It had been four months since Nicholas asked me to be his girlfriend, secretly.
And ever since that evening in the pool house changing room, he hadn't kept his hands off me. We weren't just pretending anymore. We were really doing this and living out a forbidden, fiery, untamed affair behind closed doors. His daughter Bella, my best friend, had no clue what went on under her father's roof. She still saw me as her innocent friend crashing in the guest room. But behind her back, Nicholas and I were sneaking around like criminals drunk on lust.
Every time we were alone, something inside him snapped. The way he kissed me, touched me, f****d me, and gosh…it was like he needed me just to breathe. And God, I needed him too. For the first time in my life, I felt seen, wanted, worshipped.
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