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never tried it.”
    She blushed and shook her head. Was there another way to do it other than with the lights off and missionary?
    “I thought we were going to talk about something else,” Lily mumbled.
    Eliana sighed. “Like what? The weather?”
    Dante set down their food and left before they could even thank him. Such an odd man .
    “Well,” Jamie said. “It is storming out there harder than usual. I’m surprised we all got here like we did. I had expected that some of us wouldn’t want to drive.”
    Lily shuddered, a tingling feeling running up her spine. “I know what you mean. I was even later than I would have been because I needed to go home and change. I got soaked just walking from my office to my car. In fact, we should probably call it a night soon, just in case the weather gets worse.”
    Everyone nodded, drank from their waters instead, and finished their food as they talked about work and guys. The other patrons filed out as they finished their drinks, so it was only Lily, her friends and Dante left in the bar. No matter how some of them tried to steer their conversation away from the topic of men, they were seven single women after all. Seven single women. Of course they talked about guys and sex. Oh, how she missed sex, even the boring kind she used to have. Maybe with that dark-haired imaginary stranger who kept coming to mind. Oh, yes, someone she didn’t know and who didn’t know about her craziness. Since she was imagining a man anyway, he’d have broad shoulders, caramel skin and would taste like chocolate. Oh, yes, and she’d run her tongue up his abs and maybe down to his—
    “Lily,” Jamie called out, bringing Lily out of her sex-driven thoughts.
    “Yes?” Blood rushed to her cheeks. Did they know what she’d been thinking? From Becca’s raised brow, just maybe.
    “Do you want to go to the park tomorrow afternoon and play dominos again if it’s dry?” Jamie continued. “I’ll have time off, and we haven’t been down there together in ages.”
    One of her horribly kept secrets in life was her dominos addiction. There was just something about using numbers to align pieces in a precise order that got her blood pumping and her competitive edge going crazy. She used to play with her maternal grandfather before he’d passed so long ago. Now she couldn’t stop playing. She’d go down to the park, play dominos with her grandfather’s friends and enjoy herself. Maybe that explained why she couldn’t get a man.
    “I’d love to. Hopefully, this weather will clear up soon.”
    Someone opened the front door to the bar, and a gust of wind knocked over a chair, startling everyone.
    “What—” Lily stood up to see what was wrong when another gust of wind knocked her back. The lights flickered, and the building shook. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Dante run into the room and cover Nadie with his body as the glass windows shattered and a bolt of lightning struck the room. Not a piece of furniture…but the room .
    The bar stood silent in an eerie glow, and time seemed to stop. The bolt of lightning branched out with spindly fingers, its tips reaching Lily and her friends directly in the chest. Lily’s body tingled and her hair stood on end. The lightning bolt ran through her system, sending her into a state of shock. She heard someone scream, and Lily struggled to breathe. Her friends stood around her in the same state. She turned to reach for Jamie’s hand, but the lightning intensified, causing her to fly across the room and she landed with a thud on the floor. Her body convulsed and darkness pulled her under as Dante roared into the night.
     
     
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    Shade pulled his bike over to the side of the road and ripped off his helmet. His hair flew on the wind as the rain pelted him.
    What the hell was that ?
    The road had felt like it had turned into a roller coaster, and a bolt of lightning—an electric shock —had shot through the town. He’d lived through