Wicked Destiny - By Tiffany Stevens Page 0,22

“What were you doing in there anyway? You had to have been in there for at least an hour.”

“I see Shay didn’t hurt you too bad. Consider yourself lucky.” I walked over to my drawers and began grabbing clothes out, acting as if his presence didn’t bother me.

“She’s nice, but I think I won her over.”

“Good, then go sit on her bed and bother her.” I waved my hand in the air, not noticing I was waving my bra and panties in the air as well. I felt my face turn red.

“I like blue.” He was referring to my under garments.

“Noted, I will let her know.” I began to walk back to my bathroom to change when he suddenly blocked my way.

“You have got to find this exhausting.”

“Find what exhausting?”

“This role you like to play.”

He shrugged. “You know I’m not interested in Shay.”

“Maybe you should be. I’m damaged, Viktor. I’m not someone you can count…” And then he was kissing me.

It’s a good thing my towel was Velcro, because it would have fell to the ground like the clothes I’d been holding. Just like that, everything disappeared. With his hands holding my face, I was frozen. This wasn’t that bad, because I let him take control. He pulled me closer to him as he tangled a hand in my hair, wrapping the other around my back. He tasted like desire itself. I didn’t want him to stop, but then he did.

“I’m sorry. I’ll let you get dressed.” He gave me one final kiss and told me he would see me tonight. When he got to the door and turned to look at me, he had one last thing to say. “Tell Jared to back off. It’s my turn.” He smiled at me and waved as he closed the door.

I felt the world spinning and I allowed myself to fall onto my bed. Really? Did that really just happen? My fingers brushed over my lips to feel if they were still swollen. They were and I couldn’t wrap my head around it. Why now? I had never been caught in something like this. Jared wanted to lay claim to me, but that was nothing new. Viktor came along and all of a sudden he wanted a shot. And we just met. That was the weirdest thing about all of this. Well, just weird really, because now Declan was back. What would happen if I ran into him again? At that moment I made it clear to myself that I did love Declan, but his time was over and he would just have to understand that and respect me by leaving me alone.

On that note, I began to get ready like any other work night. I searched for the best outfit and made sure my hair and make-up was just right. I met Shay again for dinner before work at the local pizza place around the corner and she couldn’t stop talking about Viktor and how crazy he was about me. For once, it was nice hearing about someone decent making a fuss over me. I let her talk the whole time until it was time to go.

“So, what do you think?” Shay was too busy talking about their conversation that she never gave me a chance to talk.

“About what, Viktor? I don’t know, I just met him and it seems like everything is moving too fast. Does it seem like that to you?”

“I know you aren’t asking me advice on men. Sloane, stop closing yourself up.”

“OK, let’s say this ‘thing’ happens to last and he gets a whiff of my gifts. What will he do then, run?”

“You have to take chances, Sloane. You will never know unless you try. Give him a chance and tell Jared to back the hell off.”

“I already did that once and look what happened. The guy left and never came back. Well, figuratively. Speaking of which, you never told me what Declan said.”

“Do you really want to know? I’ll tell you if you do.” Something told me to say no, but I just couldn’t.

“Tell me.”

“He bought a house and he has a girl leaving with him.”

My heart began to fill with ice and I could feel raw emotions flowing through my body as we stopped walking. I couldn’t move or breathe. I knew he went on with his life, but why did it feel like the last bit of my broken heart just shattered? I placed my hand on a shop’s building as if it were