“Are you okay, Elle?” Cage asked as I came to a sudden stop two feet away.
I nodded, my throat working past the moan in my throat. Surreptitiously, I searched the room for Sinclair but he was nowhere to be found. How was he doing this?
“Did Margot put the fear of God into you?” Cage asked, hiding his smile behind his glass of whiskey. “She can be a fearsome woman.”
“Evidently,” I said dryly. “Thanks for the warning before I wandered off with her.”
He laughed. “I had a feeling you knew what you were doing.”
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p; I smiled slightly and subtly rubbed my legs together, trying to ease the sensations at my core. The conservative side of me, the one that had always dominated, urged me to go to the bathroom and remove the toy while the other side, the one embraced by my more passionate twin siblings, delighted in the sensation of being teased unbeknownst to the crowd of people milling around the multi-million dollar mansion. It was the cherry on top of an utterly decadent night. The only thing that would have made it complete was Sinclair.
As if summoned by my desire, a warm hand slid over my bare shoulder and down my back possessively. “Have you been thinking about me?” he whispered darkly in my ear as the vibrator ceased its motions.
Cage seemed taken aback by his friend’s grin but he recovered quickly with a wink at me. “It’s a good thing you came when you did, Sin, I was just thinking about asking your date here to leave with me.”
I rolled my eyes but Sinclair remained unmoved, his voice cool. “I should have known you would find her tonight.”
“In that dress? She’s hard to miss.”
I reached out to Kat who had taken a step away from us and lightly tugged her closer to me. “Katarina has been the most wonderful guide.”
“Of course she has.” Cage squeezed her shoulder like a brother would. “Our Kat’s a real gem.”
She blushed but Cage was too oblivious to notice how she reacted to him and when I looked up at Sinclair to see if he noticed his eyes were on mine, twinkling with mirth.
My mouth fell open when the vibrator started again, this time on a higher intensity. I wobbled slightly and Sinclair smoothly tucked me under his arm.
“I think Elle has had too much to drink.” I frowned at him as he spoke – I had only finished two glasses of wine – but he looked down at me with unmasked desire and I bit my lip. “I should be getting her home.”
“How did the meeting go?” Cage asked as he leaned forward to kiss me on the cheek in farewell.
“As can be expected. Santiago assures me the deal will go forward as planned.”
I tuned them out in order to say goodbye to Kat but when I tried to get out from under Sinclair’s arm, he tightened his hold. He did stop the vibrator though and I was grateful when the thick fog of desire cleared slightly from my thoughts.
I shrugged at Kat helplessly and she giggled.
“I’ve never seen him like this,” she whispered in her lovely accent. “He is very interested in you, no?”
I shook my head. “We just met.”
She waved my statement out of the air. “This is no problem. I just met you and already I know that we are friends.”
I beamed at her. Yes, I had felt that instant connection as well and I was sorry to be saying goodbye to her already.
“If you stay with him, I mean after this vacation, maybe I will see you again,” she said, ignoring my look of doubt.
“Why don’t you give me your email?” I suggested instead of hinging my hopes on something that would very likely never happen.
Kat grinned and we exchanged information. Sinclair finished his conversation with Cage and patiently waited for me to hug her goodbye before tugging us away. Immediately, people converged on us to talk to Sinclair as we made our way from room to room and into the main reception hall. When a particularly adamant older man was completely ignored by the man walking swiftly beside me, I frowned.
“Shouldn’t you stay and talk to these people?”
He continued his brisk pace without looking at me. “No.”
“Because you don’t have time to be nice?”