The boys have been far older than the attractive ladies they danced with.

Yakim wound his arms round my waist, drawing my consideration away from everybody else.

My arms went round his neck and inside seconds, we have been shifting to the tune being performed.

I couldn’t consider I used to be dancing with him. It was a surreal second, one thing proper out of my fantasies.

“What are you enthusiastic about?” Yakim demanded in a decent voice.

“I needed to bounce with you for the longest time,” I mentioned. “That is what I needed the evening you kissed me for the primary time. If Callum hadn’t interfered, we’d have danced all evening.”

“Why can’t you recover from that evening?”

“Didyouever recover from that day?”

He glared at me however continued to bounce with me. Grabbing my arm, he immediately twirled me away after which wrenched me again in opposition to his chest.

“You’re mine,” he hissed in my ear. “It doesn’t matter what others say. Irrespective of whatyousay, Lucia. You’re mine.”

The possessiveness in his voice despatched a thrill of hazard via me, lighting a hearth deep in my core. A moan left my lips and immediately, I needed him proper there.

“Cease doing this to me,” I groaned, letting my head drop on his chest.

The scars on his face bunched collectively to at least one facet in a well-recognized expression. He was smiling smugly.

We danced for the following 4 songs till my ft couldn’t take it any longer.

“I want a break,” I groaned regardless of having the power to bounce extra.

Yakim stopped and led me to a nook. He helped me sit down on a sofa and introduced me a glass of champagne.

“Can I take away my sneakers?” I requested, feeling the strap digging into my pores and skin.

“Something, babe,” he mentioned in a deep voice. “It’s your own home now too. You possibly can stroll bare should you please. Simply bear in mind that I’ll stab each male’s eye that dares to have a look at you.”

A chuckle escaped me. “This shall be my house whenever you cease locking me in my room. Will you ever cease doing that? We each know I can’t escape this place alone.”

“I’ll give it some thought.”

I stared at him. “You’ll let me be free?”

He gave a nod.

I jumped off the sofa and wrapped my arms round his neck.

A chuckle escaped him. “You’re choking me, love.”

Loosening my maintain, I appeared again at him. “Thanks!” I used to be about to kiss him when a well-recognized determine got here into my imaginative and prescient. Breaking away from him, I greeted Leon.

“You’re wanted again within the entrance corridor,” mentioned Leon. Gesturing towards me, he added, “It’s my flip to take care of her now.”

Yakim patted him on the shoulder and turned towards me.

“We’ll decide up the place we left,” I mentioned, grinning.

He smiled, making my coronary heart throb like loopy.

Leon moved nearer to me when Yakim walked away.

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