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Alice's gleeful, "Oh, Jazzy! Bella, look!" interrupts our moment.
"Wow, Alice, that's beautiful," Bella answers, clearly sounding distracted—at least, to me.
Bella tips forward and covers my lips with hers, leaving a long, langorous kiss. She nips her way back to my ear, where her whisper tickles at the edges of my flesh. "I'm gonna go put this on for you right now."
When Bella pulls back, her eyes make me not want to release her from my lap. But the promise of her wearing my mark in that semi-secret spot all night is enough to loosen my hands.
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I sneak one parting leer down the crisscross-covered skin as she pushes herself away.
'Be right back,' she mouths, adding a flirty wink and palming the jewelry. "Let's see, Alice. Ooh, awesome charms! Hey, let's go get you changed."
The girls head off with linked arms and a spray of giggles while Jasper and I sit and wait. The room is suddenly quiet without their effervescence.
"You psyched to go?" I venture.
Jasper shrugs. "I guess. Did you see how excited the girls are?"
"Hard to miss."
We both grin. Headlights bathe the room and there's a horn.
"Taxi's here."