The Heavenly Bites Novella Collection by Feldman Christine S

Author:Feldman, Christine S. [Feldman, Christine S.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi
Published: 2014-04-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“You’re doing great,” Nadia encouraged him sometime later, laughing and with any awkwardness forgotten while they danced. “Really, you’ve got the basic step, you’re keeping good time with the music—”

Benji wore a frown of concentration, but at her words, his lips momentarily twitched as if he wanted to smile but couldn’t coordinate both smiling and dancing at the same time. “Thanks.”

“But you should try not to look at your feet all the time.”

“Okay.” He raised his head obediently and then two seconds later sent a furtive glance downward.

She grinned at him, feeling a wave of affection. “Fun, huh?”

“You tell me,” he said. “You’re the one whose feet I’ve stepped on twenty times.”

“Happens to everybody when they first learn. Don’t worry about it. Hey, if you’re up for it, why don’t we try an underarm turn next?”

“Sure.”

“And maybe a little hip action.”

“Absolutely not.”

Nadia did a double take. “What? Why?”

“I’ll stick to the footwork and leave the hip action to you.”

“But it’s salsa,” she said reasonably. “You’re supposed to move your hips.”

“But you see, when you move your hips like that, you look good. If I try to do it, I’ll just look like my underwear’s creeping up on me.”

A startled laugh escaped her. “I beg your pardon?”

“Hey, you got me on the dance floor. I’d call that a major win for you. Save the rest for another day.”

The song came to an end and faded into another, slower number that was better suited to a rhumba than a salsa, or even to the ever-popular seventh-grade slow dance style that was more commonly seen on the dance floor.

After a moment’s hesitation, Benji drew Nadia in closer. She let him, although she couldn’t seem to look him in the eye and averted her gaze to look over his shoulder instead. It was still a casual dance frame, but she felt a subtle change as they settled into it that was less a shift in style and more a shift in mood.

Her free hand slid very naturally up higher on his arm until it came to rest behind his neck, almost of its own accord, and she felt his hand tighten on her waist in response. It felt good to have it there—maybe too good—and she felt an inexplicable urge to bolt.

What on earth was wrong with her?

“Nadia,” he started to say, his voice low and his mouth close to her ear, and her strange need to flee increased.

“You know what?” she interrupted a little too brightly as she pulled back from him, her heart thumping unusually fast. “I’m not really a slow dance kind of girl. Besides, my feet could use a break. Why don’t you ask Karina to dance instead? She’s been eyeing us this whole time, and I think she’s dying to get out on the dance floor with you.”

“Oh.” Confusion flickered through his eyes. She felt a pang of guilt for having put it there, but her rising anxiety—peculiar as it was—overruled it.

“It’s a share-the-wealth kind of thing,” she

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