Each time she brushed against him he grew less restrained. The less restrained he grew, the more often she brushed against him. He took the first purposeful slide of her hips against his as an accident. Loud music drowned out thought in the small club. Everyone pressed together in a brick box with speakers, a soundboard and nowhere for the heat from the lights and from their bodies to go. She danced through the crowd with her arms in air as though everyone else were there simply for her to swim through.
He’d lost count of how many times she slid her ass across the front of his jeans when she passed him. Once, he ventured the back of his hand against the small of her back. The next he put the palm of his hand across her hip. She lingered, his hand against her body and the heart in his throat throbbed faster. He curled his fingers around her, gripping her waist softly. So softly. The jolt of sudden intimacy shot through him out of this subtle, slight caress. Then the subdued panic of overstepping his bounds and having misinterpreted everything. She turned her head slowly and as she moved to look at him the sense of gamble almost overtook him. Her smile had gravity though, and he felt himself pulled toward her as she danced away again. The next time she danced toward him he slid both his palms against her ass. She leaned back into him and his hard on stiffened.