Blurred Lines

Chapter 17

When what he said penetrated I turned around to face him but immediately regretted it when I realised just how close we really were.

My eyes were level with his broad chest,my head barely reaching his shoulders.

I swallowed and forced myself to ask "what do you mean by 'let's make it real'?"

His eyes fell to my lips "what I said" he raised his gaze back to my eyes "I like you, I thought it was platonically but when I saw Grayson flirting with you,I saw red"

A thrill shot down my back at his words and I nervously licked my lips "so you were jealous?"

He scowled at that "yes, and I can honestly say I hate the feeling.”

I didn't know what to say to that. I hadn't really expected him to admit he was jealous.

Christian grabbed my hand in his "say you'll be mine"

Yes yes yes yes

"I'm no one's"

"you'd be mine if we were dating" he said with a slight smile

His eyes were so intense on mine I almost thought he could read my mind so I moved my gaze to his throat "why?"

Stop asking so many questions flo, geez you're not a reporter yet and you're already interviewing a potential suitor.

Suitor? What the hell is wrong with me?

"Why what?,why do I want you to be mine?"

I gave a little nod and he glared at me

“I don’t know. But I know I want to be the reason for your smiles. I want to to take you out on dates. I know if I see you with another man I might kill him"

Oh,well that was really descriptive.

My heart started thumping again at the idea of him liking me enough to kill someone out of jealousy.

"I don't want you to go to jail" I told him

"I don't want to either" he said dryly

I raised my gaze to meet his "so hypothetically,if I was yours does that make you mine?"

He smiled at that "hypothetically yes"

I swallowed. Come on ask me again. Don't be so stubborn.

"Wait,I'm not doing this properly,am I?" Christian asked with a sudden grin.

Before I could understand what he meant he had my hand in a firm grip and gazed at me with twinkling eyes and a wide grin "Avalyn Rose Blake,I like you,will you do me the honour of being my girlfriend?"

Omg,I raised my hand to my mouth to prevent a sound from coming out,and nodded frantically unable to make a sound. And when I finally found my voice I whispered "yes" my voice barely audible but he heard.

His grin got wider -which I never thought was possible as his lips crashed on mine.

The kiss was deep,unlike the ones we've shared before and I responded eagerly. I wanted him with an urgency I never felt before.

He lifted me up and I wrapped my legs around him. He moved forward with our lips still locked together and my arms wrapped around his neck as I felt my back pressed against the door.

His hands moved to my hips and I realised he'd lifted my dress above my knees when I felt the cool air on my hot skin. My eyes fluttered close as I sift my fingers through his soft hair.

He sucked my bottom lip and I opened my mouth allowing his tongue to meet mine.

I moaned unconsciously rubbing myself against him and he groaned in response.

"Ava" Christian said breathlessly as he broke the kiss placing open mouthed kisses on my neck,biting and nipping at my sweet spot. I pressed my lips together to prevent the moan bubbling behind my throat from coming out.

His hand moved to my back and cupped my ass. I let out a loud moan as he pressed into me and squeezed my ass.

"Christian" I moaned when he cupped my breast.

We both froze when someone suddenly knocked at the door.

"Christian” Grayson’s voice floated into the room "mom said if you and Ava don't come down in the next ten minutes you're not going to get any dinner" then his footsteps floated away.

Christian dropped his head on my neck and groaned. I let my hands rub his back soothingly.

He's mine now.

A thrill went through me at the thought and I resisted the urge to squeal. That would look really weird. Then a thought occurred to me and I gasped in horror "Grayson probably heard us didn't he?"

Christian lifted his head then and squinted at me "probably"

I gasped again and scrambled away from him. My cheeks grew hot and i knew my cheeks were tomato red.

I walked to the vanity stand and sat down,applying a light makeup and arranging my now dry but disheveled hair. There was nothing I could do about my swollen lips of course.

I heard clothes rustling behind me and I guessed Christian was getting dressed.

I sighed as I straightened my dress but something caught my eyes. My mouth dropped in disbelief and I Leaned closer to the mirror moving my neck to the side.

There it was on the base of my neck. I let out a gasp.

Christian's eyes met mine in the mirror and he asked "what's wrong?" His eyes clouded with concern.

"What's wrong??" I exploded as I stood up and marched to him. His look of concern melted to one of wariness as he saw the murder in my eyes that was directed solely at him.

"What's wrong???" I asked again as I stood in front of him. I pointed my finger to the spot on my neck "what's this?"

His gaze followed the direction of my finger and his face relaxed enough to smirk.

My mouth dropped open again.

He...he...smirked!.

He lifted his gaze and stared at me smugly "it's a hickey"

"No s**t Sherlock" I scoffed "I know it's a hickey,what I don't know is what it's doing on my neck"

I felt the panic start rising from my stomach and I started blabbing "oh my God,what will your family think??"

I grabbed his shirt front while he looked at me with something akeen to amusement. For his sake I hoped it wasn't.

"I know!,tell them I have the flu so I can't come down to dinner" I nodded already warming up to the idea.

Christian put his hands on my shoulders and said "Relax babe,shelby and Emma have come down to dinner with hickeys before and nobody crucified them"

I took a deep breath trying to calm myself down "you're right,I'm overreacting,it's just a hickey"

So what if I've never had one before?,it's no big deal. Nuh huh.

Christian smiled at me "that's it,are you ready to go down now?"

My eyes widened at the prospect "wait a minute,let me just take my scarf"

"You don't need a scarf babe,you look gorgeous"

I stopped my hunt for a scarf to give him a quick smile "thank you"

He grabbed my hand and dragged me to the door "Now come on,I'm hungry"

***

Dinner wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Aside from Mallory and Zoe giving me knowing looks everything was normal. Or as normal as it could be.

After blessing the food everybody dug in while speaking loudly.

Mallory faced Christian and raised her voice to tell him "Eat the mozzarella stuffed turkey meatball and Quinea soup,Ava made those"

He stilled in the process of putting a lasagna on his plate and turned to face me "Really?"

Then returned the lasagna into the serving dish and and filled his plate with the meatball and another plate with the soup.

I watched him expectantly as he took a bite of the meatball. His eyes widened and he took another bite. He finally turned to me and said "you made this?"

My body warmed at the obvious pleasure in his face and I gave him a cocky smile "of course"

He smiled and kissed me on the lips,in front of everybody. My face heat up as everybody hooted and called out suggestive remarks and Christian went back to eating with a grin.

Jerk.

It started drizzling after dinner and everybody retired to their respective rooms.

The rain soon started falling heavily.

Christian and I were both in bed cuddling when the first thunder clapped.

Christian started and removed his hand from around me to cover his ears. I stared at him in amazement,he couldn't be. The thunder clapped again and he gave a little yelp.

I scoffed and told him astonished "I don't get it,23 years old and you're still afraid of a little thunder?"

He looked at me with narrowed eyes "I'm not afra..." His protest was cut off when another thunder clapped and he covered his ears again.

I was about to remark sarcastically when the door suddenly swung open and Grayson,Rogan and Zoe piled in with their blankets in their hands.

My mouth dropped open when the three of them said simultaneously "thunder"

So they were all afraid of thunder?

They climbed on the bed,Zoe beside me,Gray and Rogan beside Christian squeezing us in the middle.

When another thunder clapped Grayson -the successful writer- said with quivering voice "let's sing the thunder song"

What thunder song?

I was answered when Zoe started "when you hear the sound of thunder,don't you get too scared.."

Amazing the guys even Christian and Grayson -supposedly ruthless business men- also joined in.

"...just grab your thunder buddy and say the magic words;f**k you thunder,you can suck my d**k,you can't get me thunder because you're just God's farts"

Then they all made farting sounds.

Oh boy.