Page 70 of War of Her Heart

“Sebastian,” I said, even though I feared the next words to come out of my mouth.

“Say it,” he said with such hunger in his eyes as he swam closer to me. Like he knew what I was thinking but needed me to admit it to him. To make it real.

“I—” I tried to say something. Anything. But I couldn’t.

He leaned in so there was little room between our lips.

“Tell me to stop. Tell me this isn’t what you want. And I’ll stop.”

I should’ve said stop, I should’ve gotten out the pool and run back to the castle, wherever it was, and finally put an end to this game we had been playing.

But I didn’t want to.

He took my silence and my glance down to his lips as an invitation. He kissed me softly before pulling away to gauge my reaction, but before he could say anything, I grabbed him and our lips came crashing together.

The touch of his lips left me aching for more, and I didn’t want to waste a second of missing his touch. One small kiss had set my body on fire.

He reached down and grabbed my legs to wrap them around his waist. The cool touch of his body on mine reminded me that we were both naked with nothing between our bodies. I pushed my hands into his hair as he kept one hand on my thigh and brought up the other to hold the back of my neck.

There was so much passion in his kiss, like he had been wanting to do this for so long. It escalated quicker than I could wrap my head around it.

His hand on my thigh started inching farther up, and I began to ache between my legs. I brought one hand down ontohis chest, feeling the tight muscles underneath. My body was begging my mind to let go.

To give in to him.

I knew if we went any further that there would be no stopping. No turning back.

I didn’t want to stop. I wanted it all.

But Ihadto stop.

“Stop,” I whispered.

“What?” he said as he pulled his lips from mine and locked eyes with me.

“I-I can’t do this to Calum,” I said as I unwrapped my legs and swam away to get some distance between us.

His eyes darkened at the sound of his name. “You’re still worried about Calum? After all he’s done to you? After you had to be in the room while he fucked his fiancée?”

“He did that to protect me,” I mumbled.

“Oh, so that’s what he’s doing at his very moment? Round two to protect you?”

I scrunched my eyebrows at what he had said. How could he say something so cruel to me? Was it true?

It couldn’t be.

Calum wouldn’t do that to me.

He had such hunger in his eyes for me that it seemed like my rejection made him want to say anything to hurt me.

Like I had just hurt him.

“Fuck you, Sebastian,” I said as I pushed past him and made my way to the shore to find my clothes.

I felt the tears well in my eyes as I got out of the water and walked to where I had dropped my dress.

“Wait, I’m sorry,” Sebastian said from the water. “I didn’t me—”

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