Snap—
Crack—
Snap—
I dodged. Springing sideways, evading her wild strikes, and before I knew it, I was driven outside the bathroom.
The door slammed in my face with a thunderous boom.
FUCK!
“Oh, and your kiss, Crowther,”she yelled with a parting shot,“was godsdamned awful!”
I slammed my fist onto the wall. Pain jarred through my fingers. What the fuck was this? My kiss was awful?
Taunting me with the promise of sinking into one another, putting up with mygodsdamned awfulkisses, so she could teach me a lesson like a naughty schoolboy by denying me? Putting me in my place?
Darkness from my quarters folded around me, and the change to a cooler temperature prickled my flesh.
Is she seriously going to get off using the showerhead?
Yet, I couldn’t hear raining water.
Uncertainty tightened my chest.
Was she in there laughing at my desperation and stupidity for falling for her tricks?
My wet feet dampened the carpet as I paced in front of the door, rubbing the ache from my throbbing ass while I debated what to do.
Dress and leave?
Roar back at her?
Slam my fist against the wall some more like an asshole?
The soap.
The soap had fallen from my grip when I discovered she was in the bathroom watching me while I jerked off. And she’d swept all her girly products from the vanity.
They were lying on the floor on their sides. I was pretty sure one cap had come off and white goopy shit was leaking from it.
What if she slips on the soap or facial gunk and smacks her head on the stone floor?
This was a health and safety issue for fucking sure.
I should have left it alone, but it would seem I was a masochist for her personal brand of pain and humiliation.
I braced myself internally for Nelle’s mocking laugh and indifferent attitude. No doubt chuckling to herself at how easily I’d fallen for her ruse. She’d probably gone straight for the mouthwash and was sterilizing my terrible kiss away.
The door swung silently open. I took one step inside the room, swirling with steam and dripping with condensation, and froze mid-step.
My jaw slackened, and what was about to spill from my mouth evaporated.
Wonder and warmth filled my chest.
Everything she’d just said and done was undone in an instant.
Every cruel word she’d spat at me.
