Innocent Temptation

[6] Decisions...

I couldn't stay there any longer. My eyes, heavy due to the lack of sleep, were numb and dry from being locked on the ceiling. Every now and then they threatened to close but the fear kept crawling back leaving me unable to rest.

I felt my whole body pleading for me to leave the apartment, my senses were trained to feel this way and to be alarmed. I checked the clock on the wall, it was early enough for Ivy to be awake but at least she was definitely back in the dorms.

I had to get out of there, I needed my mind to be at ease again and being at this apartment wasn't the answer. Part of me believed I was being irrational, if Jace wanted to make a move on me he would have done it already during the night, why would he wait for the morning? But the other part of me was the controlling one and the one that acted due to instinct. I gathered my purse and put on my shoes and walked towards the door but stood there with my hand on the doorknob, staring.

After the night I had with Jace and how he helped me get my head off my obnoxious professor, I couldn't just leave without at least thanking him. I turned back to the living room and stood confused, my legs suddenly stopped working when the idea of knocking on his door came to mind.

I urged them to move down the small corridor separating his room and the living room but my limbs turned to the opposite direction. My eyes scanned for a piece of paper and a pen from the kitchen and wrote down a simple 'Thank you for everything, Allie' note. I knew I would feel like a coward later on but at the moment, I felt as if staying in the apartment any longer would make me lose my mind.

When I closed the door behind me and made my wait to the stairs, I noticed the voices of a male and a female two floors bellow Jace's apartment followed by some steps. The voices were barely noticeable but as I got closer to the second floor the murmurs became louder. I stood on the stairs of the second floor staring at the door of the noisy apartment, they might as well invite the whole building to witness their eight o'clock discussion by now.

Before I could continue my way out of the building, I heard a door opening making my head to snap on the direction of the beige door I was previously observing. I ran my gaze along a man's discover feet and lower legs, along his thighs and lower stomach cover by a white towel, along his defined torso and arms. A body so perfectly sculpture that would make anyone weak in the knees. Then I saw them. I saw the flawless facial factions, the soft pair of lips and the azure eyes of a man I didn't expect. Even as loud as my mind was begging me to leave were I was standing, I couldn't get my limbs to move. Instead I just stood there with open mouth and no words.

What was he doing there? Was this also his building? Suddenly his eyes met mine as he stood before his open door.

"Miss Rodgers?"- The frown on his face and his voice indicated surprise as his blue gaze consumed mine before running his eyes up and down me. -"Busy night?"-

His confusion turned into a mocking smirk when he notice my clothes, the same I was wearing yesterday. My subconscious was ready to answer him, not holding back this time. 'Oh haha how funny, I wear the same clothes as yesterday I must have had sex the other night and right now I'm doing my walk of shame! So you're equally as charming during and after class huh?'

But just before I could open my mouth, a tall blonde model look alike woman appeared on the front door. Make up smeared across her face and bellow her aqua eyes and caring a pair of high heels on her hands, shoes that matched her crotch-size red dress. Emerson changed his annoying smirk into an emotionless plain face, as her arms hugged his exposed arm and her chin rested on his shoulder.

"Call me for another amazing night"- Her lips curved into a smile before leaving a wet kiss under his ear. I tried to hide my laugh and smile but failed miserably as Mr. Emerson's lady friend left and walked down the stairs. I cleared my throat to get his attention back to me.