When I pulled back, I saw that Dom and Logan were admiring Eli’s ring so I quietly said, “Caleb?”
“He’s okay,” Mav said. “He’s with Jace.”
That surprised me, but before I could ask, Mav said, “I’ll tell you all about it later.”
I nodded.
“Ronan?”
At the sound of my name, I looked up to see two men walking towards us and I smiled. “You made it.”
“Wouldn’t miss it,” the older of the two men said as he reached out his hand. Cash Malloy was in his late thirties and was built like a tank. With his dark hair and even darker eyes, the man always had adangerous look to him and I rarely saw him smile even when he was in the company of the guy who was more than just his partner in my group. Sage Brighton was Cash’s polar opposite with his reddish brown hair that nearly touched his shoulders and the perpetual smile on his face. I didn’t know exactly when the two men had started up a personal relationship, but it had been going on from almost the moment they’d both joined my organization within a few months of one another and had been assigned to partner up on a case. Since then, they always worked cases together and since they were such an accomplished team, I’d never even considered splitting them up.
Sage leaned in to hug me and then he and Mav were chatting.
“Ronan, look who I found,” I heard Memphis say and he pushed his way through the group of men. I smiled at the sight of Daisy practically being dragged behind him. My IT girl clearly looked like she’d rather be anywhere else.
I wrapped my arms around the young woman. “Thank you for coming,” I said softly in her ear.
“Well, he” – she motioned to Memphis – “practically made it an order.”
I chuckled because I had no doubt that was true. Daisy’s comfort zone was located on the opposite side of a computer screen.
“You look beautiful,” I murmured as I released her and studied the long floral print dress that hugged her curvy figure and floated softly around her legs. Her long brown hair was pulled into a loose ponytail that hung down well past her shoulders.
“He picked it out,” she whispered as she once again motioned to Memphis.
I laughed and hugged her again. “I promise you can change as soon as the ceremony is over.”
That earned me a chuckle. I began introducing her to the other men, but when we reached Sage and Cash, I saw her hesitate.
“So this is the infamous Daisy,” Sage drawled as he reached for her hand and held it a lot longer than he needed to. I didn’t miss the electricity that flared to life between the pair, but Daisy pulled her hand free as quickly as she could without seeming rude.
“Nice…nice to meet you,” she stammered as she dropped her eyes.
I sent Sage a hard look, but he seemed clueless as his eyes stayed on Daisy. What the hell? Was he actually interested in her? My eyes shot to Cash, but to my surprise, he too was staring at the young woman.
“Daisy,” Cash murmured softly as he held out his hand.
That was it. He didn’t say anything else, but the way he said her name had me wondering what the hell I was missing.
Daisy shook Cash’s hand and nodded, but she didn’t speak and she struggled to maintain eye contact with him. When she spied Mav, she got the escape she clearly needed and she hurried to him. The pair had worked together early on when I’d hired Daisy so she seemed much more comfortable with him than she did with anyone else. But her behavior with Cash and Sage seemed odd.
“What the hell was that?” I asked the pair as they both continued to watch Daisy.
“What?” Sage finally asked as he looked at me. He smiled and said, “We’ve talked with her on the phone a few times. It was nice to put a face with the voice, that’s all.”
“She’s just not what we expected, Ronan,’’ Cash said quietly and then he was snagging Sage’s arm. “We’ll catch you later.”
Memphis stepped to my side and I asked, “Do you know what that’s all about?” as I motioned to where Daisy was still talking to Mav, but kept shifting her eyes to Sage and Cash as they passed her.
