Chapter 74

The music changes when we get to the floor, from the intense house beat that has everyone bouncing around to a much slower, smooth jam that is pushing couples to start swaying towards one another, and I back up to get back off the floor; Apprehensive with the slow softer tune that is made to make-out too. Alexi doesn’t, though; he slides his arm around my waist snugly and pulls me in against him, so we end up torso to torso, and I only have his shoulders to plant my hands on. Either that, or I’ll look like a weird flailing idiot. Breathless and shocked by the sudden manoeuvre when faced with his body pressed to mine.

“What are you doing?” I yell over the loud music in his ear, unsure where I would put this little move in the no-touching rules. His groin is most definitely pressed into my pelvis, and my boobs are only getting breathing space because my arms are between us, bent to keep my palms on his shoulders. He’s all around me very evasively, and I feel suffocated with a sh