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I plastered on my ‘I’m fine’ face and got out, careful not to touch him this time.
“So sorry to keep you waiting,” I said sarcastically. I threw him an icy stare for good measure, but it didn’t fully hide the hurt in my voice.
He cocked his head, his eyebrow rising quizzically. As we walked, I felt his glare raise the hairs on the back of my neck, but it wasn’t until we reached the shadowed courtyard next to the girls’ dorm side door that he spoke.
“Apollo seems to be the only onewaitingon you.”
I slowed to a stop and he paused with me.
The tiredness in my voice came out more than I intended. “Firstly, how dare you assume anything about my relationship, Valen. Secondly–”
“Secondly, what?” he asked, as though daring me to defy him one more time.
I frowned at him and started for the door. “You assume I’m the one holding out?”
He scoffed. “Apollo’s certainly not saving it.”
I rounded on him, shoved him in the chest, and glared up at him. “So that means I must be?”
He looked down on me. In the relative darkness under the hanging wisteria vines, his features were shadowed, but I could feel our bodies brushing against each other. Warmth pooled between my legs and I ached for him. Florence had better be asleep when I got to our room because I was in desperate need of a date with my vibrator in our bathroom.
“If you know what’s good for you, you will be,” Valen snarled.
Oh! It annoyed me at the best of times that I had people dictating my life. Who I could talk to. Who I could see. Who I couldthinkabout fucking. None of it was my choice. I had to be seen as a good little princess and wait around for Apollo even if everyone knew he wasn’t waiting for me. And Valen had made it his personal mission to keep me ‘pure’.
I was done.
I was so ready to pick the first guy I saw and take Florence up on her offer of arranging covert shenanigans behind the big bad wolf’s back.
I was also a bit tipsy and had the mad urge to run my hands over Valen’s hard chest. Valen, who was a guy I could currently see...
FUCK!
My hand was actually on his chest.
I looked back up and saw something flash over his face.
In a moment of bravery, I left it there purposefully. “You don’t tell me what to do,” I warned him, my voice little more that a breathless whisper.
He took a step, forcing me to back into a section of wall and gently laid his hand over my throat. “If it serves Apollo, I will.”
“Apollo doesn’t tell me what to do. Who to want.Whatto want,” I said, lifting my chin in defiance. There was a little too much meaning in my voice, but I didn’t care anymore.
The sizzle of something very definite was swirling around us. I didn’t just think but knew that he was teetering on the edge of kissing me. Here he was, telling me I’d wait for Apollo – the ‘or else’ being heavily implied – and we were so close to the exact opposite. I felt emboldened. I felt a thrill run through me. I didn’t care if it was just the booze talking, I had never been more certain about the fact that someone wanted to kiss me. My heart thudded in nervous anticipation.
A moment passed.
Two.
Like Valen was trying to stop himself from saying something – doing something – he knew he shouldn’t.
He held me against the wall, his hand dominating but exhilarating on my throat.
“You’ve wanted my cock in you since the day you laid eyes on me,” he finally snarled like he just couldn’t help himself.
So maybe he did know exactly what I thought about him all this time. Well, I wasn’t going to be intimidated by the likes of Valen Kincaid, no matter what he did to my insides.
“You’ve wanted your cock in me since the day you laid eyes on me,” I countered.
