A Game Of Temptation

LAURA

“Why wasn’t I invited to this party?”

I turned my head and found Jack strolling towards us, a bright smile on his face. He was wearing khaki shorts and a button down shirt, the whole beach look. Balery quickly created space for him and he dropped down on the bench next to her leg.

“It’s a girls only party,” I told him. “You’re only getting away with it because you’re the best friend’s husband.”

“That, I am.” He grinned, then leaned down and kissed his wife.

Letting out a sigh of content, I closed my eyes and laid my head back on the bed. Those two were going to be kissing for a long time. Might as well give them sone privacy by showing them that I wasn’t watching.

Balery wasn’t a big fan of PDA, but Jack was. He could barely keep his hands off of her and she, in turn, loved every bit of his affection. She’d probably decided to suck it up when she finally realised that she couldn’t eat her cake and have it.

“You lovebirds are going to make us singles start feeling like shit.” A voice hollered and from the sound of it, they were coming in this direction.

My eyes popped open and the sight that welcomed me sent my fragile heart racing.

Alex and Drew were coming towards us, both dressed in sweats and polo shirts, but my hungry eyes were solely fixed on Alex. He was still wearing his clothes from this morning. Sexy grey sweatpants that hinted at, more than covered his bulge, and that muscle hugging white shirt. The short sleeves bared his hands and had his tattoos standing out proud under the sunlight.

He stalked towards us, all hard angles, golden skin, and an amazing physique. The man looked like a greek god. Like a beautifully sculpted statue come to life.

There was an empty bed next to mine, and that was the one he decided to sit on. He didn’t look at me once as he plopped down on the bed and for a moment, I thought that he was ignoring me, but the minute he finished speaking to either Drew or Jack-I wasn’t sure, I didn’t look-he turned to me.

He eyes did a slow perusal of my body, taking his time.

Green eyes dragged down my body, stopping and flaring slightly when they reached my boobs. He ran his hands down the valley between my breasts-he could see it because the piece had a dip in the middle-and then finally, his eyes continued on their journey. He took one more stop at my hips, probably imagining getting the panties off me, before he reached my legs.

When his eyes climbed back up to mine, they were blazing with barely restrained lust.

I squirmed under the heat of his gaze, wanting to climb him so much in that moment that it was all I could think about. He barely took his eyes off me even when he engaged in conversations with his friends and I was pretty sure he did it on purpose because his eyes on me, made it unable for me to think about anything else and if that had been his aim, then he’d succeeded.

“…it’s so crazy.” The end of a statement reached my ears.

“Wow. Small world,” Bales smiled and turned to me. “Is that true, Laura?”

I blinked. What the hell were they talking about?

My blank expression clearly showed that I hadn’t been paying attention to them even if I was sitting right there, and they knew it. It was all Alex’s fault for distracting me so thoroughly with his eyes. He wasn’t even trying to be discreet about staring at me.

Was this my curse for wishing that the men who approached me were more confident?

“I-I’m sorry, I zoned off for a minute there.” I murmured, shame making it hard for me to lie properly. “What were you talking about?”

The look Balery gave me had me wishing for the ground to open up and swallow me. She knew. She knew what had me distracted.

Shit.

My cheeks flamed and I pressed farther down on the bed, wanting nothing more than to disappear.

“Drew here was telling us that he got gifts for his ex from your shop one time.” Balery informed me.

I shifted sightly as if that could help my situation, then cleared my throat just to make sure that my voice didn’t come out all breathy. “Oh, yeah. I didnt know him at the time though.”

Jesus. What was that?

Of course I hadn’t known him at the time. We’d met just yesterday. Why on earth did I say that?

I groaned silently when Balery wiggled her brows at me knowingly and it was all I could do to not flip her off. I settled for doing it internally. However, when I looked back at Alex and saw the smug smirk on his lips, I didn’t hesitate to flip him off.

Thankfully, Drew and Jack were locked in a conversation, so they didn’t see it.

Sitting beside him was torture. He was just so big and handsome and so fucking sexy with that slight scowl and all I wanted to do was to climb on top of him and ride him until we both physically couldn’t anymore, but I never broke my one-night only rule, and I wasnt planning on starting with him.

Rising up from the bed, I said, “I’m retiring early. Y’all enjoy the sun.”

“Now that’s just mean.” Drew jerked his thumb over his shoulder. “Sun’s starting to go down.”

I grinned at him as I tied my cover up over my panties, giving Bales a small wave before walking away. I might have put an extra sway in my hips simply because I knew that Alex was most definetly watching me.

If he was going to make my decision to not have sex with him anymore so hard for me, then I was going to make it equally hard for him.

I didn’t slack.

Colour me surprised when I heard heavy footsteps following behind me as I climbed up the stairs. When i turned and saw it was Alex, I turned back around and resumed by ascent, not stopping for a bit even when I was in front of my door.

“Stop avoiding me.”

I swivelled around, so fast and unexpected, his eyes flared a little. He probably hadn’t expected me to acknowledge him and to be honest, I had not wanted to. Maybe it was the pent up lust or the embarrassment he’d caused me outside, but I was suddenly in the mood to argue.

“Is leaving me alone too much to ask?” I snapped, my boobs rising and falling fast with my quick breaths. His eyes fell to them and my nipples puckered into two sharp points right in front of him.

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That didn’t mean anything. The fact that my body wanted him didn’t mean that I did.

“I would if you actually meant it.” He said in that same calm voice, not even the least bit riled up by my obvious display of anger.

I wanted to piss him off. I wanted him to lose his cool and snap back at me so that I’d yell at him more.

“I do mean it, you stubborn ass,” I seethed, angry all of a sudden. Why couldn’t he just leave me the fuck alone? “What the hell is your-”

He closed the space between us in two quick steps that I didnt see coming and before I knew it, he had my back to the wall and his lips on my neck.

Asshole move.

Total asshole move.

My neck was my weak spot. There was no way I could fight him off when he had his lips on my neck and he probably knew that, which was why he’d targeted it.

Shit.

I fought still, trying to hold on to my already weak grip on control even as it slipped farther out of my grasp with every second that passed. It slipped even more when he opened his mouth and left wet kisses on my neck, swirling his tongue in a circle on each spot he kissed.

“Tell me you dont want this, Laura.” He said intro my neck as he continued his assault. “Say it again and maybe I’ll believe you this time.”

“I-”

I hissed in both pain and pleasure when he bit softly on my pulse point, and then moaned in pleasure when he licked on the spot, kissing it and soothing the pain.

God, he was such an asshole.

How could she resist him when he fought so dirty?

“Invite me into your room, Laura.” He whispered, the words soft and full of temptation. He sounded a lot like the devil in that moment, she wanted to open her eyes just to see if he’d developed horns.

“No,” she forced out no matter how hard it was to say it.

It hurt me to deny him-her nipples ached from the lack of attention-but I had no other choice. It was either deny him or fuck him for the second time and there was no way that was happening.

A rule was a rule.

“Please,” He begged as he dragged his lips from my neck to my chest, leaving open mouthed kisses as he went, and my legs almost gave out at the sound of him begging.

Did he really want me that bad?

Well, I wanted him too, but it couldn’t happen.

It just couldnt happen.

I shoved my fingers into his hair and tried to use the grip to pull his head down to my breasts since he was being so slow, but he deliberately fought against it, focusing on kissing my chest instead.

“Suck on my nipples, Alex,” I was embarrassingly close to begging.

A shudder moved through his body. “I will when you let me in.”

Frustrated, I stomped my feet, and the movement caused his lips to dislodge from my chest.

He rose to his full height, eyes blazing as he ran his knuckles down my face, caressing my cheeks softly, before grazing the side of my lips with his thumb. They parted for him. “Just let me in, Laura. I’ll make it so good for you, you know that.”

I did. I did know that.

And that was the only reason I was considering letting him into my room right now, but we werent going to have sex. Of course, I wasnt going to tell him that. He could give me an orgasm without getting in me-maybe even more.

I wasnt happy over the fact that he was breaking me, but knowing that I was going to get an orgasm-or two-out of it, was enough to improve my mood.

Since Alex had decided to fight dirty, then I was going to do the same.

Just as he was about to turn and walk away, probably mistaking my delay for denial, I caught his arm. He stopped and turned to me with a brow raised, waiting for me to speak.

I rolled my eyes and tugged him into the room with me. “Come on.”