Page 115 of Aching for His Discretion

“I... I’ll be right back,” I said, immediately regretting it as I stood and walked to the bathroom. I toyed with my necklace on the way and felt his eyes on me as I walked.

Stepping into the bathroom, I let out a breath.My plan was failing. My solid plan of taking things slow was starting to fail. I couldn’t keep up.

I wanted to give myself to him. I felt myselfachingto do so, but I felt torn for what he’d put me through, the mental trauma and manipulation. But it was almost as if my brain wanted to throw it away and submit to him, give everything to him for the future we could possibly have, move back to New York, get married, have his kids…God, I felt so overwhelmed.

I had no clue what I was supposed to say in response. Not when one part of me wanted to run for the hills, and the other wanted to bend over the table for him after thinking about his truthful and almost sexy redemption speech.

Where are your morals, Teegan? What happened to your self-control?

Deciding not to dwell much and leave him outside pondering, I left the bathroom only to be face to face with our waiter. I smiled as politely as I could as I tried to step aside.

“Excuse me,” I said, not even questioning why he was outside of the women’s bathroom.

As I walked, I felt him grab my hand, and I looked over at him cautiously.

“Doesn’t look like your boyfriend seems very interested in you tonight.”

My eyes went wide as he ran his eyes over my figure. I immediately felt disgusted as I pulled away, and he let out a low laugh as he followed me closely.

“He saw the way I was looking at you…And he said absolutely nothing. If you were mine, I wouldn’t let that slide. You’re so fucking beautiful,” he muttered.

I did my best to ignore him as we entered the dining hall.

Memories of Alec and his advances in the past began to surface, but I did my best to push them away before the inevitable tears surfaced.

As I approached our table, I stopped in my tracks as Levi was no longer sitting there.Where did he go?

My heart raced as the waiter shamelessly ran his hand over my shoulder in the middle of the restaurant. However, no one’s eyes were on us.

“See, he’s not even here anymore. Any guy would be fucking lucky to have you.”

“Get your hands off of me,” I said angrily as tears wanted to escape my eyes. I didn’t want to panic as we were in public, and he wouldn’t be able to do much, but he felt like a threat nonetheless.

He scoffed cockily, his hand lightly grazing my lower back. “Or what? Your little boyfriend surely isn’t going to save you—” hebegan, and I jumped as my hands flew to cover my mouth as he was ripped away from me.

Turning around, I watched Levi grab the waiter, slamming him onto an empty table behind us. From sheer force, the table broke, and the man let out a cry as he lay over the broken pieces of wood and glass.

The entire restaurant went silent, and all that you could hear was the sound of the waiter groaning in pain and Levi’s heavy breaths.

All of a sudden, Levi lowered himself to the ground and punched him several times in the face and on the chest.

I couldn’t move. The entire restaurant erupted into a panic, but no one stopped him. He was enraged and had a murderous aura that made me feel fearful.

As he punched the man, his veins began to show, and his hair became disheveled. Sweat beads formed on his head, and his knuckles began to redden, the skin threatening to tear.

Once the waiter became practically unrecognizable, Levi sat back on his knees and rested his hands on his thighs as he continued to breathe deeply.

After a moment, he stood up and leaned his head back, as if relief had washed over him—almost as if this wastherapeuticfor him.

My heart raced as I was petrified… for two reasons.

Reason number 1:Levi just practically murdered a man in front of me and about seventy-five other people...

He looked over at me slowly, his murderous eyes still present as they held a possessive gaze over me. I felt frozen in place. I felt as though I couldn’t move even if I wanted to. He began approaching me, and I gulped softly as I looked up at him in complete shock.

Andreason number 2:My panties… were basically soaked as I watched him.

Chapter forty-nine

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