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“What are you two whispering about over there?” Zoe teased.
“Nothing,” I blurted, making it obvious we very certainly were talking about something.
“Sure,” she said as our dinners were taken away.
Thankfully, Jax didn’t take away his hand. As dessert was served, a lemon cake we agreed to share as a table, his finger ran circles on my thigh. But he didn’t move his hand otherwise even though I wanted to grab it and push it upward. To come apart under the expert guidance of his fingers.
To come apart with him inside me.
“You’re a dessert girl, aren’t you?” Jax asked as I pushed my fork into the cake in the center of the table.
“You know it. No apologies for that.”
“Now why would you apologize for such a thing?”
Charlee looked at me as if to say, “Why indeed?” Mostly because my last dickhead boyfriend, who was also a fitness nut, thought sugar was the actual devil.
“Excuse me a sec,” Lucas said, getting up, presumably to use the men’s room.
Jax took the distraction to lean into me once again. “Thankfully I remembered how much you loved desserts and have something waiting for you back at my place.”
My head whipped toward him. “Really? What?”
“For me to know and you to find out.”
By the glint in his eyes, I had an inclination of what he was talking about.
“Something you like too?” I guessed.
“Mmhmm.”
Immediately a vision of me sprawled on his bed, Jax licking some sort of cream off my nipples, made me hope my imagination wasn’t running too far off course.
“Looks like the party’s breaking up a bit,” Nate said, glancing around the room. Sure enough, at least one table was getting up to leave. Was it too soon for us to go?
“Some of us are heading to the cafe next to the Duomo for nightcaps,” Charlee said. “But I have a feeling you guys are going to skip it?”
Astute of her.
I tried not to smile too broadly as I looked at Jax. “Up to you.”
He thought about it, or at least pretended to, before answering. “I did grab a bottle of wine in case you want to have a nightcap at my place. Or we can go with your friends. Up to you.”
Oh, the devil, making me decide. Making me admit I wanted to all but run out of this place. Before I could answer, his hand moved upward. Finally. I wasn’t sure if the others caught the movement, but I certainly could feel it.
He was teasing me. Taunting me. And if it were anyone but Jax, I’d probably laugh it off and go immediately back to his place. But thiswasJax we were talking about, and pitting myself against his iron will came second nature.
As his fingers continued tormenting me, I said brightly, “You know what? Let’s go to the cafe. That sounds like fun.”
Jax let out a low groan.
Charlee and Zoe both laughed.
And I beamed, knowing, at least for once, I’d won this round of wits against a man who wasn’t very accustomed to losing. Very likely, I’d pay the price. But that was a problem for later.
TWENTY-ONE
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