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He tugged her into the shop and insisted she buy not only that dress, but also three others. Lily remained almost silent during the exchange, the sales clerk talking a mile a minute to try to make up for the obvious discomfort between she and Aiden.
He was silent for the drive back to her place, and she wondered if this was it. If she’d just ruined what little bit of a relationship they had. But, she had to be honest with herself and with him, right? Theyhadsaid this was just for fun. In fact, he’d been the one who was adamant about that.
When they got to her door, she turned and looked up at him. “Are you coming in?”
“For fun?” he asked. “Oh yeah. I’m coming in,” he said with a dark glint in his eyes that might have scared her if she hadn’t known he would never hurt her.
He pushed her into the front entrance of her apartment and shut the door behind them, flicking the lock. Lily’s breaths were coming all too short as he eyed her as if she were a meal laid out just for him. His eyes traveled over her body in a painstaking survey of what was his, and she all but shuddered under his scrutiny.
She didn’t have time to process the intensity of his gaze before he stripped her bare, tearing her shirt as he went. He pulled her jeans down her hips, taking her panties with them, his hands running over her body possessively. He was silent, angry, and hotter than she cared to admit.
Her entire body tingled as he backed her down the hall to her room, taking his clothes off one piece at a time, his eyes never leaving her. He left a trail of clothes behind them, lifting her to the bed and coming down on top of her, his mouth taking hers with a strength and intensity that left her weak. She was lost in the sensations wracking her body, overtaking her mind completely, not understanding how his intense anger could be so incredibly arousing. But, there was no mistaking the ache between her thighs and the hard press of his steel erection as it rubbed against her.
She was vaguely aware of him putting on a condom before he used his leg to spread hers apart then teased her with the head of his cock at her entrance. She pushed up with her hips, using all her strength to take him into her, but he had her completely pinned, unable to move much more than an inch with her hips.
“Please,” she whispered. “Now, Aiden, please.”
“This isn’t fun for you?” he asked, the wicked glint in his eyes as he teased her raising the heat level that much higher.
“No. I need more. I need you inside me.” As she said the words, Lily knew she did need more from Aiden. A lot more. She closed her eyes tight to try to push away the dawning reality that she wanted so much more from him than fun. She wanted a lifetime with him. She wanted commitment, and caring and a future. Not just sex.
He seemed just as eager to deny the truth of what was developing between them because he didn’t demand she open her eyes as he had on other occasions. He slammed into her then in one full, hard stroke that made her cry out, but felt so good, so utterly right. And, he didn’t let up as she clung to him, digging her nails into his shoulders. He kept up an unrelenting pace, pushing so deeply with each hard thrust of his hips, she knew it probably should have caused her pain, but it didn’t. It drove her to orgasm so quickly and then held her there, drawing out the pulsing of her muscles over and over as she cried out his name.
She felt it the moment when he came, his whole body tightening as he groaned his release and held still, deep inside of her. They lay together, tangled in a heap for long moments, doing nothing more than struggling for breath. Then Aiden’s strong arms wrapped around her and he flipped them, still joined together, so that she lay sprawled on top of him.
Aiden framed her face with his hands and kissed her long and slow, gently, before pulling back to look in her eyes. “I’m sorry. I overreacted.”
Lily didn’t want to let herself hope that maybe she saw more in his eyes. That maybe there was the beginning of love in his gaze. That maybe this was beginning to be more to him, just the way it was most definitely more than just fun for her now. She didn’t want to go there, because it scared the daylights out of her. If she let herself hope and believe this was headed somewhere it wasn’t, she’d be crushed in the end.
She did the only thing she could. She blew off his apology and lightened the tone right back to where she could handle things. Right back to sex.
With a laugh, she rolled away and grabbed a shirt to toss on. “No problem. Angry sex is pretty incredible with you.”
On the inside, she was thinking the makeup sex should be just as incredible, but she needed space. She felt his eyes on her, the weight of his stare, as she walked from the room.
“I’m gonna take a shower,” she said over her shoulder, and shut the door with a soft click.
Chapter Twelve
The heartbreak Lily had been trying to avoid came two weeks later. She and Aiden had continued to ignore the reality of what was happening to them. They’d gone on seeing each other almost every spare minute they had. They went to dinner, spent nights at his place most of the time, and even went so far as to talk and laugh in bed together despite the fact that this was supposed to be just a physical relationship.
But, they didn’t talk about reality. They didn’t talk about a future or their hopes and dreams. And Lily knew why. She knew there wasn't a future. There were no hopes and dreams. At least, not for them as a couple. As two separate people? Yes. Together? No.
The funny thing was, the catalyst that caused him to leave came from the most unlikely source imaginable. It was an article written by a blogger. Some guy named Brian James—who apparently wrote about team gossip almost as much as he wrote about the actual sport of baseball—published a picture of Lily leaving Aiden’s townhouse.
The headline read: “Next to Fall?” The article told the story of something the writer had named ‘The Triple Play Curse.’ Apparently, the Strikers’ players believed they had a curse following their team. When one Striker fell in love and either got married or engaged in a season, two more were destined to fall in love. And, the team believed they suffered every time it happened. They lost pennants or had more injuries or whatever, but they somehow suffered.
And, according to Brian James, Rafe Wilson triggered the curse this year and Aiden was about to become its second ‘victim.’
Lily stared at the article, sent to her by one of her friends on Facebook.Victim. Wow, that made her sound great. Like some kind of disease Aiden was about to catch, or a barracuda about to take down the great Aiden Kyle. Lovely.
And, it wasn’t a surprise to Lily when Aiden texted that night after the game and said he was too tired to see her. Nor was it a surprise when he came to her place the following afternoon and told her he thought they should take a break.
Lily laughed. “That usually means break up, and since we were just having fun, I’m guessing this means we’re finished,” she said, not at all feeling the nonchalance and humor she threw on her face to try to ward off the blow.
But, God, she was feeling that blow.
“I’m sorry, Lily,” Aiden said softly, and she knew he really was on some level. But, that didn’t change the fact that he simply didn’t want anything more than fun in bed with her. That much was clear.
