Page 57 of His Scarlette Obsession
(Seriously, though: what is it with my life that I always end up doing things that land my neck on the chopping block?)
But anyway.
Admitting my feelings to Lykan was the scariest thing I’ve ever done in my life, but...
Thank You, Lord.
I’m so, so glad Grandma Jackie reminded me that I had nothing to fear. If not for her timely advice, I would never have found the courage to confess my feelings first, much less hear him say...
I never stopped loving you.
I gaze down at my husband rather dreamily, unable to stop myself from replaying his words in my mind again and again.
I fell for you the moment I saw you.
And even in the times I hurt you...
And even when I forced myself —
OH NO.
Reality gatecrashes my daydreams, and I suddenly find myself confronted by an ugly truth: what happened between Lykan and me might not have stayed between Lykan and me because...because...
A squeak of embarrassment escapes me just as Lykan finishes smoothing my dress down my legs.
“What is it,habibti?”
“What we just did,” I strangle out. “Do you think...I mean...” I know I’m a grown woman and all, so why am I still struggling to say these things? “Do you think...I can’t remember making a sound, and we, um...we didn’t take too much time to...youknow.” I look at him hopefully. “So maybe, they wouldn’t realize—”
Lykan’s dark eyes have started to gleam, and my heart sinks.
I’m doomed.
My husband takes my hand as he leads me out of the en-suite, and my worst fears are confirmed as soon as I see Nadir actually holding back a red-faced Vaughn as if restraining him from kicking the door down to rescue me.
“You bastard,” Vaughn snarls.
“That would be you, not me.”
I shoot a look of dismay at Lykan. Rubbing salt on another person’s wound is so not cool, and—
“I apologize,” Lykan suddenly says. “My wife clearly doesn’t appreciate such words, and she’s right not to do so.”
Oh, my heart.
I did not expect him to say that at all, but I think I just fell in love with him all over again.
“She won’t be your wife for long—”
While I...I think I just fellOUTof love with Vaughn all over again because I never knew.
Like, seriously.
I never knew how foolishly stubborn he could be.
“Vaughn, please.” I’m hoping I can reason with him, but he doesn’t even look at me, and I think...that says a lot.
“This isn’t over,” Vaughn bites out. “You’ve obviously taken advantage of her innocence—”
