Page 252 of By His Play

A breath rushes out of me, and I just about manage to catch the sob that wants to follow it.

His grip on my body tightens before he releases me, spinning me out and then drawing me back in.

I know Grams taught him to dance before. But she didn’t teach him this.

I shake my head in disbelief as our hips come together again.

“H-How…How are you doing this?”

He ducks lower so his forehead presses against mine. “I told you, Effie. I’d do anything for you.”

Tears burn my eyes.

“Y-you’re really here?” I ask, still unable to fully process what is happening.

“Don’t mind me crashing your date, do you?”

A laugh tumbles from my lips.

“It’s never been a date, Kieran. Brax and I?—”

“I know,” he assures me. “I know everything.”

“Including these dance moves, apparently.”

His smirk grows, and damn it if it doesn’t make him even hotter.

“Fantastic. You two are natural together,” Maria praises.

“Yeah,” Kieran muses without breaking eye contact with me. “We are.”

Oh my god.

The song comes to an end and Maria immediately instructs us to go straight into our new tango.

My lips twitch with a smile. Learning a waltz is very different from a tango.

“What the hell?” I laugh when Kieran releases me and takes two steps back, ready to start.

Completely dumbfounded, I stand there as the beat drops and he stalks back toward me, spins me around, and presses his front to my back.

Heat from his huge, hard body surges through mine, lighting me up from the inside out.

Lifting my arm in the air, I shudder as he drags his palm down my skin, making goosebumps erupt across my body.

“How have you done this?” I breathe as his knuckles skim over the side of my breast, something Brax never did.My nipples pucker and pressure begins to build in my lower stomach.

The tango might be erotic and seductive, but Brax was always a total gentleman.

Kieran, however…

Spinning in his arms, I gaze up at him as I wrap my leg around his, rubbing myself against him.

His nostrils flare and he sucks in a sharp breath.

He’s hard.

Desire shoots through me, leaving heat pooling between my thighs.

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