I Want You

Chapter 16

Lennon.

My fingertips dance across Xan's collar bone, trailing over the tail of his tiger tattoo. "Your tattoos are so pretty and intricate, I love them." I say, my eyes solely focused on the ink in his skin.

He texted me right after Tayen left to meet up with Ace, saying the person he was supposed to tutor canceled and if I wanted to come over before his shift at the shelter I could. So of course I came over. I attacked him as soon as he opened the door and now we're laying on his bed naked in post orgasmic bliss.

His thumb grazes back and forth across my hip where his hand rests. "Thanks. My Uncle did them, he has his own shop."

Right over his Adam's apple there's a skull with three flowers peeking around it. "What kind of flowers are these? I ask, my fingers tracing the petals.

He brushes my hair away from my face and tips my chin up so I meet his gaze.   "Mugunghwa, South Koreas national flower." He replies but I'm too focused on the emotions dancing in his dark eyes as he looks at me.

It's something I want to catalogue and store in my brain forever, I want him to always look at me exactly like that. Flutters scatter around deep within my stomach and my heart thumps a rapid beat in my chest. I know I'm falling for him, I'm falling fast and with that look in his eyes I know he's there falling with me into the beautiful unknown.

I press a kiss against the tiger tattoo and lay my head on his chest, breathing him in, memorizing everything about this moment because I know in the future I'll look back at this time with nothing but a smile on my face and love in my heart.

My eyes focus on the wall beside his bed, my index finger tracing letters and shapes across his bare chest. "Draven invited me to a party at his house tonight."

He always invites all the cheerleaders, football players and basketball players to his parties. They're usually better than the Frat parties because he buys the good alcohol but he doesn't have them often.

"You know I liked Draven until I found out he had a thing for you." Xan grumbles.

I raise up on my elbow so I can see those dark gray eyes of his and flash him a smile. "You're cute when you're jealous."

He narrows his eyes at me and I can't help but laugh lightly as I press a kiss against his lips. "You'll be happy to know he's moved on and is interested in Divya now." Not that I thought he was all that into me. It's Draven, I don't think I've ever seen him seriously date anyone and with his impending arranged marriage I can see why. "Even if he was into me you should know he wouldn't have a chance. No one did after New Years Eve." I admit.

The crush I harbored for Jax was a speck of dust compared to the way Xan makes me feel.

"Of course not." He smirks playfully.

I groan and bury my face in his bare chest. "God, your ego!"

He laughs and rolls over on top of me. "You love my ego too."

I do for some crazy reason. Now that I've seen more than just the surface level of him I don't mind the teasing, it's how he flirts.

I shoot him a fake glare. "I'm starting to rethink—"

His mouth cuts me off and I sigh into the kiss as our lips move in sync to one another until I can barely form a coherent thought. I think I'd be perfectly happy with spending the rest of the night just like this.

He grins down at me, that beautiful crooked grin and those dark gray eyes have my stomach doing somersaults. "New Years Eve only solidified how I felt about you. Like I said before I've been a little obsessed with you since freshman year."