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Chapter Six
It was when MJ startedloading the dishwasher that she realized she was not alone in the kitchen. Heart jumping to her throat, she spun around, arm raised in a defensive stance, ready to beat the intruder to death in case he wanted to do something nasty.
But it was only Helios.
She let out a loud sigh of relief. “You scared me. I thought you were a bad guy.”
Helios raised a brow. “And if I were, would you have tried scaring me away with a...whisk?”
MJ glanced down at what she was holding. Oh. She was indeed holding a whisk.Deeeeym. She put it in the sink. Looking back at Helios, it suddenly hit her that it was just two of them in the kitchen. Her heart started beating faster again at the realization.
Helios still stood at the kitchen’s doorway, wearing only a pair of sweat pants and nothing else. He looked, as always, larger than life, and when he took a step inside the kitchen, MJ’s mouth went dry. Each step that took him closer to her made MJ feel more nervous and restless. His hair was unbound, which meant he had been about to sleep – or had already been sleeping. Helios only left his hair untied when he was inside his bedroom.
“D-Did I wake you up?” Logically speaking, that couldn’t have been possible if he had been in his bedroom, which was four floors above the kitchen.
Instead of answering, Helios closed the distance between them. He had paced his room endlessly while waiting for her to come back. It was her first time to stay out this late, and not knowing the reason for it ate at him.
“Where have you been?”
She did not even think of lying or asking why it was his business to know. There was something ominous in Helios’ voice, telling her she would be better off not arguing. And so she said quietly, “I joined a photography club. Tonight was a lunar eclipse...”
A photography club.Maybe that club was made up of yet another group of men?
The words were out before he could stop himself. “And do you have a secret crush there, too?”
Helios’ snide question had her blinking in hurt confusion. “What are you saying?”
“You tell me.” His control had snapped, his mind filled with visions of MJ surrounded by men. And this time, those men were not of his club, men who were not under his control and did not owe him allegiance.
“I’m beginning to wonder if your secret crush even exists at all. Or maybe it’s all a product of a cunningly crafted strategy so you can flirt with everyone, have everyone’s attention, and nobody will think you’re a slut—”
MJ’s slap cut the rest of his words off.
For a moment, they stared at each other. MJ’s eyes flashed with hurt anger. Helios’ gaze seared her with contempt...and something else that she couldn’t name.
And then he moved.
The next thing she knew, he had her half-lying on the table and he was standing between her legs. “No one ever touches me.”
That was when she remembered Hallie’s words.
And her heart broke.
