Secret Moves(26)

"Really? Who?"

"Me."

"What?!"

"Why are you so surprised, Dyl?" Adam asked. "You said yourself the two of them were like magnets to each other."

"I thought they'd agreed not to sleep together. That's what Ari said," Dylan explained to Adam.

"Well, he's not quite finished telling you everything," Adam said, wagging his eyebrows.

Trey kept an impassive expression.

"What? Tell me," Dylan said.

"I took her to my apartment," Trey answered.

Dylan stared at him in disbelief. "You broke Rule Number One?"

He sighed audibly. "Yes. And we had great fun. And we're having a fling till she goes home. And that's all there is to it."

Dylan raked his fingers through his hair, as if agitated by Trey's news.

"And what's the matter with you?" Trey queried.

"Does Kris know it ends in, what—two and a half weeks?"

"Of course. The fling was her idea. She wanted one and I simply put my hand up for the part."

"Okay. As long as you're clear, Trey." Dylan warned.

"I am. Why do you look worried?"

"Ari and Sam seemed concerned Kris might fall for you. They think she's too attracted for just a fling. They don't want to see her get hurt. You're her first sex partner after she'd broken up with her boyfriend last year."

"Ari told you this?"

"Yes, because she wants me to dissuade you if you ever thought of sleeping with Kris. Now it's too late," Dylan said gravely.

"Come on, it can't be that bad. Kris doesn't seem to have a problem with casual sex," Trey countered.

"Well, apparently Kris is just starting to get back on track emotionally. She was still grieving for her mother, who died two and a half years ago in a car accident, when her ex-boyfriend broke up with her last year to marry one of the dance teachers who worked for them. Kris and her ex ran a dance studio together, you see. She used the pay-out from her mother's life insurance policy to set up that business.

"Then Kris found out her ex had used the business as security for another venture he'd set up, and when that venture went bust, her investment in the business went down the drain with it. She was devastated by that, as you can imagine. She felt she'd let her mother down and squandered the legacy she left her. She had to get an office job, which she was lucky to get because of her dad's connections, and could only manage teaching dance part-time. That depressed her too.

"That's why Sam still worries about her. Kris might look tough and carefree on the outside—that's her personality—but Sam, as well as Ari and Jasmine, kind of feel protective of her because of her recent heartbreaks."

"I didn't know," Trey said softly.

Dylan inhaled deeply. "Well, so now you've slept with her. Like you said, Kris might just be after a good, fun fling while she's here, and the girls might just be worrying over nothing. All I'm saying is, now you know, tread carefully. There will always be complications for you—for us—because of the friendship connection with Ari and Jasmine."

"Yeah. Thanks for letting me know," Trey said, emotions warring within him. A voice inside his head clearly said to back off and stay away. But a weird sensation somewhere within the region of his chest was rebelling against that thought.





CHAPTER TEN





"Come on, Kris, spill," Sam urged as they started boxing the contents of Ari's bookshelf. "I'm dying of curiosity here."

"Me, too," Ari said.

Kris laughed. She'd been refusing to tell Sam about last night until they got to Ari's so she wouldn't have to repeat herself. Plus, she really wanted to enjoy her memories of Trey before getting the inevitable caution and concern the girls would soon be spouting.

"Well, last night, I gave the best strip and lap dance of my life and I got the best sex in return," she finally said.

"Oh, my God. Really?" Ari said in amused wonder. "I hope you weren't lap dancing in the club."

"Of course not. It was at the guy's place. He got a private performance."

"Wow. He must have thought he'd died and gone to heaven," Sam said. "So what's he like?"

"A sex god with the yummiest body," Kris said with a yearning sigh.

"Apart from that!"

"Oh, he's nice…funny…considerate…"

"Are you going to see him again?" Ari asked.

Kris couldn't help the telling smile that spread on her face. "Oh, yeah. He's my fling partner for the next couple of weeks. In fact, he's at my beck and call for that period of time."

Sam frowned at her. "Is this just a fling, or are you hoping for something more with this guy?"