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He didn’t back away, and she didn’t move. Anticipation thickened in the air, as I watched them emit enough sparks to light this entire area. How was this so infuriatingly hot?
“And then the spanking commences.” Deacon slapped one of his hands with the other, sending a loudclapechoing through the basement.
Brooke’s whimper made me instantly hard.
Deacon leaned closer to her until his mouth was near her ear. “And that’s how that works.”
Was it hot in here, or was it the two of them? Did they remember I was here? Should I say something? Leave quietly and hope Deacon had details later that he was willing to share? Fade quietly into the shadows and see what happened next?
“If you’d like a hands-on demonstration, I can give you one.” Deacon’s voice was low, with an underlying growl.
Pick me. I wasn’t sure if I wanted that or to keep watching.
“I might need—” The opening bars of7 Ringsfilled the room, cutting Brooke off and shattering the mood. “It’s Paige.” She strained, which sent her straight into Deacon, who caught her with his hands on her hips.
And they were frozen in time again.
Just fuck already.
The song stopped, and the silence was as deafening as the music had been.
“I need to call her back.” Brooke stepped away, extracting her phone as she walked.
“Fuck,” Deacon muttered.
I knew what he meant. “Come back tomorrow with real lighting and finish exploring?”
“Good idea.”
“Dude. You have a full-blown actual dungeon in your basement.”
Deacon gave a brief shake of his head and turned to me. “Awesome, right? Think I could introduce her to more of the pieces?”
At least his mind was in the same place as mine. “Signs don’t point tono.”
“I’m sorry. I need to go.” Brooke called from the stairs before she scurried up.
“Fuck.” Deacon slumped back against the Berkley horse. “As long as she comes back tomorrow.”
Maybe watching this slow burn wasn’t as much fun as I thought.
FOUR
BROOKE
It was chilly outside,but the heat from my encounter with Deacon kept me warm from the inside as I drove home to deal with my teenage daughter’s latest crisis.
I typically brushed off Deacon’s flirting as him being him, but today… I couldn’t get how close he’d been out of my head. Was I really going to take him up on his offer fordating instructions? It was tempting in a way few things were, even without the details of what he had in mind.
But first, I’d deal with Paige’s woes. She’d called me in tears. Their high school Sweethearts’ Dance was girl’s choice, and a lot of the girls in her school went all out with theirasks. She preferred not to draw much attention to herself, but she’d put some effort and creativity into the invitation for the guy she wanted to go with.
He’d saidno.
While she was telling me her story between sobs, I could hear her twin brother, Bryan, in the background. He’d offered to string the guy up for being an idiot.
The two of them were growing up so fast. I swore they were babies just yesterday, and now…
I’d made it clear that they could live at home as long as they needed. There would be no kicking them out at graduation or on their eighteenth birthday, but Paige planned to move out of state and while Bryan wanted to stay here, I doubted he’d be living at home much longer.
