Neva stood over me, pressing the matte powder against my skin with a hint of a smile. “You’re looking completely refreshed after your trip to Seattle. Even your skin is glowing.”

I’d tried to play it cool from the moment I walked into the hair and makeup trailer, but I was bursting at the seams to tell someone, especially the two girls who were more like my partners in crime than simply coworkers.

I pressed my fingers to my chest and glanced in the mirror, trying to catch a glimpse of the glow that I’d heard happened after someone had the best sex of their life.

“Am I?”

I turned my face, and I didn’t see light radiating from my complexion. It was only me, a little happier than I was last week, and completely satisfied for the first time in longer than I could remember.

Neva pushed back a few strands of hair that had fallen over my shoulders and moved her face closer, getting a better look. The updo Lexi finished a few minutes ago was something straight out of a fashion magazine and a little too overdone for home improvement television, but I wasn’t going to complain. “This love bite on your neck doesn’t make it hard to understand why either.”

My hand flew to my neck, covering the spot where Kane had bit down and sent me spiraling into a seemingly endless orgasm. That was damn sure unforgettable, but I didn’t realize he left a mark. I hadn’t even bothered to check before we left his hotel room to head back after Bill pounded on the door in a mad panic.

My eyes widened as I peered at Neva in the mirror, seeing the smirk on her face. “Shit. I didn’t…”

Neva bumped my elbow with her hip and crossed her arms over her chest, raising an eyebrow. “You better start talking.”

“I can’t.”

“Girl…”

Lexi walked up behind her, giving me the same look and standing just like Neva, arms crossed and waiting for me to spill the beans. “We don’t have all day, and you didn’t trip and bruise your neck, so don’t give us a load of bullshit either.”

“Fine,” I groaned and dropped my hand from the spot I tried to hide, although I realized just then everyone had probably already seen it. “Can you at least cover it for the set, Neva?”

“You talk. I’ll work.” She reached over me to grab the concealer she’d already placed back in the makeup bin. “Don’t leave a damn thing out.”

I wasn’t going to give them a play-by-play, but I could sprinkle in a few sexy details. Kane was a beast, everything I’d hoped and assumed he’d be. He didn’t lie about not being gentle, but I loved the way he owned me. The generous part was no bullshit either, and besides using my favorite sex toy, I’d never come so many times one after another.

I hadn’t answered right away, so Lexi being Lexi, decided to start with her line of questioning like I was in an interrogation. “Who made the first move?”

“Well, I sang karaoke.”

“You did not.” Neva gawked at me with her eyes as big as saucers. “And he still fucked you?”

“Yeah.”

“That’s like the kiss of death, girl. The man must really have it bad for you.”

Lexi sat down in the chair next to me, watching me in the mirror. “Shut up, Neva. What did you sing?”

“Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around.”

“Shut up.”

“She got some big lady balls, this one, Lexi, right?”

They laughed and I blushed. I’d known the move was risky, but it was easier to sing him the words than to keep beating around the bush. The trip to Seattle was about more than a piece of furniture. It was a “shit or get off the pot” type of thing, and I wasn’t going to let Kane keep on insisting we were only friends anymore.

“Big.” Lexi laughed, answering Neva before she nodded to me. “Keep going.” She rolled her hand in a circle like I’d been the one to stop the conversation when it was entirely their fault.

“Anyway, after Kane knocked some poor kid off the stage—”

“What?”

“Shut up, Neva. You know Kane ain’t going to let anyone touch what’s his. Let her get to the good stuff already.”

“So, after he stormed off and went back to his hotel room, I went after him.”

“That’s my girl.”

Lexi gave Neva the same shut-the-fuck-up glare she’d just given her moments ago. “You interrupt one more time and I’m going to give you bangs, and we both know you don’t look good with them.”

Neva snarled but didn’t say another word. I had to agree with Lexi. Neva looked like shit with bangs, and they weren’t in style this season anyway. That much I knew just from hanging out with the girls because fashion in any form wasn’t my thing.

“We have five minutes until Kane’s here. You better talk fast.” Lexi gave me a stern look, and I wondered if she was going to ask Kane the same questions she was asking me.

“I went to his room and pushed my way inside.”

“You made the first move?” Neva slapped her hand over her mouth, knowing she was on the verge of losing some hair. She quickly snatched the scissors off the station and jammed them into her back pocket. “I’ll shut up now.”

I was laughing so hard at this point, I was practically in tears, but I kept talking before all hell broke loose between them. “I pushed my way inside and told him I was done playing games.”

When I paused, remembering the way Kane stalked toward me and grabbed my hips before he kissed me, Lexi shook my chair, growing impatient. “Come on. Don’t stop there, or I’ll give you bangs too.” She smiled playfully, knowing full well that my forehead was too short for bangs and I’d look like the world’s biggest fashion don’t if I had them.

“I told him I couldn’t keep pretending.”

“My girl. She’s a genius.” They both beamed like proud teachers, pleased that their student had successfully carried out the assignment without missing a single step.

“Bed?” Lexi raised an eyebrow.

“There was a bed in there somewhere,” I said, smirking like an idiot remembering the way he did me.

“Where else?”

“Please don’t say the floor. You know how unsanitary those hotel rooms can be,” Neva said, scrunching her face.

“Neva, shut the fuck up. You’ve done it in the bathroom at a club. Can’t be any place dirtier than there.”

“Lexi, my love, I remember you banging that intern against the dumpster at the last remodel. Don’t judge me.”

I scrubbed my hands down my face, my cheeks aching from smiling so much at Lexi and Neva as they hurled insults back and forth like it was a sport.

“Did you get off?”

“I mean…” I paused and bit my lip because I wasn’t sure how much detail I should tell them. They may never be able to look at Kane the same way again. “Well, yeah.”

“More than once?”

“Oh, yeah.”

“He a biter? Based on that mark on your neck, I’d say he’s a rough one.” Lexi bounced in her chair like she was riding a bull, bucking against the leather. “Damn that’s hot.”

“Yeah, I can’t picture Kane gentle, and he doesn’t seem like a missionary kinda guy either.”

“He’s definitely not.”

All three of us giggled until Kane cleared his throat and closed the trailer door. We’d all been so engrossed in the conversation that I wasn’t sure how long he’d been standing there.

“Oh, hey, Kane. We were just talking about Asher,” Lexi said, trying to play it off, but based on the look on Kane’s face, he’d heard more than we wanted him to.

“Umm-hmm,” he muttered, walking toward the chair as Lexi scurried to her feet for Kane to sit down.

He glanced my way, shooting me a quick wink and a smile. I probably looked like a deer in headlights, freaked out that maybe I said too much and I wasn’t sure how Kane would take us talking about our sex life.

“You ladies having a good morning?” Kane glanced at each of them in the mirror, throwing them his panty-melting smile, the one he pulled off without even trying.

“Yep.” Lexi grabbed the clippers off her station but didn’t look Kane in the eyes. “How about you? Have a nice trip?”

Neva sucked her lips into her mouth to stop herself from laughing. I gave her a don’t fucking do it face in the mirror because I knew she was chomping at the bit to say something to him.

“Perfect.”

Lexi smacked her lips together, fighting back a shit-eating grin. “We heard.”

“And, ladies,” Kane said, grinning from ear to ear. “Real men don’t dig missionary.”

My mouth dropped open, and I gripped the side of the chair, trying to stop myself from falling clean out of it. Kane had always been so private, but today, he was playful and willing to share more than I ever imagined.

Lexi and Neva glanced at each other, mouths hanging open and just as shocked as I was with Kane’s statement. He, on the other hand, looked pleased that he was able to shut everyone up and gave them what they wanted with a single statement.

Kane Kaino never ceased to amaze me, changing into someone I hadn’t seen before. He was playful and, dare I say, happier than I’d ever seen him before.