Whether I’m tempting fate or just thinking with my dick, I go back for more, gripping her tighter against me. Pride swells in my chest when she catches her breath and smiles. I move us faster, closer, until the music rises to a peak, and the floor clears around us for a beat. I change my grip until I’ve got my right hand locked around her left and meet her gaze.
“Hold on.”
Her eyes go wide, but she nods. Her trust in me is completely unfounded, but I’ll take it anyway.
Right at the perfect moment, I use my body to spin her out my right arm and then switch hands in a split second to spin her back down my other arm.
Her friends cheer, squealing as she does a twirl at the end. I pull her close again, her back to my front, and both my arms wrap around her.
I keep her right where she is for a few more breaths before the beat changes and the DJ spins a new track. Raising my head, I catch a flash of movement at the edge of the dance floor.
Q.
It’s like the spell has been broken, because based on his posture, it’s clear something’s up.
As much as I don’t want to, I release my hold on Scarlett and turn her around to face me.
“I have to go. Save me a dance.”
Thirty-Two
Scarlett
Legend disappears from the dance floor like a ghost fading into the night. As soon as he’s gone, I smile, because his scent still clings to me, and the heat I stole from his hard body hasn’t cooled yet.
Kelsey, Monroe, and Harlow swarm me.
“Oh my God!” Monroe squeals.
“Did you see that?” Kelsey says, her mouth hanging open. “Because I wouldn’t believe that if I hadn’t just seen it.”
“I got it on video!” Harlow waves her phone in front of my face. “Now we can all watch it over and over. Oh my God. I’m going to swoon. Because seriously, that wasah-may-zing.”
Harlow’s acrylic-tipped fingers wrap around my wrist as she pulls me off the dance floor. Monroe and Kelsey are right behind us.
“You videoed it? Oh my God, I knew you were secretly a genius hiding your powers,” Kelsey says, panting for breath as she swings her attention from Harlow to me. “You just danced your ass off with Gabriel Legend in his club, where henevercomes out on the floor.”
“And he looked like heneverwanted to let her go,” Monroe adds. “He is so totally into you!”
The giddiness of the moment, and my friends’ excitement, has me buzzing even harder than I was after the shot we did when we came out on the dance floor. As if my thoughts summoned her, the waitress with a tray of shooters walks by us, and Harlow tosses down some bills.
“We need more to toast this shit!”
I toss back the drink and wave at Harlow. “I want to see it. I want to see it.”
“Let’s go back upstairs. It’ll be easier,” she replies.
“Yeah, and someone will have posted it to YouTube by then too,” Kelsey says, leading the way to the stairs.
“YouTube?” My voice cracks as I hustle up to the second level with my friends, wishing for another drink before I lose my mind.
Kelsey pauses at the top to sling an arm around my waist. “Don’t worry, you looked like a fucking rock star out there. And just remember, any publicity is good publicity.”
Monroe signals to Astra, who appears with a fresh bottle.
“Would you ladies like more champagne, or can I get something else for you?”
“We’ve switched to shots, so let’s stick with that.” Monroe rattles off three names of drinks I don’t recognize, but Astra promises to be right back with them.