BREAKING RULES, PULLING STRINGS

s temptations, specifically in the form of ho

ows through my mind as Enri

l and back! And then to hell again,

us lips, waiting for him to say he was joking. He doesn't

ou really do not know how to woo a lady huh? We've

g smile I've ever seen "Fair enough. Would you agree to go on a

t is. My jaw almost drops at the sight befo

oming to our table tonight." Zuri voices my thoughts, staring with jaws ope

nning wild. Maybe this is the recept

kept these pretty ladies to yourself." Th

ys again, his eyes trained on Zuri with a calculating smile

h hanging open and the stranger name

can see the tinge of red staining her cheek

tting with you?" Enrique asks a

nged for five. It seems fat

out to be a fifth wh

and dive into m

ing my drink over to me. Enrique notices, and drops his arm around my shoulder

ke, smiles respectfully and lea

yes pooling with questions. He just smiles inn

s everyone else on the table seems to be involve

laid, this is it. A mere whisper has me clenching my thighs and wishing he was whi

." I take a sip of my drin

efusal though; it just se

really love to get to know you better. I promise I don'

hat the w

enough. What do I need to do to

exy staring at me with obvious interest, but I have too much on

igh possibility you get worked down to your bones, then discarded wh

ally do not have any interests in relatio

ly interested in? I'll f

at I couldn't help but laugh, the sound draw

oned your friends for a man. I thought we came out here for a date

at celebration?"

p date planned so now we're out for two reasons." Zur

sh even the smallest, most insignificant feat. I wonder what life wou

d of more drinks and probably something to eat.

ked to serve variety of meats along with drinks, which to me is a plus. You would w

ctive man per hed next to me, whose pores seems to be secreting some kind

." a voice whispers mere inches away fr

the said dilemma. I try really hard to use the few brain c

rest! G

I'm available for right now. I want to sol

who is career centred – which, honestly, I am – but I don'

not what I meant. Stupid thoughts,

gets put off? I thought yo

eeds to figure out a way

my face, fingers snapping c

re?" It is

ever this unfocused. Okay, maybe I am sometimes. Most

ry, my mind seems to be going on li

ou focusing on your career. I have no problem with

n a pleading tone. "Besides, I think I'm a littl

teasing smile

ts teeth into my poor skin. Whoever upset it needs to be

ms, trying to get warm. "You'd think after the drinks

ds in the pockets of his coat. "A

at long. You only ask that because you h

say the same for you dummies though." He

pressure on my shoulders, and suddenly I

now realise, is what is hanging around my should

lways gone all out, and I somehow always felt closer to them when it's thanksgiv

made my blood run hot. Well, turns out the wind isn't

is an inquisitive tone. Even though I real

he last shot of whisk

follow his line of sight t

gh. I wink at Zuri as Ryan places his jacket

comments. He didn't seem happy about it

something to Zuri. By the blush on Zuri's fa

thing?" I turn to him, my eyes

e and smiles.

an effect being close to him has on me. Maybe I should actually

anyways, and he looks like the kind of

Get your shit

apping a stray loc of red hair around his

eyes. I have fleeting thoughts of belonging to him, but banish them jjust as q

evoked from my body without doing much, sp

oating as he places a palm on my che

ms to be dra

oes my breath smell bad? That b

just want to feel his lips on mine, I could already taste

is lips feel because Callum ch

blame it on the chilly night, it has absolutely nothing to do wit

." Callum clasps my hands in h

, I turn to cast a glance at Enrique. He is staring right at me with eyes like

o the driver but my mind is stuck on a certain man w

likely to meet

es that ma

. Too da