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“Everyone’s heading back to the room.”
Kaisin hesitates, glancing at Lex’s back.
“Looks like you’re all set,” I tell him with another pat to his shoulder that forces him a couple more feet away from Lex.
“I’m waiting on Lenox.”
Lex turns her head to acknowledge her brother-in-law. “I still haven’t gotten my drink yet.”
“Good idea. I could use one, too,” I say to her, then look at him. “We’ll meet you in there.”
With no choice but to agree, Kaisin nods, saying, “Yeah, okay.”
“Subtle,” she tsks as soon as he’s gone, but I don’t care. Subtlety wasn’t my goal. Getting his body off hers was.
“Got my wallet for me?”
Without looking at me, she holds it up between her trigger and middle finger. I snatch it and immediately search its contents.
“Did you take anything?”
Out of the corner of my eye, I notice her shrug a bare shoulder.
Everything in my wallet accounted for, I return it where it belongs.
“Like what? The grand I just gifted you?”
She might not have stolen anything but she did go through my wallet because the ten hundred-dollar bills she attached to the Chaste Tree are the only bills I got on hand right now.
Finger-combing my hair, droplets of sweat fly in all different directions, a few onto Lex’s back. I eye them, wanting to lick each one off before sucking the porcelain skin clean.
“I thought you would’ve put that money toward your wedding.”
The bartender approaches, so I order a snakebite shot using top shelf whiskey, making sure it goes on Lenox Debrosse’s tab.
“You go through my phone, too?” I say instead.
“Without the passcode?” she asks just as evasively, not exactly denying it.
“I’m gonna need that back now.”
She finally turns her head, not meeting my gaze but dragging hers along the length of my body, raising my temperature quicker than anything on that stage did.
With her other hand, she slides my phone across the bar top to the spot next to her. I take that seat just as our glasses are set in front of us, hers an old-fashioned full of crystal clear liquid I can’t identify.
Lex’s gaze never straying from my face, I finish mine in one swallow.
“Do you always treat Kordin’s employees to nights out?”
“No, never.”
“Then why now?”
“You can’t throw a bachelor party after the wedding.”
I shake my head and face forward again, tipping my glass at the bartender for another when I catch his eye.
“That’s not what I meant. Why go through all this trouble for someone you hate, especially if you’ve never done anything like this before?”
