Page 70 of Ethan's Sky

“Hell yeah, baby. Show ‘em what you got girl!” Sadie shouts. We’re having a blast. The song switches and we change things up. By the third song, we’re all vibing off each other and I feel a hundred pounds lighter.

This is what I needed.

Sadie and Jayde start dancing together.

“Jayde lean your torso back. Keep swaying together. Now Sadie, drag your fingers lightly from under Jayde’s chin to navel, then repeat the opposite from your navel to neck, then through your hair like this. Taking Sadie’s hands, I place her in front of me and show her exactly what I mean. Jayde hollers, “Damn that’s hot!” Everything comes to an abrupt halt when we hear several loud male voices shouting from across the room.

“What the fuck?”

“Oh, Hell no!”

“The fuck is this?”

And a loud as hell whistle, I know to be Cash’s smart ass.

Mack, Jake, Hawk, and Ethan are all storming the stage. Sadie rolls her eyes. Jayde becomes shy all the sudden. And I’m confused as fuck.

The music stops, and before I can make sense of it all, my arm’s being pulled. I’m off the stage and being dragged by Ethan out of the clubhouse doors into the yard. He slams me against the wall. Caging me in.

My breath stutters out of me with the impact of the wall, but I don’t say anything. I don’t’ knowwhat I would sayif I could form words. He looks enraged.

But why? What the hell is his problem?

He steps back, running his hands through his hair, pacing in front of me.

“What the hell was that?” He growls, finally stopping in front of me.

I still don’t know what to say, so I don’t. I stare at him like the conundrum he is.

“Answer my Sky? What the fuck were you thinking dancing on that stage like that?In that?”He gestures to my sports bra and shorts. I don’t know what comes over me, but I laugh. Not a chuckle, a full-blown belly laugh. He’s md at my sports bra and shorts when I wearso much lesson the stage at the Pearl. The irony is too much.

“You know that stage is used for, Sky? That’s where Ghost’s strippers perform for the club. Where they fuck each other and brothers for all our entertainment. Is that what you want to do? You come all the way here and decide you’re going to start stripping and acting like a whore? Huh?

Something inside my chest pulls tight like a rubber band and then in a split second…it snaps.

“So, what if I did? Huh? What’s it to you anyway? You fucking hypocrite! I know you watch women wearing far less than this doing far more seductive things than what we were doing, so it’s not that you don’t like it. But when the three of us get up there, in an empty room, dancing and having fun, for ourselves, you all lose your goddamn minds!”

“How do you even know how to dance like that, Sky? This isn’t you! You don’t do shit to get attention, so explain to me how the bookworm became a seduction expert. Enlighten me!” He’s shouting at me. We’re nearly nose to nose now. My hearts thumping, my breathing is coming in pants, but so are his.

I bypass the last part because fuck him. He doesn’t need to know anything about me.

“For your information I was teaching your club whore how to dance properly. Trust me, Candi needs more than one lesson. You can thank me later.” The last five words are dripping with sarcasm.

Asshole.

“You were…I can…Are you….ugggghhh” He closes the gap and slams his lips on mine. I don’t kiss him back. I’m stunned. When I don’t respond, Ethan grabs my hair, pulling slightly, causing me to gasp. He swipes his tongue into my mouth, ravishing the hell out of it.

He’s kissing me. Skyler! Not Scarlet.

I give in, my body melting into his, our tongues dueling for control. He groans, pulling my hair a little harder, inflicting just the right amount of pain. I reach up, wrapping my hands around his nape, dragging my nails across the back of his neck. Again, he growls, but he doesn’t stop kissing the hell out of me.

I lift one leg up wrapping it around his waist attempting to pull him closer. I need him closer. I need friction.Something.My core is on fire and dripping wet with need. But almost as fast as it started, the kiss ends.

Ethan pulls off me forcing my leg to drop to the ground. He’s both, shoving me to the wall while jumping back enough to make space between us. I’m shocked and Ethan stands staring straight through me.

“Ethan?” I whisper his name. His eyes narrow. I don’t know what he’s thinking, but the storm I see staring back at me should be enough to scare me away, but I can’t get my feet to move from this spot.

“Fuck. FUCK!” he shouts. “God damnit! This wasn’t...I wasn’t… I don’t want this! You! I don’t want you! I hate you! This shit…” he waves between us, “it can’t happen. It’s not going to happen again. You hear me? I don’twant you.What I want is you gone from Oak Ridge and out of my fucking life!”

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