Page 66 of Last Fall

“That’s the thing...I do feel safe with you.” She took a shaky breath as she searched my eyes. “It’s a very strange feeling and I don’t know what to dowithit.”

“You don’t have to do anything with it.” Yes, I wanted her to let go and be with me already. And yes, I wanted to run back to her car and take her home with me. And hell yes, I wanted to spend the night with her. But all those things were going to happen at some point. I knew that now. “You don’t have to doanything,Zoe.”

The hair on the back of my neck rose up and I got the strangest feeling someone was staringatme.

Iignoredit.

“It doesn’t feel that way,” she whispered, glancing to herright.

Was she getting the same weird signals? I followed her gaze but didn’t see anyone obvious. Atfirst.

Zoe froze. “That blonde is watching us,” shewhispered.

That’s when I saw her. The woman who stopped me. “What washername?”

“Meg.”

Yep. Her. From all the way across the room. She was sitting at a table like the one we’d just been at. And all she was doing was staringatus.

It was reallycreepy.

“Maybe that’s where the urgency is coming from,” Zoe chuckled, smiling back up at me. I really liked her arms around my neck like this. “I have to quick figure out how I feel about you so we can escape astalker.”

Fuck. Hopefully Meg was just a drunk fan and not a stalker. “You’re getting a strong vibe from her, aren’t you?” People didn’t pull out the word stalker for no reason. And that put my guard up even higher than italreadywas.

“I’m tired, turned on, confused, and now watched. I don’t know what I’m feelinganymore.”

My brain latched right onto the one word I liked hearing most and threw therestaway.

Zoe wasturnedon.

And that made me a very happy man. “Oh yeah? Is it just dancing that excites you, or was itmaybeme?”

She rolled her eyes. “As if me drooling all over you tonight wasn’t enough, you have a fan who can’t take her eyesoffyou.”

Drooling?I just...wow. I kissed her, grabbing the loops on her jeans to tug her closer. Soft. Warm. She kissed me back with the best littlewhimper.

“Take me home, Erik,” she murmured between kisses. “Take mehome,now.”

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