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Alex's body felt tense and hard beneath me. He closed his eyes and frowned briefly before finally looking at me again. Luckily I still have common sense, I pushed my body away from him but suddenly Alex's hands held my waist so I fell back into his warm embrace.

"I've dreamed about this hundreds of times in my head," he said in a deep, guttural voice.

"Me- Dreaming of what?" my reply was a bit stammered. My body squirmed in his tight embrace, but I realized my mistake when a painful frown crossed his face again. After that I didn't dare to move my body anymore.

"Holding you this tight, Cara," he answered softly. One of his large hands moved down my back.

I pulled the corners of my lips down.

Outside the sound of raindrops now turned into a pretty heavy storm. "Then why did you leave me so easily, Alex?" My voice sounded bitter, I didn't want to pretend to hide my feelings anymore.

"You know what the reason is."

I snorted angrily in response. "So you decided on your own without telling