Page 44 of Never Sleep with the Enemy

“Let us mingle with our minions!” Tesla says, her lightning blue brow dripping with sweat. “Coming, Logan?”

Logan nods. “I’ll be there.”

The girls hop off together, leaning on each other for support as they plow into the bar.

While they stumble away, I feel Logan’s eyes on me before I even turn to look at him. When I do, they flick up as if they weren’t just checking out my rear end.

“Hi,” I say.

“Hi,” he replies.

“What the fuck was that?”

Logan chuckles. “That, kitty, was fun.”

“You could have warned me.”

“Warn you?”

“Yes.”

“How? I didn’t even know you’d be here, and I was kinda busy being up on stage and all that.”

“You ambushed me, Logan.”

He pauses, shifting slightly on his heels. “I apologize. That wasn’t my intention.”

“What was your intention?” I ask, curious.

“Well,fun.Always.” He smiles, tempting me to smile too, but I hold my stern expression. “Let me make it up to you. I’ll buy you a soda pop.”

I shake my head, knowing I shouldn’t be here any longer than I already have. “No, I really should go home.”

“I’ll drive you.”

“It’s not far. I’ll walk.”

“Then, I’ll walk you.”

“You don’t have to do that.”

“I want to.” His head tilts, making the light sweat on his brow shimmer beneath the lights. “And I’m not about to let a young woman walk home alone in Las Vegas in the dead of night.”

I snort. “It’s, like... ten-thirty, Logan.”

“Katrina.”He says my name so softly, so intensely, that my knees quiver beneath me. “I’m going to walk you home now.”

I swallow hard, stalling as I search for another excuse. “You have a bar full of fans waiting to meet you,” I say, pointing toward the curtain.

“They’ll wait.” He shrugs. “It’s, like...ten-thirty.”

I chuckle, unable to stop it, unable to budge an inch beneath his piercing blue eyes. “Fine,” I say. “We’ll slip out the back.”

“First...” Logan prompts, making me pause mid-stride. “I need you to tell me something.”

I stand still, waiting, wondering what he’ll ask. What am I doing here? Why did I come? Why did I agree to go up on stage?

Because I don’t have an answer to any of those.

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