LYRA

"I didn't hear you come in," I said. That never happens. I'm always aware of my surroundings so how did I let my guard down enough for him to get through?

That wasn't good, I was getting too comfortable in here.

"You were concentrating." He walked further into the ballroom, his footsteps echoing through the ballroom. "Dance isn't about counting. It's about feeling the music."

"That's easy to say when you've been trained since childhood."

"True." He stopped a few feet away. "Would you ...