18

ATHOS

It had been a week since I had seen Ryleena . We had both discovered the times the other was around the house – she going to and from school, me from work – and we avoided seeing each other. It was better that way, not just because I wanted to distance myself from a person capable of applying the blow to me. belly, but because it was the only way to control the unreasonable attraction I felt for this girl.

I still could not believe I was about to lose my mind and take her in my arms when she broke into my room. A teenager who was still almost a child! When had I become this kind of man?

Despite her age, Rylee had all the makings of a woman, she was beautiful, sexy, and was moving me in a way that I could not help it, try as I might. The pull he had on me was there, alive, undeniable. Avoiding meeting around the house was the best decision to be made, although it was not easy.

If on the one hand I did not want to see her; on the other hand, he spent the whole day worrying about t