Touch Me While I Taste You

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Arabella Rivera

“First, close my damn door. And try being a little gentle this time?” Dark annoyed eyes smoked a fog of irritation towards Haiden’s brooding posture that stood in the entryway.

Upon Mr. Boyd’s sarcastic request, Haiden’s jaw ticked, the jaw bone growing more prominent by the action. M y eyes leer at the faint bruise he spotted o n the slightly tan flesh of his jaw. The discoloring under his left eye began to fade but was also still very noticeable.

With a low pant of annoyance. Haiden reaches for the door and slams it shut. It rattles, indicating that it was close to falling off its hinges. “Happy?” He asked tightly, voice thickening with what I presume was irritation.

As soon as the words are let out, the sad excuse of a map that hung on the door, falls to the floor limply behind Haiden’s boots.

My eyes draw to Mr. Boyd waiting for his reaction at hearing the blatant bold

action at hearing the blatant bold disrespect in Haiden’s voice. The man always looked furious but the shadow of anger he spotted now, competed against any previous one before. Haiden had ticked off the man, a lot.

The tightness of his frame and the glare o fannoyance said it all. Mr. Boyd drew in a breath that calmed him down before he said anything out of the way. His frame relaxed too. As if finally realizing that Haiden was not worth arguing with.

He lifts a hand to his forehead, rubbing the skin as if to ward off a splitting headache. “You damn kids.” He murmurs lowly.

Damn kids? He better be speaking about Haiden, I had nothing to do with this sudden annoyance he was now spotting. I n fact, I’m innocent in all of this. I just came to hold up my own side of the deal.

the bright red B on my paper was taunting me, therefore I wasn’t

Boyd pinched the skin

and dragged out a n exaggerated sigh.” You try to help them and

draw in my bottom lip between my teeth, chewing on it lightly to suppress m y laughter at the use of Mr. Boyd’s

was just something about his gaze that had a flame as flickering as a wildfire creeping through my veins that led to goosebumps

is she here?” The gruff displeased voice had my teeth loosening on my lip and dropping it entirely out of shock. The way he acknowledged me wasn’t all that great

behind his sudden bitterness. Haiden was cold and I had grown used to it,

can’t recall doing

doing anything to him and I hadn’t spoken to him

it was nothing he’d not like. Actually, I think we both liked it. Dreams aren’t reality though. And this reality, was

to his sides and with a frown on his face, voices out.” I found you someone who

until I could feel the penetrating stare. He was calculating something in his head, I could just tell. The way his brows lined in a frown

he definitely voiced it out. “You found someone and it’s her?” The way he said her was like he was

His heavy tone

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around the door handle when M r. Boyd’s edgy voice stops him. “If you walk out

turns around. His eyes are like ice, cold, chilling and

a storm. One I’d not want to get trapped in. Unfortunately, it seems I have tangled myself in this situation unwillingly and unknowingly. Was it too late to back out and

of the deal, I couldn’t. I needed that B to turn into an A. I can’t afford to