Chapter 27

Christian's POV

Inside the bathroom, I looked at myself in the mirror while I ran the water from the tap so that Belle wouldn't hear me breathing hard. I couldn't explain what the hell had happened there but I sure knew it wasn't what I had wanted. For days I had been fighting the urge not to rip off her clothes and do with her what I had been dreaming of for quite a long time.

Being with her in the same room had been too difficult especially when she was dressed like that. I didn't know if she did it in purpose.

At the party, she had looked breathtaking that it was so hard to keep my eyes away from her. That was the sole reason I pretended to be busy, so as not to give in to the urge of touching her and somehow that had been so difficult.

After washing my face and relaxing for a while, I walked out of the bathroom, promising myself not to touch her again.

She sat on her bed, combing her hair when I walked into the room and I turned to my bed without speaking to her.

"Gabrielle called