Page 62 of Tempting the President
Who knew Kellion Argyros, the Afxisi’s ultimate playboy, could be so ridiculously nice?
“Aria?” Kellion’s hands shook as he cupped my face.
My eyes blurred even more at the gentleness of his voice, the same time the world just kept getting brighter and brighter.
I thought of Ashton, of how ridiculously nice he had been as well. Even knowing that our parents hadn’t been able to love him the way they should, he had never stopped hoping, had never stopped loving them.
My heart broke.
It broke and broke, the more I thought about just hownicethey both were, these men in my life – one from the past, another whose place in my future was uncertain.
“Say something,” he whispered. Again, that voice. Plea and temptation. And of course it reached me. My heart. My soul.
“You...did...not...hurt...me.”
Kellion’s eyes were wide as he watched my lips move and listened to me speak.
“You...made...me...cry...because...” I touched my own trembling lips so he would see. So he would know. “You...make...me...smile.” The tears started to fall, but I had never seen so clearly. So vividly. I touched his cheek. “I...want...to...make...you—-”
“Aria.” His voice broke, as if he couldn’t believe he deserved to hear me say such things.
Stupid, silly, stubborn biker.
This time, I was the one to cup his face. “Kellion.” I strove for a voice both clear and determined so he would know I meant what I was going to say. “This...time...I want...to...make...you...smile.”
For a long moment, we could only look at each other. And then slowly, he brought my hand to his lips, his mouth warm as it pressed against my palm. I could feel his lips curve against my skin.
Oh.
“You already do.” A ragged voice, exposing his greatest fears. “God help me, but you always do.”
Before I could answer, Bobby was knocking on the door. “Sorry to interrupt you two lovebirds, but I need this room now.”
Chapter Nine
Dear Ashton,
I’m sorry for deliberately trying to make you cry before.
Well, okay, I’m not really. It’s just that you’re so cute when you cry, you know? That’s all it was. Because you were soooo cute. And you are still and will always be the cutest baby brother in the whole world.
Love, Your Big Sis
“TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED. All of it.”
After Bobby had kicked us out of the club’s office, Kellion had immediately taken me to the closest place with a chair and a table. In this case, that was the cafeteria.
Like the rest of the university, the cafeteria was elegantly designed, resembling a hotel lobby more than anything else. Supposedly, it was to give students an environment most conducive to learning, but knowing how the Christopoulos were, I had a feeling it was really just because the Greek family who owned the university didn’t care to let their heirs have lessons in any place that was less than luxurious.
Even though we occupied one of the tables at the back, all eyes were still on us. Reminded yet again of how we were everyone’s focus, I tried getting off Kellion’s lap, but he shook his head. “Sorry,terataki,but I don’t think I’m going to let you go anytime soon.”
I frowned at him in exasperation.Be serious.
His lips twisted. “I feel like if I do, you might change your mind about me and stop talking to me.”
My chest tightened at his words. God. Who knew bikers as stubborn and as silly as Kellion Argyros actually existed? It had to be a crime. How could someone as hot as he was believe that a girl would be capable of resisting him? We couldtrybut in the end, the result was inevitable.
Whoever Kellion wanted, hewouldhave.
