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“Class starts in ten minutes”

“No, I’m not here—”

“Second floor, second door on the right”

I wasn’t sure what aboutthen cli the stairs two at a time People milled around in the hallway as music filtered out of the door and filled the hallith ain the small , I spotted her

In front of the hts and a sheer skirt that floated around her like ic as she danced She ran fro up to her full height and lifting her other leg up and over her head almost in a midair split Time stood still as she moved in time to the beat

Her partner followed her through the uy’s ars wrapped around his waist His hands crisscrossed her back

My jaw clenched at the way he looked at her It wasn’t a look of professional appreciation Their bodies pressed together, and they swayed to the music, each movement more frantic but fluid as the music built The final explosion of sound ended with her wrapped around the guy, his hands cradling her ass I sla up , entwined, completely focused on the other

They stopped, and Liv’s face broke out in a cloud-clearing suy who’d had his hands all over her

More people walked up the stairs behind h the second door I turned back to the cutoutin the door, and Liv’s face popped up, her downturned lips cooling soh my body

She tugged the door open with a duffel bag over her shoulder “I said an hour, right?”

I nodded

She pulled out her phone and checked the e “You’re here early”

“Your name was on the class schedule on the website”

She chewed on her thuet a coffee or so to her skin like a war rooms

“Can I stay and watch?”