Page 25 of Reckless Hate

She adjusted her damp hair over the t-shirt before turning back and facing him. “I’ll have these clothes laundered and sent to your housing unit.”

He didn’t say anything. His eyes were burning with such intensity that she felt a shiver run through her.

She didn’t know what had gotten into her when she decided to change her clothes in front of him. Maybe it was the challenging look on his face when he had changed his clothes in front of her. She had felt the strong need to challenge him back.

It was the same need she had when they were both children. They kept pushing each other with several dares. Except now, they weren’t children anymore.

“We are not children anymore, Sam.”

She had known that already. But now, having seen his naked body and the burning intensity of his eyes, she was well aware of it.

The air felt strangely thick in the changing room. Ignoring the charged awareness of his gaze, she looked at him.

“Thanks.”

She turned away and walked out of the men’s changing area. Until she stepped out, she felt his burning gaze on her.

Even as she walked back to her housing unit, her mind kept replaying the men’s shower room encounter. Even though she was fully clothes, her skin was covered in goosebumps. She shivered as she recalled the heat inside Ved’s eyes.

Was it caused purely because of hatred?

She was nearing her apartment, still thinking about her enemy when she came across a group of girls blocking her way.

It was Keya Gupta. Again.

“Stay away from Ved!” the girl warned. “He is my boyfriend!”

Samantha wasn’t in the mood to tackle jealous girls. She had to call Maria to check on Sohan. And the recent encounter with her former best friend turned enemy left her strangely shaken.

Ignoring the girl, she stepped around the group.

“Ved hates you!” the girl shouted. “He is going to get you kicked out of Simha!”

Samantha continued to her apartment.

He can try all he wants, but I will not give in.

CHAPTER 12

Ved had to stay longer in the shower area to pull himself together.

He was painfully aroused.

What the fuck just happened?

One minute he was challenging Samantha to prove that he could embarrass her, and the next moment she not only met his challenge, she blew his mind away.

He had seen a lot of naked girls, but he couldn’t recall even a single one right then. But the slope of Samantha’s naked back with smooth, rounded buttocks would be forever branded inside his brain. In the brief moment, he also noticed that she wore a thin gold waist chain. It had taken every bit of control to not grab her and turn her towards him so he could feast his eyes on the rest of her body.

Fuck!

Every encounter and moment in her presence was driving him further to the edge. Although he was the one who seemingly held an upper hand from the outside, it was her who was making him lose his mind.

He gritted his teeth.

I have to get her out.

Out of Simha and also out of my damn mind.

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