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I walk up to her and her back hits against the wall when I corner her. Her head tilts and her flowery scent hits me and I get lost in her. My hand caresses her face slowly. Her breaths come out in soft pants, and I can tell she is nervous.
“I lied.”
Her brows pinch in confusion and she visibly swallows. “About what?”
My chest rises and falls faster with each breath. This girl affects me like no other and I can’t explain it. All I can do is act on what I’m feeling and what I’m feeling is crazy.
I want to be inside her balls deep while I make her come and she screams my name emptying inside her, making her mine. But that can’t happen. What I want is for her to acknowledge she finds me attractive. That this attraction is not one sided and it is the only thing I want from her right now. For some reason, it is important to me to know what she thinks of me. At least, physically.
My lips hover over hers and I’m relieved she doesn’t pull away or protest. “I think you’re breathtakingly gorgeous.”
She raises a brow. “But you said you found me ugly and unattractive.”
My head dips near her ear and I whisper, “Does it feel like I find you unattractive?” My lips are inches from her skin that I am dying to kiss so I can feel what she feels like on my lips. “You feel it, too. Don’t you, Aura.”
She pulls back to take a breath. “Yes, Kalum. I feel it.”
She feels the pull. The pull that feels like two magnets that want to snap toward each other when they are near. My eyes close and the backs of two fingers slide down to her neck so I can feel her pulse beat and it is beating rapidly. Aura does something to me. For some reason, she is permanently inside of my head.
“You’re so beautiful. It hurts,” I tell her. Her head slowly lifts, and her brown gaze finds mine. Her soft velvety lips part and I want to kiss her but I know I can’t. Aura is fragile right now and I will be no better than any other guy trying to take advantage of her vulnerability. “Does this mean you find me attractive?”
Her pink tongue peeks out from her parted lips and a blush appears on her cheeks. I give her a grin, raising my brow waiting for her answer.
“Yes,” she finally says.
“I need you to do something for me,” I say softly, our bodies inches apart with my fingers still resting on her neck. She is so much shorter than me. She can’t be no more than a little over five feet tall.
“Okay.”
“Don’t ever take another man’s jacket. If you need one, I will make sure you have one.” She nods. “From now on, I’ll take you to school. You don’t walk alone. Is that understood, Aura?”
She nods again. “Words, sweetheart. I need words.” I say softly.
“Yes, Kalum.”
“We are attracted to each other, but it doesn’t solidify anything between us.”
The light in her eyes dims and she moves so that I have no choice but to drop my hand from her neck. Now she is angry, and I know what I just said is not what she expected to hear but I was proving a point and I made it. Mission accomplished.
My pride is back to normal. Nothing can happen between us. We are too different, and we come from different worlds. It wouldn’t be fair to her. Something passes over her features and it has me worried pinching my brows because she freezes and her chin lifts. Her lips form a thin line and her eyes flash like an impending storm.
“Fine, but don’t touch me like that ever again. Are we clear? I may be attracted to you physically but emotionally I’m not. We are not the same and I was brought up to respect myself and the fact that a guy wants to keep his attraction to a girl a secret can only mean one thing.”
“Yeah, and what is that?” I quip, clearly annoyed.
“You are ashamed of it. You don’t want anyone to know because you care too much about what people think. I get it why you came in here, you just wanted to prove your point. You won. Happy now?”
I’m not happy. I’ve made things worse by hurting her. She’s right but I wasn’t prepared to feel this attraction to her, and I don’t even know her. What was I thinking?
She’s one of the housekeepers. This is not some girl I can bang and toss her aside. She sleeps in the room next to mine. I would have to look at her after I’m done with her.
“You know what?” I step back with my hand on the latch to the dressing room door. “You’re right. I’m sorry. I acted like a jerk and I took advantage of you. It was a mistake, and it shouldn’t have happened. You work in my house and once you graduate, you will be someone my parents hired to clean.”
She stiffens and the look of hurt across her face almost has me taking the words back.
Almost.
She smooths out her uniform and I have to admire her pride because I can sense she wants to tell me to go screw myself, but it will not help her cause or the situation she is in.
