Chapter 0294

“Ariel,” Luca sighs, shaking his head and smiling as he turns back to me, buttoning his pants. “It’s not going to happen like this.”

“What’s not going to happen!?” I ask, tossing out a hand.

“It’s…” Luca says, his emphasis on the word, and his raised eyebrow making it very clear what he means, “not going to happen like this.”

I jump to my feet in protest, my hands fisted at my side. “Luca!” I hiss, angry. “I mean, you don’t get to decide that for both of us! There are two of us here!”

He sighs a little through his nose, frustrated, and then lightning–fast he reaches for me, grabbing me by the waist and pulling me tight against

num, running his fingers through my

them lightly around the back of my neck before I have time to even think,

room, Ariel?” he murmurs, smirking down at me, shaking his head and staring into my eyes with his pretty brown ones. “With my uncle, and your bodyguard, and a passel of teenage boys on the other side of that wall?” He nods slightly

I know that’s not what I want, my hands move to his waist. And then I watch Luca shudder, and press his eyes shut as I flatten my palms against his ribs and run

ghght against him.

how I know that Luca isn’t nearly as resistant to me as he was pretending to be just a minute ago. And I smile.

whisper, soft and teasing.

lockers. I gasp when my shoulders clang against the metal, but it’s not that it hurts – not at all, Luca’s very careful with

at

of my neck up so that he cradles

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