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table.
    â€œEnjoy everything in this room, Jadyn,” he said. “We had you in mind when we stocked it.”
    Carley spoke up. “You ordered all this for her?”
    Simmons offered that polite smile. “Certainly. Everyone deserves a night out.”
    Carley was already eyeing the champagne buckets, and Bret was already eyeing Carley again. I got the feeling that I should grab some grub and vacate before kissing ensued.
    Then the door eased open, letting in blasts of acid country music.
    Letting in a sight that made me thaw and nearly lose all shape.
    Noah Reeves. And he exchanged a long look with Simmons, who didn’t say or do anything but nod. Meanwhile, my body started doing the
thump-de-dump
dance of need again.
    Tag team
, I thought, feeling stranger than ever.
    Then Noah jerked his chin at Bret in greeting and acknowledged Carley with a bow of his head.
    My friend smiled before she stopped herself. Then she made doe eyes at Bret.
Oh, babe, I’m not looking at anyone but you
.
    Then it was my turn to receive the full force of Noah’s attention, but I’d already built myself up for it. When he looked at me, I only lifted an eyebrow.
    â€œEveryone have what they need?” he asked in that low, smooth tone that reminded me of cream over fine chocolate; decadent, something to stay away from.
    If a girl could.
    â€œYou didn’t have to go to these lengths,” I said. “Thank you for it, but an explanation from Simmons would’ve been enough. It wasn’t as if you turned my life upside down.”
    Noah stepped all the way into the room, and it was as if that was Simmons’s cue to vacate. He left the door gaped behind him, the music hammering its way in.
    It was becoming
very
hot in here, and I’d gotten what I’d come for, so maybe this would be a good time for me to leave, too. The Hellfire Club wasn’t as titillating as I’d thought it would be, anyway. Also, with Noah looking at me the way he was, I was sure that I was more unsettled now than ever.
    But why? A billionaire wouldn’t want any of
this
, so I had to be crazy to think he was into me when there were hundreds of barely dressed women writhing around in the main room. And it wasn’t as if I were up for any more games, either. I’d had enough of those with Micah Wyatt, who’d liked to play with women like catnip. It hadn’t been fun to end up as his toy.
    Surely that’s what these boys had been doing—playing with me. And I wasn’t about to get into that kind of trouble again. I was in full control of myself now, not any guy.
    â€œReady?” I said to Carley and Bret.
    He was inspecting what looked to be a small stuffed mushroom, and she was already drinking from a champagne flute. She had another glass in hand as she walked over to me.
    â€œCan’t we stay?” she asked. “This is so way better than the first Hellfire Club.”
    I would explain everything to her later, but I took the glass, set it down on a nearby table, then not-so gently guided her toward the door, hoping Bret would take the hint to follow. Then I walked past Noah.
    Maybe I didn’t want to stay as the guest of a guy who was older and more experienced and probably much better at playing girls than I was at playing boys. But I wasn’t an ingrate, either. “Thank you for the tip yesterday. And for any trouble you went through setting up this spread.”
    â€œYou’re not staying?” he said in such a way that my belly flipped.
    Did he want me to hang around that badly? Right.
    But those eyes were a compelling light green color that had me swimming. They were enough to make me pause, make a secret part of me ache, just as I’d ached for Rex and Micah for a brief time.
    Aches never turned out well.
    â€œWe were just going to stop by to see the sights,” I said, nodding at him one last time before I tugged Carley along.
    â€œThanks for the tip at