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Chapter Twenty-Six
“Did you find it?” Maizy called through the closed bathroom door as she adjusted the skirt of the belly dancing costume around her hips. She’d lost a few pounds since the last time she’d worn it, so it rode a tiny bit lower on her hips. She smiled to herself thinking the bears wouldn’t mind. They hadn’t seen her belly dance since the night they’d first laid eyes on her almost a year ago.
She gave the coin scarves tied around her hips a shake and giggled as Heath called through the door, “Damn, I think I love that sound. I found it.”
“Can you put it on in the bedroom for me?”
“Sure.”
“Will you lower the lights?” she called as she adjusted her cleavage in the bra-like sequined and beaded top.
“Done already, baby. Spencer even lit candles.”
“Aw, that’s so romantic!”
“Oh, did I say Spencer? I meant me. Totally me. Ow!”
Laughter bubbled from her as she lined her eyes with her black eyeliner pencil, giving them an exotic look. She removed the crystal hairpins and finger-combed her hair so it billowed in wild curls all around her. She had a feeling the fancy hairdo wouldn’t survive the aftermath of her belly dance.
She clasped her ankle bracelets on and slid the jeweled band with dangling crystals against her forehead and fixed it in place, then put on her bracelets. She figured she might as well give them the full effect as she smiled in the mirror almost not recognizing herself but oh-so happy to see that exotic girl again.
“Ready?” she called, bending over to fluff her hair out again.
“Yes,” they all growled in unison.
“Push ‘play’ please.” She’d warmed up earlier, mindful that two of them would unfortunately be leaving in just a little while to go to the Twisted Bull.
She could hear the synthesizer playing and shut off the light and opened the master bathroom door. The shades were closed, darkening the room, which was bathed in candlelight. She slid her hand up the doorframe, displaying her bejeweled arm as she emerged from the dark.
Cody reclined in a chair in the corner, his long legs bent and feet spread wide. He’d removed his jacket and unbuttoned his shirt. Heath lay back on pillows piled up against the headboard, and she noticed the bed was turned down. He’d removed his tunic, revealing the broad, tanned expanse of his chest. His bare feet were crossed at the ankles. Spencer stood near the dresser, leaning against the wall, his arms crossed over his massive chest.
The exotic beat of the drums and the siren song of the guitar released the gypsy inside of her as she glided across the floor and began the dance she still knew by heart. Every roll of her hips and ripple of her shoulders and flick of her hair was familiar, yet felt new. Maybe that was because it was for them…the men she’d truly been dancing for a year ago…the reason she’d taken belly dancing to begin with, perhaps?
She let out a deep breath and smiled as the music took hold, teasing her body into the dance’s undulating, enticing rhythms. At the first chorus she danced across the room to Cody. He leaned his head back and watched her with warm eyes as she danced for him, swaying her hips until his dark eyes followed their every movement.
Knowing he was riveted, she shimmied her hips in a tiny, rapid movement that set her coin scarves into a blur of metallic color and sound, and then shimmied her breasts for him until he clenched a fist and smiled at her, perhaps fighting the urge to reach out.
She flirted with her eyes and then turned to shimmy her ass, making the coins ring together. She moved her ass in an enticing rhythm, feeling beautiful and powerful as she arched her back and reached her arms over her head in the rhythm of the dance. As she undulated, she reached backward, nearly touching his chest but not quite.
She’d gone to him first because it had felt like the right thing to do. She responded to him as an alpha, just as his brothers did, not because she was weak but because she felt safe within his strength. The stretch felt luxurious as she maintained it for a couple of seconds before standing upright and giving him another shake of her hips before spinning and dancing over to Spencer in little playful steps.
