Off-Kilter by Erin McRae & Racheline Maltese

Author:Erin McRae & Racheline Maltese
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sweet mm romance, scottish romance, gay kilt romance, may december romance, highland romance
Publisher: Avian30
Published: 2017-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

THEY WIND UP AT ONE of the dance stages where Megan and a cluster of other people are taking their places. Eric recognizes one of the men immediately.

Eric and Amara don’t need to say a word to each other. They both sit down cross-legged on the grassy slope that’s serving as seating for the audience. As much as Eric is excited to watch Rob, he’s suddenly aware that he has absolutely zero explanation as to why he’s here that doesn’t totally sell out Amara or make him sound like a complete creeper. Which is probably not the best way to make a good impression. Arguing for his great passion about a form of dance he’s objectively terrible at—even as a total newbie—is likely to make him seem like the liar he is.

But then, Eric spent an entire hour running into people in this guy’s class, until Rob took him by the hand and rescued him. Hopefully that means luck is on his side.

He stops worrying when the music starts up and Rob starts to dance. He’d been good in class—at least as far as Eric had been able to tell—but he’s clearly in his element here and loves having an audience. He shines. The music is lively, the mood of the crowd is bright, and aside from his growing apprehension at completely not having a plan, Eric’s having fun. He ends up grinning and tapping his feet along to the beat which is all well and good until Rob, looking out over the crowd as he weaves successfully through a hey, catches his eye.

His face registers no reaction—not surprise, or pleasure, or displeasure—at seeing Eric there. Clearly he has his dance-game-face on, and Eric’s not even sure Rob recognizes him. He could be making eye contact with everyone in the crowd. Except, Rob’s eyes keep coming back to him. Unlike Eric, he seems able to split his attention between what his feet are doing and what he’s staring at. As the group he’s performing with moves onto their second and third pieces, it becomes increasingly clear to Eric that yes, Rob really is looking right back at him.

He attempts to corroborate this with Amara because confirmation bias is real, but she’s busy staring at Megan.

“New target?” he murmurs to her.

“Mmmmmhmm.”

When the set is over, Eric applauds enthusiastically along with the rest of the crowd. He still doesn’t have a plan, which is rapidly becoming a more acute issue. Rob and the rest of his group move off the stage. As far as Eric knows Rob is done dancing for the day and may be preparing to leave the event. Although Eric could, theoretically, table this until another day, going to another dance class seems likely to test the good graces of his fellow students beyond what is prudent.

But no matter what he does, he has very little to lose. Eric gets to his feet and skirts around the edge of the audience to the area behind the stage. He means

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