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I didn’t think about it. I didn’t obsess over it. I just said the first thing that came to my mind. “Yes.” And I meant it. If this man didn’t get me out of here now, I was going to climb him like a tree right in the middle of the dance floor.
He pulled out of my embrace, grabbed my arms from around him, and pushed them down at my sides slowly like he didn’t want to let me go. He backed out of our kiss but only far enough so he looked down at me again, his eyes scanning my face in that way that made me feel uncomfortably sexy. I could have gotten lost in that feeling, in those eyes.
“Emily.” I heard from somewhere in my daze. It didn’t quite register at first that someone was saying my name until I felt a touch on my shoulder.
Suddenly, I was transported back to the rowdy bar. People surrounded us, dancing and drinking, laughing. It was loud and too much, and I wanted to step closer to my handsome stranger. I wanted to go away with him again.
“Emily.” I heard this time. I turned toward my name where I found Holden and Miranda standing close to us, Holden’s questioning eyes on the man behind me, Miranda grinning at me like a damn fool.
Holden’s hard stare left my guy and landed on me. They softened slightly before he said loudly enough I could hear him over the crowd, “You good?”
Holden had a wrinkle in the middle of his forehead that wasn’t usually there and I wanted to tell him that I was great. That I hadn’t felt this good in a long time. That he needed to chill the fuck out. He’d wanted me to get out of the house and have a good time, right? And here I was doing just that.
I reached out and squeezed his hand. “Yeah, I’m good, Hold. You okay?” I asked because he was once again eyeing the dude behind me like he wanted to interrogate him.
“Yooohooo,” I said loudly, waving my hand in Holden’s face to get his attention. “What are you doing here? This is supposed to be a girls’ night out.”
Miranda’s eyes got big again behind me, but she turned away like she wasn’t getting involved in this mess, but I didn’t miss the sly smile she had on her face that said this whole thing was more than entertaining and she appreciated it.
“I thought it was, too,” Holden answered, looking pointedly around me at my stranger.
I knew what he was doing. I knew he was trying to keep me safe. But I didn’t need him to do that. I was good.
I leaned into him, close to his ear so he could hear me well. “I’m good, Holden. I’m just having a little bit of fun.”
He looked me over like he was checking me for injury or something. “You gonna introduce me to your new friend?” he asked, still all business.
“Nope,” I answered back quickly. Hell no, I wasn’t introducing him. How the hell could I even do that? I didn’t even know the guy myself. And that felt so naughty. So bad. That I’d been practically dry humping and making out with a stranger and didn’t even know his name.
I felt a small smile creep across my face at the thought. I’d lost my damn mind and I didn’t even care.
Holden let out a deep sigh that I couldn’t hear, but I could see. It made me want to laugh. What the hell was happening to me?
God bless Miranda, she stepped forward and grabbed Holden to put him out of his misery because he wasn’t going to get anywhere with me. I was a big girl. I made my own decisions and my own mistakes, too.
Miranda seemed to be trying to reason with the crazy man that was Holden, so I turned back to my friend, only to be immediately pulled into his embrace again. He leaned over, pressing his lips to my ear. “Tell your friends goodbye.”
I didn’t know what the hell I was thinking. The man could have been trying to take me back to his home and murder me. But maybe for once, I wasn’t thinking. Maybe for once, I was just feeling and I didn’t want to stop. Not right now.
I wanted to do something that felt good and something just for me. If only for tonight.
“Okay,” I whispered back, my heart galloping against his chest, anticipation vibrating across my skin. I wondered if he could feel how nervous I was. I wondered if he knew I wasn’t this type of woman. I wondered if he was this type of man.
But I told myself it didn’t matter. This was one night. I’d allow myself this one time. I’d have fun and so would he.
It didn’t matter what he did after I was done with him.
“Your friends good?” I asked, not bothering to turn around as the tiny woman followed me into the alleyway behind the club.
I didn’t give a fuck about her friends, truth be told. They were a means to an end. And for some reason, I needed this woman like I needed my next breath, so that seemed like the cordial thing to ask.
I didn’t need to see her to know that she was there right behind me. From the moment she’d stepped into Bitty’s, she’d been on my radar. For someone so little, her presence was bigger than life.
“Yeah, they’re fine,” she said softly, her voice lower, more sultry than I’d expected, and I felt it right in my already hard dick. I needed to get her home and get her under me.
For fuck’s sake, the woman was driving me crazy.
She’d driven me insane from the moment she’d stepped into my stomping grounds. I’d had a shit day and an even worse evening, so I’d popped into my local spot a few blocks down from my place in downtown Columbia to have a drink.
