Page 91 of Arianna

Now, I was left floundering.

Tiptoeing.

Pretending like, night after night, I wasn’t dying to trace my fingertips over every line of her body. Get lost in those green eyes and that honeyed flesh. Felt as if I was losing my mind with how badly I wanted her.

I should fuck someone else and get her off my mind. Fuck her out of my brain.

Someone that knows and can give me what I want.

No-name basis.

No connections.

No chance of a knife being driven into my back.

Because I know Arianna is not someone you fuck. No. She is the type of woman you court, love, and then put a ring on her finger and a baby in her belly.

Yeah, she is not a quick fuck.

She is a problem.

Should be my enemy and nothing else. I needed that shit drilled into my brain.

Chuckling at my stupidity, I throw my head back on the soft pillow and exhale, blowing the smoke from my lungs and watching it disappear into nothingness.

Right along with my common sense.

I lied.

I lie to myself every second I think of her.

Every time I recite all the ways, she is wrong for me.

How I am wrong for her.

I also lied when I called her a coward. The girl is anything but a coward. She is a powerhouse at barely twenty years old.

Every day, here with me, in a world she is not accustomed to, is a test of her strength and bravery but sometimes, we all need a subtle nudge in the right direction, and something tells me that the key to that girl’s frozen heart is her sisters. Gabriele won the moment Arianna severed her ties with the people who clearly care for her deeply, and he is still winning.

She has yet to see it.

ARIANNA

Green Monster

“Jealousy is beneath me

but the hell with it. He is mine.” – A

“Êtes-vous certain que c’est le mouvement que vous voulez faire?” Are you certain that is the move you want to make? My cocky opponent’s flat tone only makes me roll my eyes.

Sebastian is teaching me how to play chess.

Correction.

How to win at chess.

He surprised all of us this morning by freeing his schedule and spending the morning with us.

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