The Day I Kissed An Older Man by Cher the Cherished

"Me? Out of my mind? Did you have to react so dramatically to me? Why didn't you react that way with that other guy?" Lucas narrowed his eyes threateningly.

"What did you think Nathan and I were doing in my lounge?" Melody gestured to herself with a perplexed expression. Lucas offered no response, yet his silence spoke volumes.

"What do you take me for, Lucas? Just because you don't respect me doesn't mean you can assume that others won't either!" Irritated, she took two steps back and distanced herself from him.

The lounge door was wide open when he entered. If she had harbored ulterior motives, she would have been an idiot to leave the door open like that. They had merely signed a contract, and he had no right to attack another man as if he was her boyfriend-which he clearly was not.

this have to do with respect? Do you think it's appropriate for you to be so

that there was never a condition in the contract that allows us to interfere in another person's private life?" Melody retorted angrily. Lucas had

do you mean? Do you want to renegotiate the contract?" Lucas sneered, but his pained expression contradicted the

only reiterating the terms. You set those conditions yourself, didn't you? Weren't you concerned that I might develop feelings and use them against you when you inserted that clause in the contract?" Though the contract explicitly prohibited Melody from having feelings for Lucas, developing such feelings was not something she had full control over. It was also one of the reasons Melody loathed herself. She had failed in that aspect, and

the other day about asking you to reconsider our relationship?"

her voice cracking. She did not expect Lucas to try to

then ignore after that? If your relationship with Thalia is

feelings that she never should have had in the first place,

tried to figure out what was going on in her mind. "I've already