Holden twirled me on the dance floor, leaving me breathless when he moved his hips against mine, moving fluidly to the faster beat. His hands were everywhere as we moved together. He stroked me from neck to fingertip and then down my back, only to run his finger down my chin and throat. I quickly realized that it was Holden who was teasing me.
His mouth brushed my neck as he moved to whisper to me. “You’re the sexiest woman here. I haven’t been able to take my eyes off of you.”
“Then you don’t know that I’m the sexiest.”
I gasped when he suddenly spun me out, and when he pulled me back in, my back was to his front. Our hips rolled together to the beat of the music and my pulse rocketed higher. “Holden…”
He pressed his lips to the side of my neck and nipped me lightly before moving his mouth to the shell of my ear. “Look at Dom.”
I forced my eyes open and found Dominic across the bar. Sitting at the table, he could’ve been mistaken as the picture of calm. It was his eyes that gave him away. He was coiled so tight it looked like he would explode at any moment.
“I don’t need to look anywhere else to know you’re the sexiest woman here, Sugar. Look at what you do to him. He’s never out of control. Seeing you rolling your hips in this slip of a dress is making him insane.” Holden gripped my hand and lifted it to grip his head. “And Barrett. You should be off-limits, but the man is seconds from burning this place down to touch you again.”
I gripped his hair and tore my eyes from Dominic to Barrett. There was nothing of the man I’d known before in who I saw. He was just as on edge as Dominic.
“And me?” Holden spun me around again and yanked me flush to his chest. Gripping my face in his hands, he lowered his mouth to mine and kissed me, pouring all of his passion into it. His tongue stroked my lips and danced with mine as I parted my lips for him.
I held on to his sides and tilted my head to give him even more. His shadow of a beard was rough on my skin, but I liked the sting. When I sucked the tip of his tongue he groaned and pulled back slowly, not letting me out of his orbit, though.
“Me?” He licked his lips and grinned. “I’d serve shitty pasta for the rest of my life if I could get one more kiss.”
I pretended to feel faint with one hand dramatically held to my forehead. “Not shitty pasta!”
He glanced over my shoulder and nodded. “Looks like it’s time to move on.”
I pouted. “I’m not ready for my date to end.”
Dominic spoke from behind me. “It’s not ending, Sugar.”
I turned and smiled up at him. “Best news ever.”
His lips quirked up. “Come on. We’ve got a car waiting.”
I stretched up and kissed his cheek. “Where are we going?”
He rested a big hand on my waist and sighed. “Somewhere with less of an audience.”
I swayed into him. “Trying to get me alone, Dominic?”
When his eyes focused on mine, there was a dark promise in them that I didn’t even know what to do with. While my heart thumped and my core tried to jump for joy, I realized that I was probably in over my head.
Dominic lightly brushed his other hand over my hair. “I’m trying to make sure your picture doesn’t end up in the gossip pages.”
I pouted. “Oh.”
“Don’t pout, Sugar.” He smiled. “I’m also trying to get you alone.”
7
***SJ***
Inthebackofthe SUV, I insisted on sitting in Dominic’s lap. If it were a real date, I’d do it, I insisted. Finally, Dominic pulled me into his lap and rested his hand high on my inner thigh. Every bump the SUV hit was an act of torture. By the time I realized I was hoping his hand would slip and he’d touch my core, I was just drunk enough to not judge myself.
I leaned back against his chest and rested my head on his shoulder. His breath went straight down the front of my dress and the heavy weight of his other hand across my stomach was another act of rigorous self-torture. I had never been so turned on in my life and there had never been a more inappropriate time.
Barrett’s voice was jarring as he suddenly growled, “Eyes on the road, asshole.”
I turned my head to look at him and saw him glaring at the driver. When he looked back at me, his eyes softened and he smiled. He also grabbed Dominic’s discarded suit jacket and pulled it over my thighs. I realized what the driver had been looking at and scowled at the back of his head before curling tighter into their embrace.