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“No, Rachel, we’re Bachata dancing It’s like salsa, only a whole lot slower, and a whole lot sexier You ready to have some fun?”

She looked at the people rubbing up against each other on the dance floor They all see and moved like professional dancers The club was for people in the know And that definitely didn’t describe her

She frowned at thehis way into her life “No,” she said “No, I’m not ready”

“Don’t worry” He took her hand and dragged her toward the dancers “I proe of the dance floor, he asked, “Do you want a drink first, or do you want to dance?”

“I don’t want to do anything here What I do want is to go hoht this would help us with our cover It’s a stupid idea”

“No, it’s a great idea By the end of the night, we’ll be so comfortable with each other it will be obvious to anyone who sees us Gotta stop that gossip, Rachel”

She wasn’t buying that ‘we’ rubbish He meant her She was the one who jerked away every time he moved to touch her It wasn’t deliberate She just wasn’t comfortable with public displays of affection, especially ones cos to be different between theue

No, that wasn’t true

She definitely noticed Harvard as a man But she didn’t want to Because every instinct told her that if she were to give theAnd Rachel couldn’t allow herself to be that vulnerable with anyone She’d been vulnerable once, and it had been devastating

“What will it be?” he said “Drink or dance?”

Oh, she wanted the drink But if she asked for one, it would only extend their time in the club How bad could this be, really? She’d survived forht?

“Dance,” she said deteret this over with”

“That’s the spirit,” he said as he nodded to a few faces he recognized and dragged her onto the floor

The h Harvard’s veins, the vibrations and rhyth him sway He loved to dance He loved the darkness of the clubs, the beat of the music, the mass of bodies on the dance floor It was his happy place, and he’d relaxed as soon as they’d walked through the door Rachel, on the other hand, looked like a rock at the edge of the ocean aves crashing over it

“This isn’t going to work” She raised her voice to be heard over the music “I studied ballet as a child, and I can waltz But I don’t kno to do this I don’t even knohat they’re doing” She pointed to a couple in thesex”