Chapter 59: Prey

He kissed her back just as passionately. They moaned softly as they exchanged the pleasures that their lips had to offer. Sharon was like a wild animal that had been freed of her bounds after many years in them. She didn't hold back at all and was ready to give her entire self to Sebastian.

"What are you doing?" Sebastian broke their fiery kiss and asked after she tried to remove his shirt.

"I want you," she said seductively, a trait she hadn't discovered that she possessed. The ability possessed by all women to drive a man crazy just with your words and the method with which you say them.

"Right now?" Sebastian asked, although he didn't understand why he was asking.

"Yes, now," she said and practically ripped his shirt off of his body.

She took off her blouse and lay on the rocky ground. Sebastian got over her and she helped him loosen his trousers and lifted her skirt and waited eagerly for him to do the deed.

"Take me now," she begged, and Sebastian kissed her bare breasts, all the way down her chest and abdomen.

"Take me," she repeated, her desire overwhelming her completely.

Sebastian was also overwhelmed with desire for this beautiful, flawless, and most perfect creature that lay before him, but it didn't feel right to him.

As much as he liked Sharon and wanted her, this was not how he had envisioned it, so he stopped.

"I...can't," he managed to say.

"What? What do you mean you can't?" Sharon asked.

He got up, and she picked up her shirt and covered it over her body. She was now feeling embarrassed because he was rejecting her.

"Look, Sharon. I like you a whole lot, and I'd be lying if I said that I didn't want to make love to you, but not like this. It feels way too rushed," he tried to be sincere.

"Oh, I see," Sharon said, got up, turned away from him, and began dressing up.

She felt stupid because of how she had acted. Sebastian was probably thinking that she was a slut that slept around with different men in public places. She had made a fool of herself, begging him to make love to her like a sex-drunk maniac.

She finished putting on her clothes and started walking down the hill and Sebastian chased after her.

"Sharon, Sharon. Wait, por favor," he called out to her, but she kept walking and didn't stop.

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On the boat ride back to Puntarenas, Sebastian tried to speak to Sharon, but she didn't respond to him. She was way too embarrassed about the whole situation, and she didn't want to talk about it.

They made it back to the hostel and Sharon quickly sought refuge in her bedroom, but before she made it to her door, Sebastian grabbed her hand.

"Are you just going to avoid me all day?" He asked her.

"Just let me go, Sebastian," she pleaded with him.

"Okay, fine. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for stopping, and I'm sorry if I upset you in any way. It's just that I like you a lot, Sharon and I just didn't want our first time together to be on top of a hill and fueled only by lustful desire and not passion."

"I understand," Sharon said coldly and tried to pull her hands free from his grip, but he wouldn't let go.

"Sharon, please. Let's just talk about this. Spend the night with me, just to talk, you know, get to know a bit more about each other," he asked.

Sharon thought about it for a bit and decided to go along with the idea. She figured that just a few hours ago she was ready to give her virginity to him, and it would be better to at least get to know more about him first before anything else.

"Fine. We'll talk tonight, but here, at my place. Ok?"

"I'm okay with that."

"Alright then. See you tonight," Sharon said, and he finally let her go and she went inside.

After Sharon went in, she locked the door behind her and walked over to the kitchen to get a drink of water. She looked up and noticed that one of the windows of her room was closed but not locked. She recalled that she had locked all the windows before she left the house that morning and slowly walked up to the open window.

She was starting to get a bit worried but didn't want to panic. Her anxiety was starting to poke at her and she felt very unsettled. She opened the window completely and stared outside towards the street, checking for anything suspicious, when all of a sudden, a flock of pigeons flew from below the building, right across her face, and up into the sky.

Sharon was immediately startled and stumbled backwards and fell to the floor. On the floor, she released a sigh and put her hands over her face.

"Get a hold of yourself, Sharon. They were just birds, and you just forgot to lock the window," she said to herself, trying to ease her tension.

She got up from the floor and went to take a bath. She really needed one.

At that moment, JJ stood right outside her hostel building, just a few meters away from the window. He walked back to his car and dialed Addicus on his radio phone.

"Any developments, JJ?" Addicus asked from the other line.

"Yes sir, there is. She seems to be getting close to a certain local man. They spent the entirety of today in each other's company and were intimate a few times," JJ said.

"Good, good. Continue monitoring her and when you notice that her affection for this man has grown, let me know," Addicus instructed.

"Of course, Sir! But, why do we have to wait for that? Why not just get rid of her now and make her pay for cutting off your hand so she doesn't get away again?" JJ asked because he didn't understand his boss's plan.

***He had found Sharon almost a year ago when she first left San Jose and went to Santiago, but Addicus ordered him to just watch her and not attack, and he was following her all over Costa Rica, from Florencia to Naranjo, and now, Puntarenas.***

"I want to hurt this woman. I want to see her suffer for everything she's done to me. Torturing and killing her won't do the trick. I have to hit her where it hurts the most; her heart. She's been very clever, never staying too long in one place so she doesn't get close to anyone, but now, she's slipped, exactly how I expected. At this moment, that man she's with is the only good thing that she has, and I'm going to take it away from her, and then, I'll take her too," He told JJ.

His plan was completely sinister. He really was a **monster** fully intent on destroying Sharon completely.

"Ok, Sir. I'll keep an eye on her and update you when anything happens," JJ said and hung up the phone.

Addicus also hung up his phone and picked up a photo of Sharon and placed it into a lit candle on his desk.

"You should have kept running," he said to the picture and watched it burn into ash.