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“Hey, wanna dance with me?” I asked.
“I shouldn’t,” she said. “It wouldn’t be professional.”
“Fuck professional. No one is going to judge you here.” I pointed to both sets of parents getting down on the dance floor, shaking it even harder than their children as everyone clapped. The Sweets and the Baldwins knew how to have a good time.
Alivia tried to suppress a smile.
“Come on, you know you want to,” I said, reaching for her hand. “Show me what you can do with those suspenders.”
I had no doubt that Alivia would know how to move, and I was right. She was just as graceful on the dance floor as she was everywhere else, and I wanted to ask her if she’d taken classes, because it sure looked like it.
We danced in a group with Linley, Em, Natalie, Paige, and Esme, as Gray and his friends did their thing trying to outdo each other with various breakdancing movies that Linley had to tell them to stop doing because no one needed to end up in the hospital. I mean, if there were any injuries, there were several medical professionals in attendance, but still.
“My wedding coordinator has moves!” Linley yelled, clapping for Alivia, who blushed, but didn’t stop moving.
The DJ switched to a slow song to give the couples a chance to dance together, and I looked at Alivia.
“All right,” she said, reaching for me.
“I didn’t ask you to dance,” I said as she rested her hands on my hips.
“Yeah you did,” she said, pulling me closer. I wrapped my arms around her shoulders, pushing our bodies together in a way that made it hard to concentrate on dancing, even though we were just swaying from side to side.
“See? This isn’t so bad,” I said, leaning back so I could see her face.
“It’s not bad at all,” she said, looking down at me. There was fire in her eyes and I didn’t doubt that if we weren’t in the middle of a wedding reception, she would drag me to the nearest corner and have her way with me.
“You have to stop looking at me like that in public,” I said.
“Like what?” she said, a smirk on her face.
I narrowed my eyes. “You know exactly what you’re doing to me.”
Her fingers gripped my hips, and I had to swallow a moan.
“And you know what you’re doing to me with that dress,” she said.
It was true; the dress showed off all of my best assets. Linley had been kind in telling us the color of dress she wanted us to wear but leaving the style up to us. I’d found this dress by chance in a little secondhand shop near Castleton and I’d known it was the one.
“What are you doing tonight?” she asked, and my heart leapt.
“Well, I’m probably going to be extremely tired, but I can always drink a little bit of coffee and rally,” I said. “What did you have in mind?”
“You, coming back to my room with me,” she said.
“Mmmm, it’s a good thing I have an overnight bag in the back of my car for emergencies, isn’t it?”
“That’s perfect,” she said as the song ended.
“I’ll see you later,” she said. “Just come find me when you’re ready and we’ll sneak away.”
Her hands slipped from me and I wanted to reach out and pull her back, but I knew if we danced together too much that it would cause speculation, and she was still on the clock, technically.
I watched her go and have some words with one of the caterers, and then disappear across the lawn and up the stairs.
Natalie wouldn’t stop giving me looks as I rejoined my friends for a loud dance and singalong to one of our favorite songs before I had to sit down and take a breather.
“You two looked really cute together,” Natalie said. “For real.”
