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parked the car. Just as she cut the engine and retrieved the key from the ignition, Dominic reached over and pulled her into his lap. She could feel the evidence of his arousal pressed against her as she straddled him.
    He took her face in his hands, forcing her to look directly at him. “I’m yours. Only yours. And this,” he said, grinding himself against her, “belongs to only you. The others meant nothing to me. No one has ever made me feel the way you do. Te amo, Querida... I love you. Do you understand me? Only you.”
    The fervor of his words melted her jealousy like wax from a burning candle, and she nodded as much as his hands on her face would allow. He leaned up to give her a hungry kiss. Lips, teeth, and tongues meshed together—stroking, searching, finding. His taste was icy cool, mixed with the bitter aftertaste of the liquor he consumed. She inhaled his scent, mint and Abercrombie Fierce cologne. It was all she needed to find her way through the foggy green haze of her insecurities and back home to him.
    An impatient knock on the window startled them, and they broke their kiss, annoyed by the unwanted intrusion.
    “What!?” Dominic snapped, and Kerrigan giggled at his overanxious frustration.
    “Don’t you snap at me, Dominatrix!” Gabe answered in a warning tone. “I will smash through this damn window and go Wolverine on your ass, and you know this! Now, are y’all just going to stay down here making out all night, or are you coming?”
    “Don’t the two go hand in hand?” Kerrigan smiled, proud of her witty retort. Then she rotated her hips above Dominic and leaned down to kiss him again.
    “Ain’t this a bitch?” Gabe mumbled to the rest of their friends. “These two have done lost their damn minds and are going to make me have to snap up in here.”
    Kerrigan groaned and sat up. “We’re coming.” She opened the door and maneuvered out of Dominic’s lap so he could get out as well.
    She glared at Gabe. “I really hate you sometimes.”
    Gabe threw his arm around her shoulders, ignoring the one Dominic had around her waist, and they started toward the side of the building to the stairs that led up to the bar. “No you don’t. You heart me hard and you know it.”
    Kerrigan couldn’t argue with him. She knew it was true, and so did anyone else who had ever been around them for more than a minute. Olivia squealed as Tyson swept her up into his arms and followed after them.
    Once they paid their cover charges and climbed up to the top deck, Kerrigan noticed Dominic scanning the crowd, his features rigid and on high alert. He must not have seen anyone he knew because he relaxed instantly and guided her toward the table Talon and Sydney had secured next to a palm tree that stretched from the ground to their height.
    “We’re going to go get some drinks. Want anything?”
    “Maybe just some water. I’m still not feeling very well.” She rubbed her stomach.
    “You sure you don’t need to go to the doctor or something?” He studied her face, waiting for her reply.
    As genuine as she knew he was trying to be, she rolled her eyes. “It’s just a stomach ache, Dominic. Probably something I ate. I’ll be fine.”
    Gabe crowded them, checking her out with his eyebrows furrowed in concern. He put the back of his hand to her forehead, and then her cheek. “She doesn’t have a fever. We’ll stop and get her some Beano on the way home. Probably just gassy. Let it rip. You’ll feel better. I’m going to get my drink on. Later, bitches!” Gabe picked up his murse and trotted off after Colton to the bar.
    They had become pretty close over the few weeks Colton had been there. Dominic didn’t want his little brother to be alone at any time, worried that Sinclair might somehow figure out a way to trick him. Since he had been so busy with Kerrigan all the time, and the twins had their hands full with their rental shack on the beach—as well as with Sydney and Olivia—that left Gabe. He