Hidden Flames [The Ludovicas: Second Generation Book Three]

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This is such a good chapter, had me blushing and giggling 🤌🏼💗🦋
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KIAN

"I feel safe with you, Kian."

I should have pushed her away last night but then I didn't. She was right, once she had fallen asleep, I could push her away even before the time was over.

But I don't know when I fell asleep and how the hell we ended up sleeping like this.

We both faced each other, my arm stretched out over the pillow and her head rested on my arm, face way too close to mine.

Her fingers clutched the front of my t-shirt, as if afraid of letting me go, that I might disappear.

My eyes fell to her lips and I wanted to lean in and touch my lips to hers.

Fuck. That was the first time I wanted to kiss someone.

The only time I kissed a girl was when I was a teenager and was having sex for the first time. I didn't plan to kiss her but then she had and I allowed it, only for a few seconds before I realised that I didn't like it, it was too intimate for me.

That's it. That was more than a decade back.

I have never wanted to kiss anyone again until now.

Unconsciously, I leaned in, her breath fanning my lips and before I could stop myself, my tongue darted out, swiping over the corner of her mouth.

Fuck. What am I even doing?

I jerked back, carefully removed my arm from under her head and got off the bed.

She is messing with me badly.

This is only for a year, I reminded myself as I got ready for the day.

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It was Saturday and I was reading peacefully in my reading chair but my eyes kept straying to Irene who sat on the bed, using her phone.

Then at one moment, her eyes lit up and she was getting off the bed and walking to me.

"Look at this", she said, turning the screen of her phone towards me. "It's an edit made for that book of yours I was reading. It's so cool."

I watched it and nodded, going back to reading.

I thought she might leave but then she was sitting down on my thigh making me glare at her. "What are you doing?"

She smiled. "I wanna sit with you."

She wiggled back until she was settled comfortably on my thigh and leaned back, resting her head on my chest.

"Get off."

She ignored me and continued watching the reels on her phone in that position.

"Irene."

She glanced up at me with the most innocent look on her face. "Yes, hubby?"

Having her look at me like that made me forget what I was going to say.

Looking away from her, I covered my face with the book.

One day I am going to find out what kind of black magic she performs. There is no way a person could have this much effect on me without even doing anything.

I continued reading but realised a minute later that the same music was playing from her phone two times in a row.

I glanced down and found her watching a shirtless man doing pull-ups with his back facing the camera.