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One day.
Maybe not tomorrow, or next week. But I know both Maddox and Lila will eventually succumb to the sexual tension between us. Either he will break first, or Lila will. And when they do, it might just be volatile. Because that’s how intense they are together.
“What about Grayson? Still the gentleman?” Lila asks, shoving the last bite of her pizza slice into her mouth.
“He hasn’t touched me below the waist yet.”
“Ugh.”
There’s one thing about Grayson. He’s a little too thoughtful and too respectful. I know he wants me; I’ve felt just how hard his dick gets during our heated make-out sessions, but he’s never made a move beyond our kisses. I know he’s giving me time, that he wants to take this slowly.
But—
I think I am more than ready now.
If only I had a way to tell him that.
He wants me, I know it. I see it in his heated stares and feel the fevered passion in his touches. But I need his passion without the clothes between us, without a barrier.
I need skin to skin.
I don’t know how this happened, or how exactly it began.
I don’t understand how my heart has quickly become entangled with his.
My anxiety comes with a lot of overthinking and trust issues, but somehow, my gut instincts tell me that Grayson is trustworthy. He is safe. I knew he was, since the night in the alley. Because if he was a dangerous man, someone with vile intentions, he wouldn’t have let me go that night. Like he once said…it was kismet that brought us together.
And for once in my life, I want to trust my fate with him.
My heart is safe with Grayson.
Lila reaches for her laptop and then plops back against her set of pillows. She has more pillows on her bed than actual sleeping space. “Wait, are you going to Colton’s party next weekend?”
My mood instantly sours at the mention of his name.
“I’m not really interested,” I grumble under my breath.
I’ve avoided him since Halloween night, and to my utter surprise, he hasn’t been much of a bother either. His dirty remarks and vile taunts have been shockingly non-existent.
Somehow, I think he’s been acting like less of a jerk because Maddox is friends with Lila now. And I am Lila’s best friend. If he’s an asshole to me, Lila will have a problem with it, which will then become Maddox’s problem. Because everything that concerns Lila, concerns him too.
Because of the relationship between Maddox and Lila, Colton and I run in the same circles now. He’s everywhere I look, everywhere I go. Always present, like a looming shadow over me.
Colton is a constant reminder of what I want to forget— the moment I spent in his arms, and the heartbreak that came afterward.
His cruel words are seared in my memory; he’s tainted my soul with them. He made me feel dirty… and humiliated. Like I was just some common whore who he got off.
My first orgasm was charity from Colton Bennett.
But he’s been really quiet around me lately and we’re tolerating each other for the sake of Maddox and Lila, but…I feel his burning stares on me all the time.
Colton Bennett watches me and there’s a predatory feel in his gaze. Sometimes it seems like there’s an invisible chain holding him back, and he’s just waiting for the moment it snaps.
He knows I want nothing to do with him; yet, his eyes are always on me.
It unnerves me — his defiant attention.
There’s a bitterness that resides in Colton.
