My confidence began to crumble as the house came into view. What I had done had begun to dawn on me. I had kissed my bodyguard. Mickey’s leash fell from my hand as my hand flew to my mouth. I had kissed Angelo Barone! Aloof, ferocious, grumpy, unfriendly, arrogant Angelo.
I had lost my mind. There was no doubt about it now—I had completely gone insane.
“Sienna?”
I spun around, my heart slamming painfully against my rib cage. Oh, my God. My mother. If she knew …
“Are you all right?” she asked, taking a step towards me.
Automatically, I took one away from her. “I’m fine.”
I could tell from her face she didn’t believe me ... and I didn’t believe myself either.
Chapter 24
Angelo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtvmTu4zAMg
-She drives me crazy-
I stood at the foot of the stairs and watched as she descended in an electric blue dress that hung off her shoulders. It was long and would have been demure if not for the slit that ran all the way to the middle of her thigh, exposing her silky-smooth skin … that I had touched.
It took everything I had not to stare at the tantalizing picture. For she was as alluring as a siren singing on a rock and I was one of those hapless sailors. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t stop myself from the lure of her deathly call. It felt as if there were termites in my brain, day and night, eating relentlessly.
A week had passed since the ‘incident’ by the pond, but it remained as fresh in my mind as if it’d happened yesterday. Every second of it had been branded into my brain. The feel of her sun-warmed skin, the intoxicating taste of her soft mouth. The way she had tightly jerked those delectable curves against my dick.
She wanted it. Hell, did she want it.
She was as desperate to scratch her itch as I was. I knew she was trouble from the first moment I laid eyes on her, but it shocked me how much I wanted to fuck her. It was unbelievable. I forgot where I was, who she was, who I was. Fuck, let’s call it what it was—I lost control of myself. If we had been anywhere more private, I couldn’t have stopped myself. As it was it took everything I had to pull away. And walk away.
I’d gone through what happened second by second because I just couldn’t understand how I’d gotten myself into such a position. Had it just been my annoyance at her inability to defend herself that had spurred a crazed need in me to rile her up, to get her out of her damn shell of helplessness? But when I had poked what I assumed was a cub, a lioness had awakened, attacked me, and showed me she was ready to mate.
Being the spoilt girl she was, she probably thought it was fun to taunt the bodyguard. See how much she could twist him around her little finger. She had no idea what kind of danger she was flirting with. And I wasn’t even referring to her father. I wasn’t a man for twisting.
Plus, I came with problems. Big problems.
After that episode though, she must have come to her senses enough to realize she’d crossed a very serious line. Clearly, she was aware of my presence but she pretended like I didn’t exist. Which was a great relief because I knew now I couldn’t completely trust myself to stop if she decided to pull another crazy stunt.
Thankfully, she also hadn’t left the house so there was no need for me to escort her as closely as I would have had to, were we not within the safety of the mansion grounds.
Now, as she came closer to the bottom of the stairs, I could feel her eyes on me, so I forced myself to turn away and stare straight ahead at nothing. I couldn’t wipe the picture of her in her decently indecent dress out of my mind, but I could ignore it and focus on my job.
Her mother came out of one of the living rooms and called out to her.
After being fussed over by her mother, Sienna moved towards the entrance and I followed closely behind her.
Outside, he was waiting inside his SUV. He jumped down from the driver’s seat and came over to her.
I waited to confirm that she got in safely before I would follow them in a different vehicle.
“You look beautiful,”’ he murmured, and pulled her into an embrace. She stood stiffly inside his arms while he placed a kiss on either side of her cheek.
I looked away then with my stomach clenching.
“Who is this?” he asked with a sour note in his voice.
I knew instantly he was going to be a pain in the ass.
“My bodyguard,” she replied, and began to walk towards the car, but he caught her hand as she headed to the front seat, and led her to the back instead.