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Bella rotated right on schedule, facing ain after four beats If I wasn’t mistaken, she looked rather pleased with herself

"See? You can stop acting like this is torture I’ve kept you away from your family for at least threenot to notice how good it felt to hold her there

"Good point," she murmured

The dance floor was o And I could tell when Bella relaxed, because she smiled at me the next tiht with her family Because I’d finally ues coh the crowd applauded more enthusiastically forI heard the opening strains of Louis Ar’s "A Kiss to Build a Drea back "I danced Can I have ain, putting my hand on the small of her back "One more Because it just doesn’t make sense for your fake boyfriend to skip the slow dance"

"This is your game, not mine" But Bella put her hand on my shoulder anyway, and let me lead her slowly around the floor

I was born in the wrong decade, I swear it Because dancing to live ood tiently spin her

When she came back around to face me, she had a startled look on her face

"It just ood fake boyfriend would use that word"

"I get that," she said, putting her head on my shoulder "It’s just that the first ti your dick"

"What?" I sputtered

Her mouth was just beside s you whispered to me in Spanish ere naked That was hot as fuck"

Annnd noas hard Do not think about that night, I ordered myself But hed, her hand on iven up men"

All the aardness of the hed "Maybe you should have brought a fake girlfriend as your date That would shake up the faled, and her hair tickledthat"

Does it ree with ht Maybe too much I held her a little closer as we danced The band had no vocalist, but I could hear Louis Ar’s voice in my head Give ," I confessed

"Wait, really?" Bella stood up taller so she could look ets a single kiss, and he basically says that it’s enough -- he’s just going to fantasize about it for the rest of his life I mean… what a rip"

I bit back a s," she countered "Here, I’ll show you" Before I kneas happening, Bella came closer Her silky thumb stroked once across my cheekbone Then she stood up on her toes and kissed ainst h you couldn’t have paid me to resist her Sheer instinct

Bella’s mouth melted onto mine, and a needy little sound issued from the back of her throat Heaven I deepened the kiss, and our tongues touched once She tasted of red wine and desire An electric pulse traveled the length of ers in her hair…

The sound of applause broughthad ended, and the band segued into soasp For a second we just stared at each other "See?" she said eventually

But I didn’t have the faintest recollection of the point she’d been trying to make "What?"

Alass calling ot a hold of myself as alked toward the table There was nobody on the planet like Bella And noSle kiss on the temple as alked "Thanks for the dance"