It All Started With a Bang

Chapter 3

Nick's furious brown eyes pierced my body as he hovered above me.

Reasons Why I Was Terrified

1. I am a good head shorter than him.

2. His eyes are like daggers.

3. I'm pretty sure his glare made me pee my jeans.

To say the least, he was intimidating the shit out of me. "Ronnie, you aren't going to tell Jessi anything."

His presence was threatening. This Asswipe actually had the balls to threaten me, I scoffed at him. He had better rethink his role in this situation. I was the one who had dirt on him, not the other way around. "Oh really?" I pressed my index finger to my lips. "Why should I not tell her?"

Nick's arms crossed over his chest as he leaned back against the wall behind him. "Because you don't want to hurt her, and we both know this would break her."

This would break her.

My shoulders tensed up slightly and I turned away from him. My back was to him and he couldn't see the pained expression on my face. Suddenly the walls in the bathroom felt like they were closing in. I felt trapped and very overwhelmed, my stomached quaked. You know that feeling when you know you did something wrong, that feeling in the pit of your stomach that almost grows the more you think about it? That's the feeling I had in this moment.

It takes me a while to find anything to say, "Do you often sleep with other women while you are with my sister?" The words slid off my mouth off so fast I had no time to think them through.

Jesus Ronnie, filter your words.

Nick's eyes went into slivers, "Do you often get drunk at clubs and go off with strangers?"

Damn, he makes me sound like a whore.

I sucked in my cheeks, it was weird how easily he could piss me off. Abruptly I pushed myself off the countertop and walked closer to him. "Just so happens you were a one-time kind of thing." He pulled himself away from the wall and brushed his shoulder past me.

I guess I'm not as menacing as I had hoped.

"You kissed me first." The sentence made me freeze on the spot. I had, hadn't I? The guilty pinch in my stomach grew. I didn't know that this was going to be the outcome of such a small thing. How dare he pin this all on me?

The pinch in my gut suddenly dispersed leaving me cold and angry. How dare he pin this whole thing on me? "You offered your hotel room." The words left my mouth and I walked closer to him.

Nick took another step towards me, "You didn't object."

Our bodies were pressed up together, the intensity growing more and more by the second. My heart was beating fast, almost like a hummingbird, and the raged breaths that I let out were getting harder and harder to hold in. His lips were only a little bit away. If I pressed onto my tippy toes, I thought, I would meet them with mine. But I couldn't, no, Jess would be broken.

I leaned away from him, my breath become quieter, "It takes two to tango Asshole."

Nick scoffed and grabbed my wrist, "Alright, we both agree that everything that happened was a mistake. It was a huge mistake that will never ever happen again." His tone was stone cold and his eyes burned into mine. "It will never happen again," he repeated.

My hands clenched into fists forcing my nails to dig into my skin. The pain exhilarated and I bit my lip, it was going to leave a mark. "A mistake?" I repeated in disbelief, my tone poisonous. So that's what it was to him? A mistake? Well wasn't it? Did I regret sleeping with Nick? Yes. Ronnie, he is Jess's fiancé, you'd be insane not to regret it.