Page 72 of Another Story

“Dance for me.”

She quirks a brow and steps back. “Dance for you?” she asks, her fingertip pressed against my chest. One eyebrow lifts, and I wonder if I’ll ever push her too hard.

“Without the dress,” I instruct.

But today is not that day.

She sashays inside, and I watch her slip one strap off her shoulder, and then the second, before shimmying out of the dress just as I lose sight of her.

She doesn’t know.

One day I’ll dare her to marry me.