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“I saw Ocean perform.” Heat immediately engulfed my body, my memory transporting me back to when I first saw him dance. I had to push it away to focus on the conversation with Greer. “Dexen saw the way I was drawn to Ocean and said he had a surprise for me.”
Greer leaned forward. “No way. You got a private dance from Ocean? Shit, what did that run you? Even I won’t pony up the money for him.” I didn’t need to know who my brother spent his money on. Not in this lifetime or the next.
“I didn’t pay. Dex said it was on the house.”
“That bastard. I want a free dance from Ocean.”
It was my turn to lean forward, though I wasn’t kind when I did so. A possessive instinct rose in me so fast I bared my teeth at my brother.
A tennis ball hit my forehead. He must have had it waiting in hand. “Snap out of it, Pey. Come back to the conversation.”
“I got my dance and then some.”
“We’re not supposed to touch the dancers. I’m surprised you don’t have bruises from the guards. Dex doesn’t fuck around.” Dexen and Greer had… I didn’t want to call it a relationship. They were friends. Had been for as long as we’d known him. There was more to it though. They casually fucked.
“Dex told me he’d be fine if I broke the rules.”
“That’s it. No more Christmas cards for him. He’s cut off.” Greer had always been the more light-hearted of the two of us. He was calm, trying to defuse situations while I stood ready to jump in and do whatever needed to be done.
“Greer, focus.”
“Sorry, but you can’t blame me.”
Here was the part of the story where I betrayed a secret. I wouldn’t tell anyone but my brother. The man was a vault with reinforced steel and fourteen locks. Uncrackable.
“There was a reason. I know Ocean.”
“You know…” His eyes widened. “Is it Perry?”
“Don’t you think if he was dancing on the side we’d fucking know?” I said louder than intended but for someone so smart, my brother wasn’t thinking. We both glanced down at his phone to make sure Perry was still working upstairs.
“Okay, so it’s not Perry.”
I had to resist rolling my eyes. “Stellar observation.” We’d seen Perry with his shirt off countless times. He was not Ocean.
“Who is it then?”
“You’re not going to believe me.”
“Try me.”
“Dominic.” Even saying his name sent fire through my veins. Like the song conditioned my dick to respond, his name had a similar effect.
“What?” he yelled. “You can’t be serious!”
“Why the hell would I make that up?”
“How did you figure it out or did he tell you?”
I shook my head. “We… went further than a dance. His mask stayed on, but he was so close I could smell him. Yesterday in the office, he was acting weird. He fell off his chair and I went to check to make sure he was okay and that scent, that vanilla, I knew it was him. The eyes were the same piercing gray. And he knew. He fucking crawled away from me.”
“He crawled?”
I recounted the story with the spider, which had Greer cracking up. “Perry said you were afraid of a spider, and I didn’t believe him. This just keeps getting better,” he said between laughs. “No wonder you’re fucked up over it. What are you going to do?”
I scrubbed my hand over the top of my head, letting the short hairs rake over my palm. “I have no damn clue.”
He sobered quickly, studying me. “You want Dominic. That’s why you brought up not doing things for yourself. You want to see if there’s something between you two.”
