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Too late, Paige pivoted on her stool to see Drake grinning at her as he tucked his thumbs in his belt loops and rocked back on his heels.
Heat scorched her cheeks—and everywhere else, including between her thighs. Suddenly her bikini panties seemed as substantial as air. “Oh. Um. Hi.”
“Hi yourself.” He inclined his chin at the stool beside her. “This seat taken?”
“Yes.” She smiled. “By you.”
Sadie gave her a completely non-discreet wink and shifted toward Drake. “What’s your poison?”
“PBR’s fine. Thanks, Sadie.”
“Pleasure’s all mine.” Sadie moved away to fill his mug, then set it in front of him. “Let me know if you need anything else. Like, say, another huge drink.”
Paige covered her face with her hands and laughed. “God. Can the floor just swallow me up?”
“No. But you can spend the night with me.” Drake’s rich, warm voice drew a shiver from her. “How’s that sound?”
She dropped her hands and glanced at him, her breath catching at the intensity in his dark-blue eyes. Though his grin was still in place, it looked forced. Was he worried she’d say no? Or worried for another reason?
Swallowing hard, she toyed with the handle of her mug. “What about Colt?” she asked quietly.
“He’s got other plans.” He shrugged, but she could tell he wasn’t unaffected.
Had they argued about him coming to see her, solo? Or had Colt wanted it that way? She had so many questions, her head was bursting with them.
“Does he know you were going to ask me out?”
His lips twitched as he leaned closer to speak next to her ear. “Why, sweetheart, we can certainly go out if you’d like, but I was more asking you to stay in.”
Holy shit. She was going to spontaneously combust if he kept it up. Hell, just sitting next to him with the heat from his legs radiating into her thighs through her sundress was enough to make her implode.
She shut her eyes. “In sounds good to me,” she said breathlessly.
“In sounds real good to me too.” Apparently oblivious to the rest of the patrons in the bar—or maybe not caring either way—he reached out to close his broad, calloused hand over hers where
it rested on the bar. “I was thinking we could go down to the Gulch. How’s that sound to you?”
Her gaze flew to his. “The Gulch? Colt’s Gulch?”
Now he smiled, big and wide. “One and the same.”
“And he’s not there?”
Drake shook his head. “Not yet. But I have a feeling he’ll show up.”
She couldn’t help laughing. “Why, you son of a gun. You’re trying to tempt him into showing up by pissing him off.”
He laughed and took a long drink. “Something like that,” he admitted.
“You really think that’s going to work? If he said he has plans, maybe he really doesn’t care what we do.”
And oh, that hurt. She could try to deny it forever, but the clench in her belly told the tale. She’d missed Drake and she’d missed Colt, and being with one and not the other might be nice but it didn’t feel quite…right.
God, talk about greedy. Most women settled for one man, didn’t they? They didn’t take lovers in pairs.
“Oh, he cares,” Drake said, drinking again. “You can count on that. So the question is, are you game to head on over there after we’re done here?”
“Won’t the Bennetts mind?”
