LEO FUCKING WHITE! You!!??!!
I shot out of bed, clutching the sheet to my chest. “What the hell, Leo?!” I practically screamed, my heart racing.
Leo, equally stunned, was already on his feet, wide-eyed and pointing at me. “What the hell, me? What the hell, you?! How did this even happen?!”
“I don’t know!” I snapped, my voice shaky. “You’re the one who—who…” I trailed off, trying to piece together the blurry fragments of last night. Flashes of heated kisses, hands in places they shouldn’t be—none of it made sense now. “How could you let this happen?!”
Leo ran a hand through his hair, pacing back and forth like a caged animal. “Me? I didn’t let anything happen! You’re the one who—” He stopped, his brow furrowing. “Wait, you don’t remember anything, do you?”
“Of course I remember!” I lied, though the pounding in my head was making it hard to focus. “I remember… most of it.”
“Most of it?!” He looked at me in disbelief. “Do you realize how bad this is? You and me? This is a disaster!”
“You think I don’t know that?” I shot back. “This is literally the worst thing that could’ve happened! What if someone finds out?”
Leo rubbed his face, clearly as horrified as I was. “No one can know about this,” he muttered, almost to himself. “This was… this was a mistake.”
“A huge mistake!” I agreed, my voice sharp. “One we will never talk about again.”
“Agreed,” Leo said quickly, nodding. But then he pointed at me again, his eyes narrowing. “But for the record, you started it.”
I gasped. “Me?! You wish! You were all over me!”
He crossed his arms, smirking despite the chaos. “I seem to recall you pulling me in first.”
I glared at him, stepping closer. “Well, I seem to recall you not resisting.”
For a moment, we just stood there, glaring at each other, the tension thick in the air. Neither of us willing to back down, both of us knowing we were equally at fault.
But deep down, I knew this wasn’t over. Not by a long shot.
As we stood there, trading blame, a sudden memory flashed through my mind—one I wished had stayed buried. My breath caught in my throat.
I had been lying on that very bed, my body arching beneath him, my voice breathless, desperate. "Please… please, Leo… don't stop..."
My face flushed crimson, and I instinctively took a step back, mortified. “Oh my god…”
Leo must have noticed the change in my expression because his smirk quickly faltered. “What? What is it?”
I shook my head, panic bubbling up in my chest. “No… no, no, no.”
“What?” he demanded, his eyes narrowing suspiciously. “What are you remembering?”
I clenched my fists, my heart pounding as the memory played over and over in my head. How could I have said that? How could I have begged him like that? I could barely meet his eyes now, knowing that he had heard every desperate plea from my lips.
Leo’s face shifted, something dawning on him. “Wait, you—” His mouth curved into a slow, teasing smile. “Oh… you remember now, don’t you?”
“Shut up,” I growled, trying to push the memory aside, but it was too late. He was already grinning like a man who’d won a prize.
“You were begging, weren’t you?” Leo said, stepping closer. His voice was smug, full of that infuriating confidence. “You wanted it so badly.”
I turned my back to him, mortified beyond belief. “That’s not what happened!” I snapped, though I could still hear the sound of my own voice from last night, pleading for release. I couldn’t let him have this over me.
“Oh no?” He moved closer, his breath hot against my neck. “Then what happened?”
I whirled around, anger flaring in my chest. “This is your fault, Leo! If you haven’t—”
“If I hadn’t what?” he interrupted, his smirk growing. “Made you feel good? Made you beg for more?”
“Shut up!” I pushed him, but he didn’t budge, his smile only widening.
“Face it, Xena,” he said, his voice low and dangerous, “you wanted me. You still do.”
I clenched my teeth, trying to push the rising heat away. I hated him. I hated how smug he was, how right he probably was. And more than anything, I hated that I couldn’t deny it.
"Ohhhhhh my god!" I exclaimed, "this is a disaster" with that I got a water bottle.
Then suddenly his phone started ringing.
4 Years Later...
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Aegis Core
General Fiction"Beyond the veil of morality, where desire knows no bounds, Xena and Leo find themselves ensnared in a deadly game of seduction and betrayal. As the stakes rise, the Aegis Core comes together with shadows and the world burns around them, they must c...
