Claimed by My Billionaire Stepbrother Novel - Chapter 8

Chapter 8 Adam Crest has told me a lot of things since we met . Some of them were funny , some of them obnoxious , and some of them were just permanently stamped to my brain , impossible to forget . Like that day when we'd been watching bad TV shows and he'd started speaking out of nowhere . He did that a lot . ed been looking at the screen the whole time , his arm wrapped around me and my head resting on his chest . Hed -Did you feel it Layla ?

He'd begun , his thumb repeatedly brushing over my arm , Did you feel it when your heart sped up enatically ? When your breathing became labored ? When you lost track of the minutes as they flew by ? …. Tell me nower , did you feel it ? … Because I did . And as if on cue , his heartbeat suddenly sped up , the sound echoing in my ear . Present Day I slammed the door behind me , barely holding back a scream . My skin still burned from his touch , my lips still tingled from his damn mouth .

What the hell was wrong with me ? How could I have kissed him back ? " You're a fucking idiot , " I muttered to myself , pacing the length of my tiny living room . " A pathetic , weak little idiot . You let him get to you . Again . " 1 yanked off my heels , hurling them one by one across the room . The first one hit the couch , the second bounced off the coffee table and skidded across the noor . Didn't matter . Nothing mattered except the boiling frustration clawing at my chest .

It had been so long since someone had managed to get under my skin like that , and it was seriously messing with me . I was slowly starting to lose that strong grip I'd developed on my control , and I could feel traces of that old anger in my blood . The same one I'd manage to time . And it was all because of him ! 1 needed water .

Something to cool me down , because if I didn't , I'd probably end up throwing something else , like my phone , which I was dangerously close to crushing in my fist . I stomped to the kitchen , yanking open the fridge . The cold air hit my face , a welcome relief against my overheated skin . I reached for the water bottle , but before I could grab it ….. CRASH Every muscle in my body locked up , breath strangled in my throat . My heart lurched violently against my ribs .