Bullied Cinderella - Hollie Hutchins Page 0,55

in everything, I couldn’t be sure how loud we might have been. When everything seemed to remain quiet and still, I finally pulled out of her and removed the panties from her mouth. But I kept her arms tied so she would be at my mercy a little longer, and I could run my hands freely up and down her body.

She laughed a little and smiled up at me. “They’re very deep sleepers,” she said, cutting her eyes to the wall behind her.

I brought my attention to what she was staring at, and it was only then that I noticed the marks on the wall just behind the posts of her headboard. “Was that from tonight?” I asked in surprise.

“Well, I don’t have any other men sneaking in through my bedroom window.”

I chuckled before finally releasing her hands and lowering myself beside her. We were quiet for a long time there in the darkness as I glided my fingers around her chest. I loved that she didn’t rush to cover up, and she didn’t even chastise me for breaking in. We could finally just accept this and lay there together quietly.

“So much for it never happening again,” she huffed finally, but she didn’t seem too sorry about it. She stared up at me intently. “Did you mean what you said?”

“When?”

“When you first climbed into my bed...That you can’t stop thinking about me,” she answered quietly.

“You already knew that.”

“But...did you mean you can’t stop thinking about this...as in what we just did. The creek. The woods. Or did you mean...me? As in really thinking about me...even outside of sex.”

I lowered my lips to hers for a deep, soft kiss. “All of it,” I answered. “All of it and all of you...ever since you first scolded me in the laundry room all that time ago. I was just too stupid to realize why I was so taken by you then. I mistook it for pure hatred.”

“I definitely hated you then,” she stated blankly.

“To be fair I’m sure there was some of that mixed in on my part too.” I smiled and kissed her again. “It’s very hard to want something you can’t have so badly. It’ll drive you mad and send you storming out of your bedroom in the middle of the night to break through windows.”

She rolled over to her stomach and looked at me with a devilish spark in her eyes. Her long dark wavy hair cascaded around her and her lips curled with the most perfect grin. “Did it ever occur to you to just try being nice to me? Charm and romance me a little? We could have been enjoying more of this months ago if you hadn’t made it so damn hard for me to stomach you.”

I kissed her forehead but settled back against the pillow with a grim expression. “No, there’s more to it than that.”

She propped her cheek against her hand and waited for me to explain. Her eyes filled with concern and dread with each passing second of silence, but I hated to remind her of just how complicated everything was. Not while, for once, it finally seemed so damn simple. But I knew that feeling only lasted while we were in that bed. It was fleeting, and soon we’d have to face reality.

“Family is very important to me,” I explained. “I know you might not think much of my mother, or Dario, or Jorge...or me, even. But I was raised with the sense of obligation to them...above everything else. Not just them, but to our family’s honor.”

“And I’m just a lowly servant...Always will be. No matter how much money we have,” she replied sarcastically, but she knowingly accepted it as fact.

“I don’t agree with it, but it’s how things work. My mother...she just won’t ever approve.”

Her eyes dropped and she looked away, as if I had just cinched a flickering flame that was starting to grow. I ran my fingers along her chin and pulled her gaze back to mine. “Hey, it’s not like it’s stopped me this far. Might have held me back a little, but you’re still calling out to me in the middle of the night like a siren...And so far, it's taken everything in me to resist. Those defenses are apparently getting weaker...because here I am.”

With a faint smile, she parted her lips for a gentle kiss. We stayed like that for as long as we could, but as sunrise grew closer, we both knew I had to go