“Why are you teasing me?” he ground out.
He leaned forward and kissed me roughly, his lips brushing against mine as his fingers ran through my waves and brought my head toward him.
“I’m not,” I mumbled as I kissed him back.
He tasted and smelled like lazy sex on a Sunday afternoon, and I ran my hands through his hair and held on to him for dear life as he sucked all the air out of me.
“I want you so badly,” he said with a groan as his hands fell to my ass and he cupped my butt cheeks. “I want to fuck you right here, right now, in front of everyone,” he muttered as he sucked on my lower lip. “I want everyone to know that you’re mine and that I’m the only one whose hands and cock will be getting under that short skirt tonight.”
“Xander,” I moaned, turned on by his guttural talk.
My hands flew to the front of his pants and squeezed his already-hard cock. I was about to unzip his pants when something inside of me snapped, and I took a step back and pushed him off of me.
“No, stop,” I gasped, wiping my lips in haste. “We can’t do this.”
“What?” he groaned, his eyes dark with desire.
“You can’t keep playing hot and cold with me, and I can’t keep letting you. I don’t know what’s going on, but the fact of the matter is, I’m not your plaything. I’m not going to fuck you whenever you want me to. We hooked up last week, and you regretted it so much that you proposed to my sister. Well, you know what, Xander? You can go and fuck her. I’m done. I’m over this. You can just leave me alone, okay?”
He looked shocked at my outburst. It was as if he finally understood that I was not cool with this whole sordid mess. It was as if his cock had just figured out that he couldn’t just play around inside of me whenever he wanted. I was not going to be that girl. Not with him.
He was about to say something when Aiden and Alice came out of the bar.
“There you are.” Alice ran over to me, and she looked furious.
“Everything okay?” I asked her quietly.
“Your brother is an asshole. End of story,” she muttered and looked away.
“You guys need to leave now,” I said loudly and glared at them both. “And when I saynow, I mean that if you aren’t gone from this street in thirty seconds or less, I will scream so loud that the police will come running and arrest you both.”
“Liv—” Aiden started to say something and then stopped himself. “I’m sorry.”
He sighed, and I just shook my head.
“It’s too little, too late.” I took a deep breath and looked at Xander as I spoke. “You can’t treat me like this anymore. I’m not going to take it. Just go home and leave us alone.”
I turned around and grabbed Alice’s arm, and we walked back into the club, both of us knowing that our fun girls’ night out had already been ruined, but neither one of us wanting to admit it and go back home.
CHAPTER TWELVE
“Welcome home.” Scott opened the front door as we arrived back at the house a few hours later.
“Yeah, thanks,” I muttered and brushed past him, not in the mood for small talk.
“I’m going to hop in the shower. Is that okay, Liv?” Alice asked me softly.
I nodded. “Yeah, I’m going to grab some water and go out to the rocking chair in the backyard. I’ll be up in a bit.”
“Okay.” She nodded.
I watched as Scott escorted her down the hallway. I sighed and then walked to the kitchen and looked through the fridge for some food. I grabbed a bottle of water and some string cheese and headed out to the backyard to rock my bad mood away. The sky was beautiful tonight, almost majestic in its deep, velvety blackness. I stared at the twinkling stars and sat back, enjoying the cool breeze that caressed my face.
“So, you made it home safely, I see.”
Xander’s deep voice interrupted my thoughts, and I groaned out loud.
“You again.” I turned to look at him and almost groaned again. He was bare-chested again and just wearing his boxers. “What do you want?”
