Toxic Truth

16

ZELLA

I wake up to a warm body nestled against my back and huge, strong arms wrapped around my waist.

It takes me a moment to remember where I am.

I'm in Liam's bed. With him hugging me from behind. We slept together.

"Good morning," Liam rasps in a husky and irregular voice, his arms tightening around me, as he starts placing kisses on my neck.

"Good morning," My voice comes out as a low moan when he starts sucking my pulse point. "Liam."

His door lock rattles loudly and I gasp, pushing him away from me. Thankfully the door is locked.

"Liam!" Isabella's voice comes from outside. "Open the door! I'm already late for school and Amo isn't dropping me off, the driver isn't here either."

Liam groans loudly. "I fucking hate them sometimes."

I laugh as I push him out of the bed. "Go and listen to her, the poor girl will be late for her class."

Liam opens the door and Isabella is about to say something when her eyes drop to me, and her mouth falls open. "Oh."

"I'm so sorry, I had no idea you were here," She says to me before glaring at Liam. "Why didn't you tell me before?"

Liams shrugs nonchalantly. "Go downstairs, and tell Amo I told him to drop you off. I'm coming down in two minutes."

She quickly hurries off downstairs, probably not wanting to see us here, with me in her brother's bed.

"Are you sure they don't mind me being here like this?" I ask worriedly.

Liam smiles lightly and places a hand on my cheek, "I'm sure Zel. They know about you, you can come here whenever you want and stay for as long as you want."

"All right," I say as some of my worry flickers away and he presses a kiss against my lips, before going to the washroom.

After brushing his teeth, he goes downstairs to deal with his siblings, and I go inside to freshen up.

When I'm done brushing my teeth and washing my face, I wear my clothes again and go downstairs to see where Liam is.

Creeping on the stairs, I stop on the second last step when I see Liam in the living room with his siblings, who are still here.

Amo sees me first and raises his eyebrows, his amusing gaze moves to Liam who senses me here too.

They both eye each other, talking wordlessly, something that I cannot decipher. Their interaction breaks off with Liam glaring at Amo and him laughing.

"Hi Zella."

"Hi." I say softly, as I continue my steps and join them.

"Okay, you guys go to school now," Liam tells them.

"I'm driving her to school now, but you or the driver have to pick her up, I have practise today." Amo says, as he picks up his bag and starts walking to the door.

Isabella follows him, shutting the door behind her as they both leave.

Liam rubs the back of his head and looks at me apologetically. "I'm sorry about them. They're used to barging into my room, they'll be careful from now on, don't worry."

I chuckle. It's so cute how he keeps worrying about me and his siblings.

"It's fine Liam, stop worrying about them and me. Now give me something to eat, I'm hungry."

His dimple pops out as he smiles. "Yes Ma'am."

"Maria comes over at 9, so you'll have to deal with what I make today," he says and leads me to the kitchen.

"I'll be fine till it's something edible," I joke and sit on the bar stool in front of the kitchen counter while he rummages through the fridge, taking out eggs, milk and some other stuff he needs.

"Do you eat omelette?" He asks.

"Yes, add cheese in mine too if you have it."

He gives me a disgusted look but takes out cheese from the fridge.

I swear to God this man despises every food that I like.

"Should I help you?" I ask and his answer is immediate with no hesitation.

"No."

"Are you sure? I could make coffee for you."

"I'll do that. You just need to sit right where you are."

I chuckle. "All right then. I'll enjoy the view of you cooking without a shirt."

And what a view it is. His back muscles flex with every step he takes, or anytime he opens the drawer to take something out, making the muscles in his arm flex.

Oh Lord.

"Stop staring. If I knew the sight of me shirtless would make you drool like that, I would wear shirts way less," He smirks infuriatingly.

I scoff. "Don't flatter yourself, I wasn't staring at you, I'm just seeing what you're cooking."

He smirk widens even further. "Sure, tell yourself that. It might help you sleep at night."

All I can do is roll my eyes and pretend I wasn't staring because I did in fact get caught staring.

"So, what time do you leave for work?" I ask.

"I'll leave in a hour or so," he replies as he takes out the omelette on the plate and sets it in front of me. "Do you want coffee?"

"Nah, I don't really drink it everyday with breakfast."

He raises his eyebrows playfully. "Not an addict huh?"

"Not yet," I joke.

He gets me orange juice which I drink while having my breakfast. He gets his own omelette and coffee and sits in front of me, digging into his food.

One hour later, he's all ready for work and dropping me off to my apartment.

"You could come with me today too," Liam suggests as we stop in front of my building.

"We could," I lean closer to him. "But I have work to do, which I haven't been doing much lately because of you, and I also promised to meet Natalia tonight."

He makes a cute exasperated face but nods as he takes my hand and holds it up to kiss the back of it.

"All right then, I'll see you later Zel."

My face is heating as I mumble a goodbye and get out of the car. He waits till I go inside and I wave him once before opening the door and going inside.

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