A Staircase Situation

Bella

I left his room with my head down, regretting what I had done.

“Did I mess up?” An inner dialogue began in my mind as I found myself lost in deep contemplation.

“Nothing,” I told him in response to his question without thinking. I did have other ways to thank him! Like…

“Okay. You can go now. See you tomorrow then," was his stupid response. Couldn't he convince me? Try to make me stay? Seduce me?

Xander had way too much self control for someone who fucked a total stranger on the first day they met.

I don't know what I expected when he asked me to marry him but it wasn't this. Maybe he didn't want to touch me because of the baby. But a man of Xander's abilities should know that at the early stages, it could still happen.

I think I'm just a crazy ass lunatic!

All you need to know is, I messed up real big; an opportunity of probably forever. I couldn't do those things girls in Hollywood movies did— the usual, wear a bikini or those rope-like things that held your th