Jaya kept her eyes on Grey, desperately wanting to go back to their conversation. Damn it. He’d been about to say more—she’d felt it. But he was looking at Samantha bloody Wickers now, and the moment was shattered.

Leo materialized right behind Samantha, as if he were a ghost and Sam the Ouija board. He grinned appreciatively (and, Jaya was sure, what he thought of as “winningly”) at her, but Samantha seemed rather oblivious to Leo’s presence.

“Would anyone like a taste?” Samantha said, smiling around at all the people nearby, holding up the tray of crackers with jam or cheese on them. Samantha’s mother was the owner of the Wickers Jam empire, and according to Daphne Elizabeth, they had more money than a small European country. She thrust the tray at Grey, and more out of a wish to protect his face rather than an actual desire to taste the food, Jaya thought, Grey took one.

Jaya took one too, just to be polite, even though what she really wanted was to take that plate from Samantha and fling it over the railing into the blackness beyond. “Mm,” she said, nodding.

Samantha beamed at Grey and Jaya. Behind her, Leo’s brow furrowed. Samantha still hadn’t noticed him or offered him a cracker. “Peach champagne jam on brie. I helped my mom’s company come up with the flavor this summer.” She turned to Grey. “What do you think?”

“I think I don’t like peach. Or brie,” Grey said curtly.

Jaya struggled not to stare. Did he have no social training whatsoever?

Samantha’s face darkened. “Well, I think that’s just ru—”

Leo lunged forward, pushing Jaya slightly aside. He grabbed the remaining crackers off Samantha’s plate and shoved them in his mouth as Grey and Jaya watched, agog. “Do not listen to Grey, Sam. He does not know what he is speaking of. Mon dieu,” he said with his mouth full, “these are incroyable, Samantha! Well done! What is your secret! You must share it with me!”

“I…” Samantha looked down at her plate and then at Leo, who was staring at Samantha with what could only be described as a feverish light in his eyes as he crunched away. Jaya hid a smile behind her hand.

“Sam!” a girl called from across the rooftop. “Come here a sec!”

Samantha tossed a final, bewildered “what’s wrong with you” glance at Leo and Grey, then walked off. Leo watched her go, his face sagging.

Jaya drank a huge gulp of punch and said, “That was… interesting.”

“I was flirting!” Leo said, waving his hands around. “I was being interested in what she is interested in! Is this not how you win over people?”

Jaya stared at him. “That was… flirting?”

Leo frowned a little. “Oui,” he said, a little uncertainly. “Did it not… come through that way?”

“Well, not exactly…,” Jaya said.

Leo sighed. “I do not understand.”