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His lips were sealed with Helios’ fist instead.
“Jack!” MJ screamed as her companion fell to the ground. Kneeling down, she demanded worriedly, “Are you all right?” She tried helping him up but Jack waved her away, choosing to push himself up on his own. He shook his head, touching his jaw gingerly. “He took me by surprise, that’s all.” He looked up at Helios. “Care to do it again now that I’m aware you’re dying to beat me up?”
Helios’ rage and jealousy were fast reaching its boiling point at the way MJ was still clinging to the other man. “Any time.”
MJ gasped at Helios’ answer. “Are you—oh my God, why did you even hit him in the first place? He hasn’t done anything wro—” The resentful glare Helios threw at her shocked MJ so much she found herself trailing off.
“I need to talk to you for a moment,” Helios bit out.
She shook her head. “No. I have to take care of Jack—”
Hearing another man’s name on her lips was the last straw. “Now.” Helios pulled her up and dragged her with him back into the dorm.
MJ swallowed the urge to resist, not wanting to create an even greater scandal. After what Jack had revealed to her, she knew now that what had happened would be all over the Internet in minutes. She looked at Jack over her shoulder. “I’ll be right back—”
Helios yanked her to his side, and she fell against him as they disappeared into the corner of the hallway of Helios’ room. “Not while I’m fucking here, you won’t,” he snarled. When he opened the door, he pulled her inside and kicked the door shut, locking it right after.
When Helios turned to face her, she demanded, “What’s wrong with you? Why did you hit him?”
He roared back, “He’s flirting with you in front of me. Did you truly think I would not react?”
She couldn’t be further surprised. In the past, she had tried getting Helios to admit in private that he was jealous about the time she spent cleaning the officers’ bedrooms, and he had almost bitten her head off for it. And yet here he was now, saying something that he would once rather choke on a mouthful of thorns for.
“That’s not how a normal guy reacts.” The words just came out of her mouth and when Helios flinched, she regretted saying it right away. She hadn’t meant to say it, but she had still done so in the end.
Helios’ fists clenched. “This is what a normal guy in my book does. If I had been acting like who I really was, if I had been the President of the Afxisi, I’d have knocked him out cold.”
Deeeeeym, MJ thought helplessly as she found her anger over Helios’ mistreatment of Jack disappearing at his words. Those words were so cool, and only someone like Helios Andreadis would have been able to speak them without looking like he was exaggerating.
When Helios saw MJ squeeze her eyes shut, a look of pain on her face, he forgot about his jealous anger and stalked towards her, demanding tautly, “What’s wrong? Are you sick? Are you hurt?”
A crazed laugh escaped her. “Everything’s wrong with me.” She looked at him with teary eyes. “I want to forget you. I wish I could go back to the day that I didn’t even know someone like you existed—”
Helios shook his head fiercely. “No. Don’t say that.”
“Why?” she cried out. “Because you miss having a stupid little girl who follows you around like a puppy dog as a girlfriend?”
He grabbed her shoulders and looked at her. The torment in her eyes told him that it was time to reveal another truth to her. If he wanted them to be together, the right way, there must be no secrets kept between them. He said raggedly, “Because I know that the day you found out about me was the day you chose to live.”
