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over the music, turning my head enough for him to hear me. My long, straight hair blocked the sight of him. “Who could resist an invitation to some place with a name like the Hellfire Club? Of course I showed up.”
    His mouth was still by my ear, sending a simmer of thrills through me. His deep, whispered words stirred my hair. “I wasn’t sure you’d understand the message I sent about meeting me here.”
    â€œMy friend told me where the club might be meeting, so I didn’t have to ask you.”
    â€œWas this friend Diana Hill? She’s sure resourceful.”
    He knew Diana’s last name? Micah had seen us together at the party last night, but I couldn’t remember if she’d told him more than her first name.
    My mind didn’t stay on logical questions like that, though. Not when my secret admirer was standing behind me, feeling like he was just as tall as Micah. I could sense the electricity from his chest as he slightly pressed against my shoulder. Why hadn’t I felt that kind of buzzing awareness at the party, when I’d been close to Micah?
    Was the red lighting or the dare-me music in this place getting to me, making me more aroused than I’d been last night? Or was it because we were alone now, without a phone screen between us?
    â€œDiana,” I said, hoping my voice was steady, “is more than resourceful. She seems to know everyone in Aidan Falls, even though I’m not sure how well they know her.”
    â€œShe has a hard time relating to people, that’s all.”
    How would Micah know that? Wasn’t he new in town, too?
    Impetuously, I started to face him, but he tightened his grip on my arms.
    â€œI don’t want you to turn around,” he whispered.
    â€œWhy?”
    â€œJust talk to me, Carley. That’s what I want right now, and I want you to want the same thing.”
    Was
this a game? Then why did he sound so intense, like looking at him would devalue this moment?
    God, he was killing me second by second. My curiosity was making my heart expand to twice its normal size, and the rest of my body . . . Well, it was doing its own kind of frustrated dance. Pitters and patters of lust were running over the lining of my belly, glimmers of need were spilling lower, between my legs. I was tight there—just as tight as I’d been earlier, when I’d tried to massage away the brutal need for him.
    His knuckles were close to my breasts, and the devil in me told me to move just an inch, to feel the brush of his fingers against me.
    â€œOkay?” he whispered. “Promise you won’t turn around?”
    I shivered at his request. “Okay.”
    â€œGood.”
    He leaned his forehead against the side of my head, and I closed my eyes, feeling his hair skim my cheek. The music pounded. I pounded. It was like he was fully taking me in, hardly believing I was here. Hell, I couldn’t believe it myself. But I’d wanted to finally meet the real world that was outside my door here in Aidan Falls.
    So what was he going to do next? What did I want him to do?
    â€œJesus.” He buried his face against me, and I could feel lips, his nose, the gentle force of his words. “I imagined you’d smell good, but I didn’t think it’d be like . . . God, the morning, when you wake up and everything’s pure.”
    I tried to paint a picture of Micah in my mind, standing here and revealing his soul to me. It wouldn’t come.
    â€œI want you more than anything, Carley,” he said softly, just below the music.
    My pulse sped up. There was something about him that bled into me, something I’d never felt with a guy before, and I couldn’t stop my body from spiking to a fever that clouded my head.
    â€œWhy this way?” I asked breathlessly, still needing answers. My brain
was
still working . . . slightly. “Why couldn’t you just walk up to me and