Take The Bait (The Stars Align Series Book 4) by JB Sharp

Author:JB Sharp [Sharp, JB]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-01-19T00:00:00+00:00

It's close to midnight when I come storming into the apartment. I feel bad for whoever lives below us because the last week since Ashton moved in, I have been doing more stomping around than ever before. The sight of the curtains pulled shut, the light over the oven on and the countertop void of dishes doesn't even lighten my mood.

How did I not know that Ashton was a teenager? No wonder he doesn't know how to pick up after himself.

I make my way down the hallway to his room, not giving a shit that he may be sleeping. The door is cracked open, the glow of the full moon in the sky lighting the room from the inside out. As I push the door open further, the beam spreads onto the hallway floor. Ashton is splayed out in the middle of his mattress, his chest on full display and the sheet barely coming up over his groin. I can't help but wonder if he is naked underneath that thin layer of woven cotton.

Towering over him like this makes me feel powerful, in control. I take a deep breath hoping I can ease some of the pent up energy in me that pushed me to storm in here, dueled by sexual tension that is thicker than a piece of cheesecake after Christmas dinner.

His mattress is sitting on the floor like this is some kind of bachelor dorm room. My foot pushes against his in an effort to wake him. All I get is a groan and he nuzzles his head into the pillow. I do it again, this time with more force, adding his name to see if that will get his attention.

Nothing.

I move back to the doorway, about to leave, when I hear him. "Melanie? What the fuck time is it?" His voice is somehow deeper than normal, raspy from sleep.

I whip around to face him, the plan to let it go for the night now demolished. His body is propped on his elbows and his eyes are hanging half open, half asleep. "It's morning ... you didn't think you should have told me your age? Nineteen, Ashton? Are you kidding me? You're practically a kid, what the hell!"

My mind darts to the night we met, how his hands were marked as they roamed over my body. How much I didn't care, or even consider, what the marks might have meant.

"Who cares how old I am? I'm over eighteen, why does it matter? I'm an adult."

"It fucking matters! Oh my God, I almost slept with you!"

Ashton is up and off his mattress in an instant. I am thankful he is wearing pants, though they are the same grey sweatpants from the other night and they are hanging so low on his hips that I worry he might walk right out of them as he storms toward me. His hand plants on the doorframe above my head, his eyes fully awake now and boring into my soul like waves of the sea wearing down the beach.

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