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Well, that wasn’t exactly true. Around Halo, those inches were becoming the norm, especially since the guys had left and I’d caught him watching me with a new kind of hunger in his eyes. One that was pretty damn close to mine, if I had to place bets.
Halo had gone from looking at me with curiosity and confusion, to openly checking me out, and that made both me, and my dick, ecstatic. Last night had clearly been a turning point for the angel, judging by the blistering looks and that comment he’d made about wondering what I’d look like coming, and there was no way I was about to let this opportunity, this opening Halo had given me, pass me by.
“I’ll behave. We might be able to get a little more done today,” Halo said as he looked at me from behind the safety of the closed piano, which was on the opposite side of the room to where I’d been on the couch, and that just wouldn’t do anymore.
“There’s no way we’re going to get anymore done,” I said as I walked over and stopped at the end of the piano.
“You don’t know that.”
“Yeah, I do. Nothing good comes when you’re forcing it, Angel. Let it go. We can come back tomorrow.”
Halo let out a grumble and tossed the notepad on top of the piano, then he looked down to the keys as though they’d help him find what he was missing.
Aww, the poor guy was frustrated—join the fucking club.
“Look,” I said as I made my way to him. “Why don’t we get out of here for a while? The guys were right—it’ll help clear your head.”
Halo turned on the seat and angled his face up until he was looking at me. “Get out of here? No offense, but watching women in bikinis is not going to inspire me right now.”
I chuckled and placed a hand on the piano so I could lean down until our lips were but an inch apart. “Thank God for that, otherwise this will be really awkward for you.”
Before Halo could ask what, I tangled my other hand in his hair and took his mouth with mine, taking the kiss I’d been denied until this very moment. Halo’s lips parted in an instant, his tongue sliding over my lip to enter my mouth. I twisted my fingers in his hair and groaned, and as though he knew what I was thinking, Halo began to move.
He pushed up to his feet, his mouth never leaving mine, as he took a step closer to me, his hands going for the waist of my jeans, his fingers sliding through the loops to tug me to him until I had his back against the piano, and my front against his—but then Halo stopped.
“Angel?”
“I’m sorry,” he said, putting a palm to my chest. “I’m just all up in my head right now.”
I took a step back and shoved my hands into the pockets of my jeans to give him the space he seemed to need, and let out a sigh. “You need to relax.”
Halo laughed and shook his head. “Yeah, this is not helping that plan at all.”
“It will,” I said. “Eventually.”
“Right. But until then, you’re in my head, MGA is in my head, the millions of people who watched the video are—”
“Hey, hey, hey,” I said, moving back into his personal space so I could take hold of Halo’s shirt. I could sense the anxiety attack waiting to happen, and found myself trying to ease his panic. “Breathe. I have an idea. One that might relax and inspire you.”
Halo took hold of my wrists and stared into my eyes. “Pretty sure I felt your idea of relaxation pushing up against me a second ago, Viper.”
I chuckled and raised a hand so I could trace one of my thumbs over his cheekbone—because fuck me, I couldn’t stop myself. “Feel free to use me to relax any time you want, Angel.”
“Such a generous offer. I appreciate you sacrificing yourself for my needs.”
“Hey, I’m all about lending a hand to help a fellow man.” I let go of him and took a step away, knowing if I stayed within touching distance, this would end the way it usually did whenever Halo was around me in private these days.
“Just a hand?” His lips curved.
“Or a mouth. Or anything your…heart desires.”
“Not sure it’s my heart controlling my desires right now, but I’ll think about it and let you know.”
What was that song I was singing earlier? That Angel, what a tease. “Sooo if we aren’t going to be working and we’re not going to be fucking, we need to get the hell away from this empty house and the twelve bedrooms in it.”
Halo laughed as he pushed off the piano. “Have you got any suggestions?”
