"I was looking for Jenna, but you'll both want to hear this." He told them about his conversation with Kiki and about her agreement to perform before the Mr. March contest.
"Are you shitting me?" Tyree said. "Because if you are, that's grounds for firing."
"Funny," Cam said, as Tyree leaned back in his chair, his hands behind his head.
"Damn, but I always did like your sister."
"No kidding," Jenna said. "I'm talking major girl-crush here. She's really okay with that? Because this is amazing."
"Totally okay. She loves this bar, and she likes small venues with just her guitar way more than the monster stadiums her managers set up for the band's tours."
"What's going on?" Mina asked, coming up behind him and putting her hand on the flat of his back.
For a second, Cam stiffened, certain she'd realize the intimacy of the touch and step back, but she kept her hand there, although she did ease forward so that she was standing beside him.
"Kiki's going to perform next Wednesday," Jenna said.
"No kidding?" She looked at Cam. "You arranged that?"
"I might have had something to do with it."
For the flicker of an instant, their eyes met, and he saw the tiniest smile play at her lips. Then she turned to Jenna. "I came to tell you that Brooke had a question. And to let you know I'm heading out. I've got a hot date tonight."
She didn't look at him. Just turned and left, her hand falling away from his back and leaving a Mina-shaped handprint of heat and promise.
Jenna looked after her, then turned her attention to him. For a second, he thought she was going to say something about him and Mina. But then her gaze dropped to the desktop, she grabbed a leather folio, and hurried past him into the hall saying, "I'll go see what Brooke needs."
Cam told Tyree that he was heading out, too, and if Tyree made the connection between him and Mina, he didn't show it. All he said was, "You earned yourself some serious karma, Cam my man. Thanks."
Cam nodded in acknowledgement, then walked back toward the main bar, intent on finding Mina.
He didn't get that far. Instead, Mina grabbed him by the elbow and pulled him into the dark corner near the shelves where the paper products were stored. "That was nice what you did," she said. "Asking your sister to perform, I mean."
"You think?"
She hooked her hands around his neck and lifted herself up on her toes. Her lips brushed his ear as she whispered. "Very take charge. Very sexy."
He stifled a moan, the unexpected sensation of her breath tickling his ear wreaking wonderful havoc with his insides. "Mina," he murmured, surprised and aroused. Anyone could come back here. Anyone could see. And the moment they did, the secret was over.
Which was fine by him, but the fact that Mina was being so reckless was such a turn-on that he was as hard as steel...and seriously considering abandoning all of his careful plans in order to yank her out into the alley and fuck her senseless right then.
Her hand slid down to cup his cock, and she made a soft noise of satisfaction that only made him harder. "I have high hopes for our date," she teased.
"I'll try hard to live up to your expectations," he retorted, stressing the word hard and making her laugh as her hand pressed against him even more firmly.
He groaned, then roughly took her wrists and pushed her back against the wall, her hands forced above her head as he pressed his body against hers. "You're playing a dangerous game, baby. Because I swear I'm on the verge of taking you right here, propriety and job security and our secret be damned."
"The ladies room is just across the hall. It has a lock."
Christ.
She squirmed but he held her hands firm, sorely tempted.
So ridiculously, incredibly, painfully tempted.
"No," he finally said, then almost changed his mind when he saw the disappointment in her eyes. He leaned forward, releasing one wrist so that he could slide his hand down. He caressed her breast, then cupped her sex over the spandex of her leggings as she ground down on his hand. "Anticipation," he murmured, then eased back, breaking the contact between them.
"Bastard," she said.