Lorenzo's POVI've never been happier than this- with Celestine's head on my chest and her light snores brushing the hairs on my body. Running my hand down her back, I lay there, thinking. I can't shut the thoughts out as they drift into my head unbidden. What's going to happen to Celestine and me after these two weeks are over? Are we going to keep our relationship hidden forever? Is there even another option for us?Sighing, I press a kiss against Celestine's forehead and she snuggles closer to me. My chest squeezes.I'm not going to overthink this. I'm just going to enjoy each and every moment I can get with Celestine for however long that might be.Slipping out from under Celestine proves to be a difficult task. She is like a vise wrapped around me. It takes me prying her arms off my person for her to let go but thankfully she doesn't wake up from all the shuffling around I did. Instead, she grabs a pillow and clutches it to her chest. Great. I'm jealous of a pillow. Just how low

Lorenzo's POV Who's at the door?"Go hide in the room." I mouth to Celestine, standing up and moving to the door but not opening it. I watch Celestine scurry into the room and wait until she shuts the door behind her before I turn the knob on the door and open it."Hey." It's Joey and Louis.I nearly slide down the door as relief pours over me in waves. Opening the door wider, I step aside for them to come in."We saw the light on last night and seeing as nobody has been here for years, we thought someone broke in." Louis stops in the middle of the room, looking at the mess on the table consisting of cards, poker chips, and an opened bottle of tequila. He turns around and arches an eyebrow at me, "You have a guest with you?""Yes." I move over to the room and knock lightly on the door. Celestine opens it, creating just enough space for her to fit her head through. "You can come out now." I shift to the side so she can see Louis and Joey."Of course," Louis says, smiling and walking o

Celestine's POV "Let's go find you something." She pulls me by my hand into the store, ignoring my protests. And trust me, they were a lot of them."Which should we go with?" Joey holds up a corset that comes with suspender belts and a crotchless underwear set. She holds them up in front of my body, exchanging one for the other a few times. "Fuck it. Let's get both."She pulls me- something she seems to be doing a lot today- to the checkpoint, places the two outfits on the counter, and pulls out her wallet."No. I'll pay for it," I say, reaching into my purse for my wallet."Nonsense." She swats my hand just as I extend my credit card to the cashier. "Think of it as a thank-you gift." She gives the lady behind the counter her card instead.I let out a tiny thank you as the lady rings up our purchase and puts it in a bag for us. She hands it to Joey and Joey passes it over to me. "I hope you enjoy the gift," she comments with a sly smile on her face. I can feel my face heat up. "Let'

Celestine POVI wake up to the morning sun streaming in through the opened window. I groan and pull the bedsheet over my head just to have it ripped away from my body."Get up, sleepy head." Lorenzo stands at the end of the bed in a swim trunk and has on a smile that's too bright for this time of the day."Fuck off." I drag the bedsheet out of his hand, using it to shield my eyes again. "Comes on." He drags the bedsheet off my body again. Waving it in my face, "come get me if you want it back." Then he runs out of the room.The jokes are on him. A flat surface is all I need to fall asleep. I curl myself into a ball, my face turned away from the direction of the sunlight. The chilly morning air from the window hit my naked body but I guess this will have to do."Are you kidding me?" That's what I hear a few minutes later. I peek through an eye to see Lorenzo glaring at me with his hands on his hip. It makes me smiles as I close my eye back."Get the fuck up." The bed dips as he gets

Celestine's POV He wants to take off my bikini and fuck me here?! He's an idiot but I also know he just did that to distract me. There's something he's not telling me. I could keep on pressuring him to tell me but I feel like it's something I would rather be oblivious to. If I don't know about it then it doesn't matter, right?"What's that you got there?" Lorenzo asks, stretching his neck over my shoulders to see what I'm reading."A novel. Love to hate my stepbrother by lady barbecue." Inserting my finger through the pages I'm reading, I flip the book over so Lorenzo can see the cover of it. It's a picture of a teenage boy wearing a leather jacket with tats all over his body. "Hot, right?" I raise an eyebrow in question.Lorenzo scoffs. "Not as hot as me." He digs into the bag we brought along with us. "What's it about?" I recently purchased it but I know the main plot of it. "It's about a girl and her stepbrother trying to overcome the trials that come in the way of their relation