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I’ve felt the electric current that flows between us. It was present on the plane when his body pressed into mine and he nearly kissed me. He let go of his control for just a second. His walls toppled, and I saw the broken boy underneath the cool exterior.
Tarian pushes up from his chair and stalks around the desk. He closes the distance between us, and when he’s inches from where I’m sitting, his hands grasp the arms of my chair and his face leans into mine. We’re a hairsbreadth apart, and his warmth cocoons me. He may not be touching me, but it feels as if his palms are all over me.
“Are we friends, Grecia? The only people I consider to be my friends are Ares and Etienne,” he responds, keeping his voice as cool and calm as ever.
Tarian doesn’t lose control, but this is one of those moments when I wish he would. I know if I move or attempt to kiss him right now, it will change our dynamic, but I’m still not sure if it will push him away or finally make him accept the connection between us. It might bring us closer, but I could also end up losing him forever.
I’m not ready to take the risk, so instead, I settle back in my seat and smile. I shrug off his comment as if it’s nothing, but my body is trembling, and I know he can see it. He’s reading me, his gaze trailing from my shaking hands, up to my mouth, and then to my eyes.
“Tell me you want me to fuck you,” he murmurs, his voice so low I almost can’t hear it.
My heart is thudding against my ribs painfully.
“Why should I tell you that?” I choke out past the lump in my throat.
He tilts his head to the side, and his tongue toys with his lip ring for a moment as he considers his answer.
“Because you do.”
“How would you know what I want?”
The corner of his mouth lifts, and the silver piercing glints with promise.
“Because I can see what’s locked inside that pretty little head of yours, Grecia. You want my dick deep inside you, but you’re scared that if we fuck, you’ll never want to be with another man.”
“You’re such an overconfident asshole, Tarian. Your delusional if you think I’d be so obsessed with you that I couldn’t move on,” I bite out as I push my hands against his chest. “I’m not like those other girls.”
The moment my palms land on his body I realize I’ve made a mistake. His heat sears me. It feels as if I’m a live wire with electricity shooting through every nerve ending.
He tilts his head to the side and smirks. “I think you’re the one lying to yourself.”
“Fuck you, Tarian. I told you I was here for you as a friend.”
He shakes his head and chuckles before stepping back and allowing me to rise from the chair. His gaze falls to my bare thighs, and he watches as I move away from him. A spark of something in those blue depths has me stopping to see if he’ll apologize, even though I know he won’t.
A girl can dream. Can’t she?
“You’re cold and heartless.” I remind him of something he once said to me. “That’s a fact.”
“And I’m calling you out, Grecia. My family is fucked up, and here you are wanting to bounce on my dick. Don’t deny it. I can read you better than any book,” he tells me.
Anger burns in his stare, and I realize this isn’t about me and him, this is about whatever he’s read on the laptop.
He’s projecting his rage for his mother onto me. And that’s not something I’m willing to accept. I understand what it’s like to have fucked up parents. I get what it means to have family you’d rather run from than deal with. But I refuse to surrender to an attack for something I had no hand in.
“Listen to me, Tarian Calvert,” I grit through clenched teeth as I take two steps toward him, only stopping when his body is flush with mine. “You’re a fucking asshole, and if you think I can’t walk away from you, then you’re sorely fucking mistaken. You may have been born into a shitty family, but so has everyone else in Tynewood. Me, Ares, Etienne, even Dahlia and Rukaiya. Do not ever, and I mean ever, project your bullshit onto me.”
Spinning on my heel, I make it to the door before he starts to speak.
“I…”
I still at the sound of his voice. I wait for him to say something more, to utter words that will make me stay, but after a long moment of silence, I walk out the door.
Time for me to go home.
Thane’s going to have to let me leave.
CHAPTER 13
