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How incredible it felt to be wrapped in Taylen’s arainst him, his body wrapped around mine, hard and broad, where I’o past that, though—past his war

“Holy shit!” Taylen suddenly leaps up froht through the center of the ticket I’ve been staring at and not working on

“What?” My breath catches when I see how elated he is His eyes are huge, his grin is bigger, and he starts flapping the ticket around like a startled chicken “How much did you win?”

Out of all the ti more than five or ten dollars I think this whole table worth of tickets is probably not even going to be close to breaking even

He waves the ticket harder, then does a ridiculous dance It starts with his hips, which he pumps back and forth, then he lifts his ar his bottoht to a butt so perfectly formed that if I were to throw ht off I’ I tear hin the happy dance I crossto cut her off, but I guess that’s not hoorks SheTaylen

“Oh yeah,” he sings, terribly off-key “Oh yeah, baby! The winning ticket Right here Oh yeah…”

“How hter bubbles upit

Taylen dances harder The table where I’ is across the way froely open on the main floor here The second floor is quite open, too, since the stairwell and landing overlook this part Jeffers lifts his head and watches the happy dance, both confused and ready to spring into action just in case Tay is actually practicing some cursed dance Ha Not that it would make any difference I’m pretty sure I’m cursed already

“How ain Jeffers waits, his ears back I’rand winner or rand

“Fifty bucks! It’s the biggest one we’ve had in a longgggg time”

My nostrils flare as I snort “Oh my lord You are a dorkus Sit down That’s hardly worth celebrating”

“Yeah right!” Tay does this thing where he mimics me every now and then Other people too, but he’s knownthat he has h tones “Sit down That’s hardly worth celebrating” He rolls his eyes at me “Sit down? How can I sit down? You need to stand up!”

He drops the ticket on the table, grasps my chair, and spins s just about fly off The chair e and isn’t going to put up with this nonsense, but then Taylen plucks me out of it He takes my hands and dancesover the hardwood floors

“Dance with ood cheer and carefree happiness

This is rumpy, moody, and cursed Taylen isn’t his usual MO If Tay isn’t cracking jokes, acting wild, laughing, and the life of every freaking party, there’s so, especially since I haven’t solved any of my problems In fact, I think I’ve added a whole heap to the ones I was already dealing with, but ,in ti me around

We took dance lessons as kids I always hated it when my parents put me in them, and I used to complain so much that Taylen wanted to see what all the fuss was about, so he got his ether after that, everything froo, to the waltz They were a lot otten theood use now, and I find ood leader He was always so effortless at it while I was the cluraceful one It became so bad that my teachers would only pair me with Taylen because he was the only one whose feet I didn’t le and maul the entire class