Total pages in book: 159
Estimated words: 149148 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 149148 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 746(@200wpm)___ 597(@250wpm)___ 497(@300wpm)
Helios glanced down at the third toilet bowl he had scrubbed clean with distaste. “I fucking hate being a normal guy.”
She gasped, letting her lower lip tremble a bit as if she was about to cry.
Helios said hastily, “But I love you more, which is why I will do this gladly.”
MJ turned around swiftly so Helios wouldn’t see her grinning. But her rocking shoulders gave her away and she shrieked when Helios spun her around and pushed her against the wall. “What’s this?” he purred. “You’re trying to manipulate me now?”
“Err, yes?” She had a hard time breathing at how close they were. When Helios pressed his body closer to hers, she almost closed her eyes and moaned.
He whispered into her ear, “You think you have me in the palm of your hands because I’m in love with you?”
“Err, yes to that, too?” She held her breath, wondering if this was the time Helios would finally snap.
But all he did was grin and kiss her nose. “You’re right. So hurry up and fall in love with me.”
When he turned around, MJ was this close to throwing her toilet brush at his head, and only the knowledge that doing that would make Helios Andreadis really angry kept her from doing it.
It had been a week since Helios had asked her to make him beg, and she had. Things that Helios Andreadis couldn’t have possibly done, she had made him to do. Tutor failing cheerleaders in their dorm so they could pass their exam and not lose his temper while doing it? Check. Mow the lawn while the boyfriends of girls at the dorm egged him and threw garbage his way? Check. Talk about the importance of being open with his feelings to one of the boys at the dorm when he had been dumped because he had been too arrogant to admit to liking the girl first (and Helios had to do it without choking)? Check.
There was nothing she had asked him to do that Helios had not done right away and had not excelled at. The problem was, she was close to begging, too. Helios hadn’t touched her or kissed her since that night as well, and she just couldn’t make herself ask him. She had her pride, too...which was why she was reduced to seducing him in the most subtle ways she could think of.
Did Helios know she was trying to seduce him? She hoped not. Surely not. If he had known, Helios’ arrogant nature would have made him smirk and crow at her weakness.
“President?”
Helios got up from his crouching position at MJ’s inquiring tone. “I told you not to call me—” He almost found himself unable to speak by the time he turned fully to MJ and saw her bent over on the toilet, with her long shapely legs and practically half of her butt exposed by her tiny pair of denim shorts.
Helios breathed hard for a moment—
MJ balanced herself on the heels of her feet to peek at Helios’ expression when he stopped speaking. “President.”
Helios swiftly rearranged his facial expression to something that was more furious than tormented. “That,” he said shortly. “Don’t call me that. You know it’s not true anymore.”
She bit her lips. “That’s what I was wondering about. Are you sure you’re really okay with you not having anything to do with...bikes?” While she was immensely happy having Helios with her all the time, she couldn’t help but feel guilty as well, knowing she was taking him away from one of the few passions Helios had in his life.
But, MJ thought defensively, it wasn’t like she had asked him to do it. He had volunteered – and she had just said yes. So really, she hadn’t done anything wrong.
“Hey.” Helios was suddenly close, looming over her, a worried frown on his face. “Have you been worrying about that?”
“Nope.” But according to his fan page on Facebook, she should. There were thousands of girls who blamed her for no longer having Helios Andreadis to look forward to in underground bike races.
He snorted. “You are – and you shouldn’t be.” He bent down halfway so he could caress her cheek. “I chose you, brat. You’re my life. When I saw you flying in the air after riding the bike that one time—” The memory had him whitening, and his hand shook when he caressed her face again. “I almost died back there. I don’t want something like that to happen again.”
The emotions underlying his tone made MJ bite her lip. She still couldn’t get used to Helios revealing so much of his feelings, making her treasure every instance he opened up to her. “I’m sorry I was so stupid back then,” she whispered, knowing she had to own up to being partly to blame at least. “I was just so out of my mind about losing you and thinking about my dad that I...”