Heartbreak Lover (Broken Hearts Academy #2) - C.R. Jane Page 0,17
I felt him start to harden behind me at my touch.
“You look like pure sin wrapped in an angelic package,” he murmured harshly into my ear, his hot breath gusting over the side of my face as his lips grazed the outer shell of my ear as he spoke. Everything else around us, the music and the drunken laughter and shouting…it all faded away at his touch. My pulse raced, and my lips parted as I let out panting breaths.
His fingers tightened, digging into my hips, and unlike the fear I felt when Landry had done almost the same thing, his possessive hold just filled me with lust. “I’ve given you time, little angel. I’ve let you have your fun. But I’m done waiting. I’m coming to collect.”
His words were confusing…and hot as he moved seductively with me to a song all about sex and desire.
I probably should have been looking for Landry. I probably should have pushed him away.
I probably should have done a lot of things.
But I just moved with him.
His long fingers fanned out across my hips and lower stomach, pressing me more firmly into his body, molding me to him. His large biceps caged my arms, and he brushed his nose down the side of my neck. I remembered his bite at the hockey game, a bruise that I had to cover in order to wear this dress, and crazily craved more.
He turned me around, and I got a better look at him. He was wearing a midnight blue Henley, unbuttoned at the top, showing off the indents of his perfect chest. A chest that tasted delicious, I drunkenly reminded myself. The color of his shirt accentuated his beautiful eyes. And his black jeans and his black boots accentuated everything else.
I groaned inwardly at how good he looked.
Or at least, I thought I said it silently until he gave me a smug look.
He looked dangerous and wild, and I needed someone to remind me why this was such a bad idea. He leaned forward to kiss me, and then, over his shoulder, I saw Caiden coming down the stairs, his gaze also scanning the crowd as if he was looking for someone…just like his brother.
Freezing, I came to my senses and pushed Jackson away. Surprise was written all over his face, he obviously thought he had me. But there was no better reminder of why Jackson and I couldn’t be together than the sight of Caiden.
Ducking away from Jackson, who called out after me, I weaved my way through the crowd, staying on the opposite side of the room from Caiden.
Once at the entryway, I sneaked a look back at a furious-looking Jackson and a confused-looking Lane, and then I booked it up the stairs.
The first floor was packed even more than when we’d first arrived, and I felt like a panic attack was coming on as people bumped me and touched me as I passed by. Seeing a gap by the stairs that led to the second floor, I stumbled up them, thinking I could recover in the bathroom.
There were couples making out in the long hallway, and in one of the rooms I tried, there was an actual orgy happening with three girls and a very happy member of the hockey team, whose face would be scarred in my memory for forever after what I’d seen.
I finally found a blissfully empty bathroom, and I slammed the door, locking it behind me as I took deep breaths, trying to calm down.
What was I doing? I wanted to claw my insides out, get a new heart that wouldn’t be as defective as the one currently residing in my chest. I beat on my chest savagely, trying to knock some sense into me.
I wanted to cry. Because it felt so hopeless to think I might never be done with this wild, destructive thing between Jackson and I.
A few more deep breaths, and I’d decided to find Lane and Landry and tell them I was going to go. Crowds weren’t my thing, and combined with Landry, Jackson…and Caiden, it was too much.
I slipped out into the hallway, bypassing a couple that was actually having sex against the wall, and took a step down the first step.
I heard footsteps suddenly behind me, and before I could turn my head to look, a pair of hands pushed on my back firmly, sending me hurtling down the stairs with a wide, silent scream on my lips.