I can’t believe he was inside me yesterday. He pushed me to the table and touched me and fucked me and –
No.
I swallow the desire that bursts to the surface every time I recall what happened. Stop thinking about it. Just stop.
Huffing, I stride in Aiden and Elsa’s direction to continue my mission, but he places a hand on my arm, stopping me in my tracks.
“This is one of the bitch moments that make me retaliate, Silver.” His voice is still calm, but the fact he’s calling me by my name means he’s either pissed off or annoyed. Or both.
“Well, I don’t care what ticks you off, Cole.” I wiggle away from him because his touch makes me feel things I shouldn’t — even through my jacket and shirt. I clutch my hip and glare him down. “Besides, Aiden is my fiancé.”
He narrows his eyes but soon schools his expression. “So what? It’s not like you’ll marry him.”
“What makes you think I won’t?”
“Are you blind?” He steps slightly behind me so both of us are watching the scene ahead. His voice drops in volume as his breaths warm my ear. “Can’t you see the way he looks at her? He’ll never give you that, Silver. No one will.”
I tighten my grip on my hip, but it’s not because of Aiden and Elsa — I couldn’t give too shits about them.
It’s the last part of what he said.
No one will.
Why? Am I going to end up alone and sad like Mum? Will I have a daughter and make her worry about me twenty-four seven?
“Break it off.” Cole’s voice brings me out of my stupor.
“What?” I stare back at him.
“The fake engagement. End it.”
“It’s not fake.”
“Sometimes, I think you know me the best, and other times, it’s like you don’t know me at all.” He’s not touching me, but his close proximity is enough to make me aware of every word leaving his mouth, of his scent oozing with cinnamon and lime. Of his body warmth that mixes with mine.
For someone so cold, he’s so warm. I felt it. Hell, I still feel it with every step I take.
No baths or self-care home remedies will be able to remove the feel of him inside me.
“Did you really think I didn’t figure out you and Aiden were doing this whole thing to spite me?”
“W-what?” He knew all along?
“If I’d had the slightest doubt, it was eliminated when I knew you’d saved your virginity for me.”
“I…didn’t.”
“Why are you such a liar, Silver?”
“Why are you?” I elbow him discretely so no one else sees it.
He barely winces before his grin returns to the surface. “If you don’t end it amicably, I’ll step up. Believe me, you don’t want me to step up, Butterfly.”
“You don’t scare me, Cole.”
“But I can do other things to you.”
“In your dreams,” I hiss low enough so no one hears.