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“Hot ass?” she breathed.
“So hot. You look around at the guys on the floor, let them know you’re interested. Eventually, a man will come closer, start dancing next you. Check him out. If you’re not attracted to him, move closer to your girlfriends or leave the floor. If you like him, smile, bat those long eyelashes. Give him a little encouragement. You hold all the power in this.”
Penny lifted her face, giving him an up-close glimpse of her gorgeous blue eyes. Her eyelids fluttered dramatically, an adorable grin crossing her face. “Like this?”
He suspected she meant her words as a joke, but it fell short. All the math in the world wouldn’t help him beat back this hard-on.
“Are you interested?” he asked, not entirely sure his question was merely part of the lesson.
“Yes,” she whispered.
He used his hands on her hips to spin her around, her back to him. He pulled her close, the two of them moving in time with the music, bumping and grinding together like horny teenagers at the homecoming dance. There was no way Penny couldn’t feel what she was doing to him. However, rather than pull away, she pressed her ass harder against his crotch.
Fuck. He wasn’t sure who the teacher and who the student was at this point.
He spun her to face him once more and she lifted her hands to his shoulders, her eyes cast downward, as if she was embarrassed.
“Look at me.”
She did as he asked, and he shifted closer, his gaze lowering to her lips. She ran her tongue over the lower one, wetting it.
Gage was a second away from taking her up on that unspoken invitation to kiss when a drunk woman bumped into them, roughly pushing them apart.
“Ssshit,” the woman slurred. “I’m so fucking s-sorry. Too much tequila.” She burst into hysterical laughter, as if tequila was the funniest thing on the planet.
The moment ruined, Penny looked a little lost. He’d let this go way too far.
Time to retreat. He gestured toward the bar, indicating he was ready to leave the dance floor. He didn’t dare touch her back or take her hand, for fear he wouldn’t lead her to her girlfriends but rather to his apartment.
“You got it now?” he asked, fighting like the devil to return them to solid ground. A lesson. It was just another lesson. Nothing else.
“I do. Though it’s not really dancing, is it? I mean, it’s just sort of bouncing in place.”
He laughed. “Yeah. It is, but dance like that, and the men will start swarming likes bees to honey.”
“Okay. Thanks, Gage. You’re a great teacher.”
He winked, and then she turned to find her friends while he returned to his table. Mercifully, Matt was gone. Gage didn’t fool himself into thinking he’d escaped the third degree he was going to receive from his brother. At most, he’d just delayed it. But at least it would give him some time to figure out how to explain something to his brother that he no longer understood himself.
He took a sip of his bourbon, then—because he couldn’t help himself—he looked for Penny.
“Damn,” he murmured when he spotted her. A couple of guys were at the table she was sharing with her friends. The men had made their move on Liza and Keeley while Gage was teaching her how to dance.
Of course, the deejay picked that moment to play a slow song. The guys asked Liza and Keeley to dance, and Penny waved them away, encouraging them to go.
He was tempted to cross the room to ask her to dance, but he’d already interfered too much. Penny needed more experience when it came to meeting people in a club. She was serious about her desire to find a guy, and while Gage might be interested for the moment, he was never going to be anyone’s boyfriend.
Penny sipped her drink then pulled her phone out of the pocket of her jacket. She messed around with it for a few minutes, and Gage couldn’t help but wonder with some amusement if she was hunting forPokémonorCandy Crush-ing it.
When the slow song ended, a faster one beginning, Liza dashed over to the table to drag Penny out to join them.
She was one hell of a student, as she’d already mastered his dance lesson. Her hips swayed in a slow, sensuous motion that was pure sin, and the erection he’d managed to will away started to emerge again.
Penny hung in there for three more songs, but it was obvious she was the odd guy out, and as the men moved closer to her friends, he could see her confidence wavering.
Fuck this.
Time to intervene.
