SIXTEEN

Seeds of Guilt and Lust

Lolita moved back immediately. This was going all too fast for her. She hasn’t even fully processed Hayden’s presence in her bedroom and now her boyfriend was home? What had she ever done to the universe to be put in this kind of position?

Tessa gasped at the scene, but otherwise she stayed back and didn’t say a word. The tension in the air was so tight, Lolita could almost smell it. Hayden’s right hand was tucked in his pocket while he watched his brother, his gaze still ablaze with interest. It was almost as if this was a game to him, like he was happy to be caught in Lolita’s bedroom.

“You’re home early,” she managed to say, even though her voice sounded crooked.

“And for the right reasons too,” Jarrod retorted. “Are you hooking up with my brother?”

“No, no!” she waved her hands desperately in the air. “I would never, you know that!”

“You would never do that, yet I caught him touching you?”

“He’s only touching my face!” She turned frantically to the other br