Authors: Marian Tee
Off Guard (3 page)
She gasped, her eyes widening, her breath hitching.
“We are not fucking over yet.” He started rubbing her clit.
Oooooh…
She tried to keep herself from getting lost in his touch.
But then he started rubbing her clit faster and harder.
Ooooooh…
She closed her eyes and let it take her away again.
****
Three days had passed since
that
happened and each day was emptier than the other.
And now this…
He couldn’t stop staring at her. Three fucking days she had ignored him and he had done his best to ignore her back. If she thought he was just a rebound guy and now regretted making out with him, then that was fucking fine with him. Countless girls wanted him. She was just one of the many.
But deep down inside, Hadrian knew it wasn’t true.
Waking up that night alone in his bed, Gabby not answering her phone, had pissed him off. But more than that, it hurt him. Was she ashamed now that she had made out with him? She had always been the goody-two-shoes type, the kind that believed she had to walk down the aisle a virgin. Did she now think he had corrupted her and blamed him for it?
When she actually tried to move around him, her eyes not meeting his, Hadrian snapped. He grabbed her elbow and ignoring her loud protests, he dragged her with him all the way out of school and into the parking lot.
“Let go of me!”
He opened his car door. “Get in.”
“No!”
“I said,
get in
.”
She didn’t want to do what he said but it was
that
tone and even now, it was still effective. She got in. He slammed the door shut, hard enough to make her flinch. And then he was getting in from the other door, pressing a button to lock themselves in.
His nearness drove her crazy. It made her remember all those things they did and…oh God!
“What the hell’s eating you?”
“YOU!”
“What the fuck does that mean?” he roared.
Tears struck her eyes. How dare he sound so furious with her? “And you call yourself my friend,” she spat.
He gritted out between clenched teeth, “You’re not making any fucking sense.”
“If you can’t handle the fact that you kissed me, then I’m sorry!” she shouted. “I didn’t ask for your pity! It’s not my fault that you were so filled with pity you kissed me! And then you ignore me, acting like it’s my fault—”
He kissed her, hard, thoroughly, and so beautifully that she could only succumb to it, the familiar taste of his lips addictive.
When Hadrian lifted his head, she asked shakily, “What do you think you’re doing?”
“Taking pity on you,” he answered flatly before kissing her again.
The kiss went on for an eternity. And when he finally allowed her to breathe, she had completely lost the will to fight. “Hadrian,” she whispered.
He looked at her.
She admitted brokenly, “I don’t want you gone from my life again.”
With a groan, he pulled her to his lap and she went to him eagerly, her arms weaving around his neck tightly.
“What happens now?” she whispered against his neck.
“I’m not boyfriend material,” he told her harshly.
She became paralyzed. Oh God, did that mean he would leave her again?
“But…the days you were gone were the fucking worst days of my life.”
She started breathing again.
He tipped her chin up. “So…what do you say we take it day by day?”
She said unevenly, “I’d…like that.”
He watched her gnaw on her lip and knew she was worried again. “What?” He was doing his best to control himself, knowing they still had stuff to sort out.
“I don’t think…” She took a deep breath. “I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can handle it if you have other girls while we figure out—”
He kissed her. “You don’t have to worry about me wanting anyone else. I’ve been having wet dreams about you for
years
, baby.”
Her eyes widened. “But—”
Hadrian brought her hand to his cock. “Let me fuck you tonight and you’ll understand how much I want you.”
The rawness of his tone made her gulp and turn red. “Hadrian,” she protested.
“I’ve always been your slave, baby. You just didn’t know it till now.”
The words stunned her, aroused her, but most of all it humbled her that someone like Hadrian would say something like it – for her. She struggled to speak, couldn’t, and so even as her face flushed a deeper shade of red, she did her best to make herself understood by squeezing his cock.
His eyes widened.
She squeezed it harder.
And then he was kissing her, and she sighed in surrender, satisfied that he understood what she could not say.
THE END
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Marian Tee is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of steamy romantic comedies. She is Filipino-Chinese, has lived all her life in the Philippines, and is a frustrated
mangaka
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