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with the righteous
indignation of a slightly inebriated mind.
    But before the thoughts could fully form in her mind, a
strong arm wrapped around her waist, pulling her back into a hard body. The
beat had changed into a sultry rhythm and his hips rolled into hers with
perfect timing. She knew without having to turn around that it was Tyler behind
her. Even without the satisfied smile that sprang to Chloe’s face when he
appeared she would have known.
    It was in the way he smelled, clean and crisp like a fresh
fall breeze, the way he moved with confidence and purpose. His sheer presence
alone was already familiar and burned into her senses. And to her surprise,
they fit together flawlessly as they rocked back and forth.
    She should have known he’d be a good dancer. The man seemed
to know exactly what he was doing with his body at all times. The thought made
her shiver.
    He spun her around to face him, pulling her close as his
knee slid between hers. Their fingers linked together and a slow sensual smile
tugged at his lips when he trapped her hands behind her at the small of her back.
    “You feeling loose enough yet?”
    Words failed her. All she could do was stare at his mouth
and nod. He laughed, the sound tingling down her already sensitized nerve
endings.
    “Good.” He twirled her out then back into him, startling her
into a giggle.
    All too quickly, the song ended and he released her. Chloe
linked her hand with Mina’s as Tyler murmured that he would be back and went to
mingle with various people in the crowd. She tracked his movements through the
bar throughout the night. Watched as he laughed and accepted birthday wishes
and marveled that he always came back to her.
    Alternating between doing more shots with Tyler and going
back out onto the dance floor, her night flew by and she couldn’t remember a
single other time when she’d had so much fun. Or when she’d drunk so much.
    By the end of the night she was definitely feeling the
effects of the alcohol. Tyler, seasoned drinker that he was, was handling his
liquor much better. Even though he’d cut them both off at the same point during
the night, by the time they left he was sober while she was still dangerously
tipsy.
    But she was pleased to discover she was a happy drunk.
Happier still to be leaving with him, even if she could barely keep her eyes
open and he was only going to drop her off at her apartment. She was just so
undoubtedly with him that night and she couldn’t have been more proud or
elated.
    They climbed into his car and the soft rumble of the engine
as he fired it up purred through her body, relaxing her. “Thank you for
tonight,” she said as she rested her head back against the soft leather of the
seat, eyes drifting closed. “Daisy never let me do this kind of thing.” She
yawned. “Said I was too backward to enjoy myself.”
    A rude snort sounded from the driver’s seat and Mina titled
her head toward him and forced her eyes open into slits. “No offense, but this
Daisy chick sounds like a twat.”
    Her brow furrowed in a frown as she stared out the window at
the streetlights as they zipped by. “No, Daisy’s perfect. Everyone thinks so,
even my parents.” She could feel the words slowly pouring out of her mouth but
didn’t have the energy or the gumption to stop them. “It was probably good I
never went out with her anyway. I was invisible when she was around. I would
have gotten wasted with no one to take care of me because no one would have
noticed. She knew it and I knew it so she said I was better off staying home.” She
knew she was rambling but at the moment she didn’t really care.
    “Yeah like I said, she’s a twat if she was filling your head
with bullshit like that.”
    Turning her head to look at his darkly handsome profile, she
grinned. “But you can see me, can’t you?” Her eyelids were getting too heavy to
lift and they slowly fluttered downward once more.
    Before they closed the whole way, she saw the