SINS (Completed)

SEDUCTION LESSONS

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Hardin

I plop down on the couch at the corner of the pool, breathing in the exuberant fragrance of a party in full fervour. After a beat, following me, even Trev comes over, taking the seat beside me.

There's EDM blasting endlessly, people grooving to it with glasses in their hands, and there's even a bunch in the pool.

I take a sip of my wine that I got from Trevor's personal refrigerator, because I need to discuss a few things about the case with Dennis early in the morning and so I don't intend to get wasted. As it is, everything related to it makes me mad, I don't want to do it with a hangover and a throbbing headache.

Absentmindedly, my eyes drift to the side, where Preston, Brit and Tessa are dancing together, like their year long rent is due. I can't help an involuntary smile at the trio.

Eventually, I pause to look at Tessa. I'm aware of my smile fading, and a foreign, inexpressible, powerful feeling takes over me.

It's like the whole crowd blurs away into unimportance, and there's only just her. It's these few seconds, that seem to stretch and pass achingly slow-

and I look at her.

Her eyes are closed, immersed in the feeling, and there's an occasional, careless laugh on her lips.

Her body grooves like electricity to the beat, and the bun on her head has shifted due to all the rigorous movement, making a few tendrils fall loose, some fanning her cheeks, some along her ear, and some sticking down to the nape of her neck.

I know I'm staring, and I know I shouldn't. I instruct my eyes to just, look away but I can't help as they rake through every inch of her, all the way down from the flats in her feet to the French manicured hand raised above her head-

"You're giving the creepy Romeo eye."

I close my eyes with a snap and open them only to look at the pool, shaking my head to get a grip of myself.