That’s Chandler’s dad’s band, but I guess you knew that, right?”
“I had no idea. Has she toured with him all along?” I knew Steele was a huge band, but I had never heard of Assured Distraction until they began their set at the concert, then I recognized some of their music from the radio.
“No, they didn’t even know each other until a few years ago. She found out when her adoptive parents died in a plane crash.”
“How awful for her to lose her parents and then find out something so life-altering.”
“Yeah, she thought she was without family, but we all rallied around and assured her she was never without family now that she was part of us. We all love her, especially KeeMac.” He laughed at his comment.
“They look like they are so in love.” I sighed a little at that comment.
“What about you, Lola? Have you ever been in love?” He went back to rubbing the circles on my hand.
“Uh, no. I’ve had a few boyfriends in high school and one serious relationship in college, but that’s it. I thought that was love, but let’s just say it ended badly, and I knew then it wasn’t the forever kind of love.” I didn’t want to talk about my ex, so I quickly took the spotlight off of me.
“And you, Gunner? Have you been in love?”
“Uh, that would be a hell no . After the shit we watched Ryan go through with Krissy back home, I don’t think I’ll ever be in love. Of course, that doesn’t mean I can’t be in like a whole lot.” He smiled at me, raising my hand to his mouth, and softly kissed my palm. He added to the seductive sensation by running his warm tongue over my wrist. Oh, he was good. Trying to resist him was going to be a battle I didn’t mind losing.
“Maybe we should dance.” I quickly pulled my hand back and scooted out of the booth, but he followed me out my side and stood beside me with his hand on the small of my back. The warm feel of his huge hand felt right lingering there; an intimate gesture laced with promise.
We stepped on the dance floor where they played a series of upbeat songs, and I raised my hands and danced around him. The beat vibrated everything in me, and I enjoyed the carefree way we moved together. He didn’t move much, but he kept his ever-changing eyes on me the entire time. They were now a lighter shade of turquoise that seemed to speak volumes. I loved looking at them because their ability to change intrigued me. I wondered what they were trying to convey, but deep down, I knew seduction was the underlying theme.
Next, “Love Is” by Inas X came on and slowed things down. I loved dancing to that song. We started moving around each other closely until he wrapped his long fingers around my hips and pulled me allowing little between us. Gunner’s moves matched mine with me so close, and my body loved the feeling. I spun around, and he pulled me back to him tighter with one hand on my hip effectively closing any gap between our bodies. The other hand slid slowly down my arm and then pulled it up to wrap around his neck. Now a fun tune turned into a very seductive melody. He wrapped his free hand around my waist and suddenly my ass was against him in one smooth move. As if we were one moving together in a fluid motion, our hips rolled to the beat of the music causing my body to heat in all the best places. The sensuous feel of being pressed closely to his body not only added to my pleasure but apparently his too, because the hardened steel of his arousal was now pressed tightly against my ass.
His lips found the spot below my ear, and he was leaving intimate kisses along a trail down to the curve of my neck and back up. He stopped over the vein and gave me a little nip that was immediately soothed by his tongue, and I thought I was going to melt into a puddle on the floor but instead felt the puddle in my panties. Thank God I was wearing some.
“Can we leave now, please?” he whispered in my ear in a smooth low tone. “As fun as this is