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Her expression softened a touch. “Thank you.”
“He loves that song,” Sabine spoke up. “I swear he’s made up twelve different remixes for it.”
Both Zara and Dave turned wide eyes to her.
“I didn’t know you had heard those.” Further, he didn’t know she had picked up the differences between each one.
“I listen to everything you say,” Sabine said with a snort that sounded like “duh.”
He chuckled and slid his hand to her hip where he applied pressure so she’d lean more fully into him. “Oh, Sabine, you are hammered,” he said around a smile.
She just shrugged. “We did shots.”
“Did ya?” He pressed his lips to her temple. She was too cute.
“I’ve always thought that a collab between us would be a good idea,” Zara said, drawing his attention away from Sabine’s smile.
Dave wasn’t sure if he successfully hid his shock or not. “I would love that. Truly.”
Zara glanced at Sabine and then back at Dave. “Lemon mouth?”
“Yes!” Sabine patted the bar. “May we please have a lemon wedge, Henry?” she asked the bartender.
Dave was pretty sure Henry would run naked through a shopping mall if Sabine asked him to.
She took the lemon wedge, turned in Dave’s arm, and held it up for him.
He held her gaze and opened his mouth.
She bit her bottom lip and put the wedge in his teeth. He bit down and closed his lips around it
Sabine and Zara started counting out loud, their voices gathering volume the higher they counted.
When Dave’s eyes were watering and he couldn’t feel his gums anymore, he took the wedge out.
Sabine stuck her tongue between her teeth with a squeal. “You’re way better at that than me. I can’t hang.”
The DJ running the music called for dancers on the floor and the song that began playing was “Animal” by Neon Trees. Sabine grabbed Zara’s hand and took off for the floor.
Dave eased his elbows onto the bar, as he faced the dancefloor.
And he just watched her.
Her arms over her head, dancing like she wasn’t surrounded by the most important people in the industry. Just radiating joy and freedom and all the things he loved about being alive.
If there was ever going to be someone who could do this with him, live this life between lemon mouth shenanigans and reaching for the stars, it would be Sabine.
He’d known it for a while but having her here, immersed in the rest of his world, it was more than obvious.
Maybe the vow of celibacy was working. Because he was thinking more clearly than he could ever remember.
He knew decision time was coming.
Either ask her to cross that line, take a risk with him—the kind of risk that could be the ruin of them both.
Or maintain course.
Friends forever.
