He was angry. Great, ‘cause I didn’t care.
I wasn’t going to sit back and wait until kingdom come to enjoy my sexuality. “I’m twenty-two, about to turn twenty-three soon. It is a prime age to experience, experiment or what of it.” I raised my brow, goading him. “And your point is what exactly?”
“My point?” He charged towards me, pushing me backwards until my butt cheeks hit the edge of my desk. “My point, Stella?” he gritted out. “Had I known that you were going to ‘experiment’ with the likes of Clive Barrington, I wouldn’t have granted your wish.” His heated eyes dropped lower, noting the erratic pulse in my throat as his eyes slid lower, watching my br**sts rise and fall in quick succession. “Experiment with me.”
No. Not after what I’d witnessed with that redhead. “Not with you.” I shook my head.
“Decline me again.”
I already did. “I don’t want you, Cal. Please stop this.”
He pressed his hips against mine, making me feel his epically solid state. I almost convulsed at the feel of him this close to me. It certainly muddled my brain function.
My breath caught when I felt his thumb making circles on my belly button at the same time that his hot breath in my ear sent tingles everywhere. “Are you quite sure?”
Callum was pressing his hardness directly above my pu**y and I was panting, excited and yet, needing to prove a point that I wasn’t like that redhead on his dining table.
“Still am.”
He caged me with his body, unyielding. “How many men have you had since me, Stella?”
Chapter 13
Callum
“Still am.”
Her breath caught as I softly blew air on her ear, as I let my bottom lip caress the side of her neck. The weakening woman slightly shook, like an unbidden prey; she anticipated my attack, to be wholly consumed by me, by my touch.
Clive Barrington.
The name alone brought bitter taste on my tongue. He lured Zara once and I wasn’t going to let him do the same thing with Stella.
Two weeks.
It took everything in me not to contact her because I was busy trying to convince myself that she was young, and thus needed to figure out her feelings for Derek. I was also constantly reminding myself that had her feelings changed; she was going to come to me. How wrong was I? Apparently, I was off by a long shot. “How many men have you had since me, Stella?”
It was a crass question, but if she was prancing around town with Barrington, which could mean only one thing… that she got a healthy dose of exploration herself.
“Enlighten me, Callum. How many have you had since me? Then you might just get what you’re demanding from me.”
My nose flared. “What you witnessed, was the only time.” Not that I wasn’t interested it about sex because I surely was, the problem was the woman I had to do it with. The redhead was a test I had to go through, to convince myself that I wasn’t losing my manhood over a virgin who no longer wanted, or needed me. It was to show that I was in control.
When things started heating up, I was grateful that I still had it in me, but all those monumental emotions eroded the second my gaze caught hers.
Until then, I was convinced that Stella didn’t fancy me, but when she came to visit in my home, though her excuse was plausible, for some reason, my gut feeling was telling me that there was more to it, that Stella was lying about the real reason why she came to see me that night.
When I came after her and along with that expected strained goodbye, I knew I should let her go and let her live her life, like how she planned it to be.
It thought it then that was me being all magnanimous, because I was not one to back down when I was being challenged by a woman. In fact, I thrived on the chase…but then life handed me Stella von Berg, and now I know nothing will ever be the same again.
Reluctant she may be, but I knew her body was responding to me. My problem now was how to grapple the situation without alarming her.
But either way, I wasn’t leaving this office building without a successful result.
So, here we were, having a staring throw down.
Stormy gray eyes flashed at me. They were so clear, that the gold around her pupil burned brighter. “Don’t tell me you never had the urge before that night. I won’t believe you!” Stella threw accusingly at me. Her will to fight me was admirable, but a wise person should know the most important thing when going in for a fight, and that is always know your opponent. Never take on someone who you could never win over.
At this point, I was willing to bet everything to get her. Anything, as long as it wasn’t falling in love.
But apart from that one solid condition, everything else was on the table, and I was willing to negotiate. After Zara, I wasn’t willing to break my six-week relationship mantra. But times were changing and I needed to re-strategize if I wanted a chance with her. If I hadn’t known better, she possibly outsmarted me, because I was like an addict, always craving her.
Had this happened to another woman, I could easily think that she had orchestrated to trap me efficiently, but this was Stella… still, I was somewhat skeptical and a tad bitter that she was making me break my well-oriented plans. “Oh, I had, trust me. But you…” I shook my head. “You’re a clever woman.” My forefinger reached out and traced the valley of her br**sts, heatedly and repeatedly as our eyes sparred war with each other. “You left me wanting, Stella. It was the oldest trick in the book, but it still works.”
“Trust me, it was never like that.” She licked her lips, quivering. Her pebbled ni**les outlined her dress shirt. “We exchanged favors. What you’re dealing with now is your own business. It’s your problem, not mine.”
Feisty, wasn’t she? I was seeing the real woman emerge amidst the calm poised façade she always portrayed, and I wanted it out.
True, she was right. This was my problem, but now I was bringing this problem to the surface, thus making it our problem. “You tricked me. That's my f**king problem!” I blazed on, accusing.
Stella gasp, looking offended. “Me? What have I done now?” she searched my eyes. “All because of sex? You’re blaming it all on me? If I recalled correctly, you were the one who kept seeking me out after we did it the first time. You brought it upon yourself.”
How right she was, but I wasn’t going to give her the satisfaction.
I gave her a cutting glance, before I responded to her. “You enticed me with your virgin pu**y. Now every god damn pu**y is too f**king used for my taste because I just want yours.”