I know what he wants. It’s what I want, too.
I look up at him and smile. He smiles back, puts his hands on my shoulders, and leans down to kiss me.
His lips feel soft, and his breath smells like the minty gum he was chewing earlier. His kiss is gentle and pleasant, everything I hoped it would be.
Then, in a blink of an eye, everything changes.
I don’t even know what happened or how it happened. One minute, I’m kissing Jake, and the next, he’s lying on the ground, unconscious. A large figure is looming over him.
I feel a sharp prick on the side of my neck, and my world goes completely dark. My arranged marriage with Stone made my world dark ever. That’s the bad day of my life I can’t forget. And it’s totally different from other marriages. Stone has a very strange personality. I never
