Page 15 of Kneeling for Them
I don’t have anything to say to that.I just want her to go away.
“Come home with me,” she says, taking my hand in hers in a determined grip.
I could pry my hand away, but I don’t want to hurt her.I don’t want to hurt a woman ever again.
“I’ll get you a real drink,” she says in a lower voice.“Something satisfying.”
“No, thank you,” I say, wondering why I’m being polite when she’s grabbing me like this.I’ve had overly friendly fans before, but this is ridiculous.
I’m trying to disentangle my fingers from hers when a female voice says from behind me, “Sebastian?”
I turn around and see Ella, who looks stricken.And of course she does—a strange woman is holding my hand.
Fuck.
Four
Ella
I’m not a jealous person.I’m not a jealous person.
I’m not a jealous person, and yet I want to yank this woman away from Sebastian.Not only does he look uncomfortable with her attention, but he’s actively trying to take his hand away from her.
“Ella,” he says, standing up.
The woman has no choice but to let him go—or cling to him in a really awkward way.
She looks like she’s considering clinging, but thankfully, she doesn’t.
“Who’s your little friend, Bastian?”she asks.
“I don’t know you,” he says to her.“Please leave me alone now.”
The look on her face is pure indignation, but she walks away, throwing an icy glare over her shoulder at me as she goes.
He steps toward me and looks like he wants to hug me, but is afraid of my reaction.
I try to smile even though my face doesn’t want to work properly.I’m exhausted after a double shift of cleaning—at a hotel downtown that needed an extra maid for the morning, and then at Dorado Terrace.And then I come in here to pick up my check, and…this?
“Hey,” I say, forcing out the greeting.
“Hey,” Sebastian says.
I step into his arms and wrap my arms around him.Holy crap, how did it come to be that hugging Sebastian feels likehome?It feels so right to have his arms wrapped around me and to lean into him.
“I didn’t want that woman to touch me,” he says.
“I know,” I say, pressing my face to his chest and breathing in his refreshing scent.
Even though I know he didn’t invite that woman’s attention, it doesn’t change the fact that the whole world tilted sideways when I saw her hand on his.Kingston and Sebastian have told me repeatedly that they want this to be a real relationship, the three of us.They want to take me on a date.The fucking we do is unbelievable, but I’ve been trying to approach it casually.
My reaction to seeing another woman hitting on Sebastian?
There’s nothing fucking casual about the way I wanted to rip her fingers from her hand because she dared to touch him.
I take a deep, fortifying breath, trying to calm down my racing heart and chase away the residual jealousy washing through my brain.Stepping back a tiny bit, I look up at Sebastian’s handsome face.His beard gives him a roguish look.
“What are you doing here, anyway?”I ask.
