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The room was missing something else important. “Where’s Galen?” She
looked around as if staring into the shadows hard enough would reveal the
man in question.
“He’ll be back shortly.” He motioned her forward again and she closed
the distance between them, a magnet to his lodestone. The connection that
first appeared when their gazes met over the length of the club pulsed
between them like a live thing. If she concentrated, she could almost see it
connecting them even before they touched.
Meg slipped her hand into Theo’s big one and he maneuvered her to
stand between his thighs. He made an appreciative sound. “I don’t have to
tell you that this dress is a piece of art. You look so fucking sexy in it, I
couldn’t take my attention off you from the moment I saw you.” He ran his
hands up her legs, stopping just short of her dress and skating them back
down again to her ankles. “Runner.”
She nodded and swallowed hard. “Yeah.”
“Sit with me.” He waited for her to murmur a yes and then he pulled her
down to situate her in the corner of the couch, her legs sprawled over his
thighs. Theo unbuckled her strappy heels with careful fingers and tossed
them away from the couch.
It all felt so…strange.
She’d fully expected for the pair of them to fall on her the second they
walked through the door, had even braced for that eventuality. Instead
Galen was MIA and Theo was tracing abstract patterns up her legs as if he
had all the time in the world. She swallowed hard. “Theo—”
“Not yet.” He squeezed her thigh and started working down the other
leg. It wasn’t until stillness crept over his body that she realized what they’d
been waiting for.
Galen.
He stalked into the room from the hallway and tossed a handful of shiny
foil packets onto the coffee table. Condoms. Galen draped himself on the
long leg of the couch, well out of reach. He and Theo shared a charged look
that changed the atmosphere in the room in the space of one heartbeat to the
next. Meg barely had a chance to process that they were green light, full
speed ahead, when Theo shifted closer and kissed her.
He took her mouth as if he had every right to it—as if it had been his all
along and he was just now assuming ownership. Meg melted into the