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shot meant for Chase into his
throat and shook his head. “The chemistry between us is
intense, bordering on combustible. I felt it the first time you
looked at me.”
    “ I
gotta go,” Chase said.
    “ Do
us both a favor and talk to Danni,” Alex said.
    “ Thanks
for dinner,” Chase said.
    “ Let's
do it again – soon,” Alex said.

Chapter
Five

    Chase
heard his cell phone vibrating on the bedside table. It rattled
across the wood; sounding like a woodpecker bouncing its beak against
a hollow steel pole. He cracked open one eyelid and tried to focus
on the time displayed on his alarm clock and couldn't. Merely to
keep the phone from vibrating again, he grabbed for it and answered
the call with a groggy hello.
    “ Chase?
Did I wake you?” Danni asked.
    He felt himself slump
against the bed pillows. “What time is it?” he asked,
trying to push the fog from his brain.
    “ Your
time, it'd be about ten,” she said.
    “ I
guess I was more tired than I thought,” Chase said.
    “ How
was dinner with Zander?”
    Chase rubbed at his face,
trying to sort through the details of the previous night. There were
parts of the evening that were blurry. Other parts were …
arousing and enlightening. He closed his eyes, feeling his cock
responding to the memory of Alex touching his arm. That simple
gesture had him hard as stone. It made him wonder what he'd have
done if Alex had touched something other than his arm.
    “ Chase?
Did you fall back asleep?” Danni asked.
    “ No,
babe. I'm here,” he said. “I had too much to drink last
night, so I'm feeling a bit sluggish this morning.”
    “ That
must mean dinner went well?”
    “ Yeah,
it was fine,” Chase said. “Alex grilled steaks out by
the pool.”
    “ What's
it like to hang out with a famous rock star like Zander?” Danni
asked.
    “ He
doesn't act like that,” Chase said. “There's no ego, no
sense of entitlement, he's just … Alex when we're talking. If
it weren't for the guitar music I hear at random times, I'd never
know he was a musician. And, he says Zander is his stage name. Off
stage he likes to be called Alex.”
    There it was again, Danni
thought. That weird inflection she heard in Chase's voice when he
talked about Zander.
    “ Is
everything all right, Chase?” Danni asked.
    “ Besides
the hang-over, I'm fine. Why?”
    Danni sighed loudly. “I
didn't want to have this conversation over the phone, Chase, but I
think we need to talk.”
    “ About
what?”
    “ Before
I left, we opened up a … subject, that made you
uncomfortable.”
    Chase
sat up in bed. “Danni, it's too early in the day for this.”
    “ I
have to ask you something and you need to be honest with me,”
she said. “Think you can handle that?”
    “ I
don't want to do this now,” he said. “Danni, please.
We'll talk when you get home.”
    “ That's
two months from now!” she said. “This can't wait that
long.”
    Chase swung his legs over
the side of the bed and looked out the window. Hazy sun was already
heating the Summer air. A warm gust of it filtered into the room
through the window screen.
    “ Chase,
I need to know. Are you attracted to Zander?”
    “ He's
fun to hang with, Danni, but that's it.”
    “ So,
you're not sexually attracted to him? Be honest, Chase.”
    “ I
am being honest!”
    “ I
don't believe you, Chase, and that's a problem,” Danni said.
“If this is going to work for us, then I need to know what's
going on inside your head. You can't hide from this anymore, so
answer my question and this time be completely honest. Are you
sexually attracted to him?”
    Chase
stood up and walked across the room to the window. His eyes caught
movement at the table beside the pool where he'd sat last night
eating dinner. Alex was sitting there alone with an acoustic guitar
resting on his lap. Long hair pushed behind his ears. Bare chest.
Bare legs. It wasn't much of a stretch of his imagination to know
Alex was probably completely bare – everywhere,