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“My cousin taught me how to dance. His big sisters taught him

and told him that a woman wanted a dance partner who could lead

properly. Not just guide them around in a circle or lead them where

they wanted to go. They taught him how to take charge of the dance,

and by leading his dance partner well, she would learn to trust him no

matter how complicated the dance. He, in turn, taught me. He spoiled

me, actually, because not many men lead as decisively as I’d like.

Then…there’s you.” His eager cock responded to her husky tone,

swelling with pride.

“What about me? Do you think you can trust me and allow me to

lead?”

Would she learn to trust him? He didn’t think trusting him was her

problem. He hadn’t offered lots of fancy, poetic words, but he was

pretty straightforward about how he felt. There was no permanent

commitment between them yet because he sensed she wasn’t ready

for that. Trusting him wasn’t the problem. Trusting herself was.



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“Well, if you must know, you’re an even better dance partner than

he was. Want to know why?” she whispered as she drew closer. Her

soft lips brushed his earlobe.

Ash nodded, and she whispered for his ears only, “My cousin was

good, but being my cousin, he never made me yearn to rip our clothes

off and let him have his wild and wicked way with me like you do.”

The tip of her tongue flicked against his ear, sending a shot of lust

straight to his cock.

“Damn, I feel the same way,” he murmured in response. “When

you melt against me like this and we move together like we were

already connected…mmm.”

“The feeling is totally mutual, being up against your strong, hard

body.”

“Are you wet from thinking about it?” he asked as his hand slid

down over her ass, sliding his fingers back and forth over one of the

straps of her garter belt, grinning when she whimpered softly.

“Uh-huh, since our first set of dances earlier.”

“Good, then I’m not the only one enduring a little bit of torture

tonight. When we get home, will you model those high heels and this

garter belt for me?”

“Big man, I’ll do whatever you want me to,” she whispered

sexily, her lips brushing against his ear before she flicked his earlobe

with the tip of her tongue again.

Juliana giggled when she heard his deep, rumbling growl of

response, and he couldn’t resist the urge to press her to him, grinding

his erection against her abdomen. She looked up at him. “Ash, I want

you to know something.”

“What, darlin’?” he asked, looking into her warm, open gaze, his

heart thumping at the love and desire he saw plainly there. She rubbed

her fingers against the fabric over his chest, and this time she didn’t

hesitate.

“It’s high time I told you I—”



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Whatever Juliana would’ve said to him was cut off abruptly as a

couple crashed into her as they whirled around on the dance floor,

nearly knocking her down. If he hadn’t been holding her so close, she

would’ve been flattened on the slippery floor as her feet were

knocked out from under her.

“What the fuck!” the drunken blonde yelled too loudly. “If you

ain’t going to dance, get off the fucking dance floor, bitch!” The

bimbo laughed loudly as her equally drunken dance partner twirled

the blonde away.

“Whoa, darlin’. You okay?” Ash asked as he helped her from the

edge of the dance floor.

“What the hell was that all about?”

He held her to his side as he helped her back to the table, a little

anxious to see if she was all right. The blonde had collided with her

pretty hard and ruined their moment.

“You okay? I’m glad I had a hold of you, or she would have

flattened you.”

“I’m okay,” she said, checking her stockings. “No runs, no pain.

They surprised me, that’s all.” He helped her into her seat and they

took a little break, sipping from their drinks and chatting with the

others.

Adam released Grace from his lap, and Ash saw her blow a kiss to

where Ethan now stood in the DJ booth watching their table. Ethan

returned the gesture with a smile. Ash had been around long enough

to know what that meant. Grace sidled up to Juliana.

“We girls are going to dance. Why don’t you come with us?”



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Ash schooled his wide grin as Grace led Juliana away from him,

back to the dance floor. They were quickly joined by Rachel Wolf,

Rosemary Piper, Bernadette Carter, Kathleen Stevens, Corina Scott,