Spoopy Scary
Cyadical
ButtsnBalls
DamyclesRising to her feet, Eris winked at Vera before giving his shoulder a gentle squeeze. "Let me know when you're ready to leave, and I'll fetch the valet to bring your car around, eh? You two enjoy yourselves." With that, Eris sauntered away with a shit-eating grin, which in return, only made her cheeks turn the very shade of her red lips. She tried in vain to hide her blush behind the narrow rim of the slender, crystal glass, letting the sweet taste of the alcohol give her much needed encouragement.
"And raising suspicions is something we ought to avoid." She replied, springing off the black leather barstool with a pep in her step, "Of course I dance, Mr. Alden. Any well-mannered woman knows a dance or two, or at least she should in circumstances like this." Here, she extended her hand for him to take, so as he could lead her out to the dance floor.
"I hope you do as well, so as not to embarrass either of us." Red lips parted in a teasing smile, the spirits had certainly given her encouragement after all, and soothed her strained nerves from having to put up with the Fraulein. As for standing so close to Shay, let alone dancing with his hand touching the small of her back made her heart flutter. Never in her life had she danced with a man that she didn't know, meaning, anyone that wasn't Samuel, as she subjected him to learn to dance for her sake, as well as his own, when they were children. She begged for her beating heart to still, and in the crevices of her mind, wondered if Shay could even see beneath the thin satin fabric of the dress she wore, her pounding heart, for it surely felt as if it would burst free from beneath cage of bones that held it in place.
