Chapter Ten

The rest of the class was pretty uneventful, thankfully, and I didn’t need to cross his path another time since I was partnered with Ruth. She seemed to know far more about hand-to-hand combat than me. I was yet to get kicked out or even remotely in trouble, but I would find a way.

“Dude, I still can’t believe the hot guard choked you out in front of everyone, it was insane” She hit my shoulder as we walked towards our rooms after Dinner and I rolled my eyes, annoyed that we were talking about this again.

“Ruth, we’ve been over this” My hands came out in front of me. “He’s probably not even hot. I mean, he has a mask on for god sake”

“But that’s what makes him hot” She nodded at me. “The mystery”

“Look, we just don’t talk about him, okay? He’s a worth—”

“Worthless piece of meat that preys on anything he can sink his teeth into. Yes, I know. You’ve said it many times but it still doesn’t skip over how attractive he is!” She stood in front of me, stopping me in my tracks before I reached my room. “Are you even listening to me?”

In all honesty, not really. I had other things on my mind.

“Yes, but I’d really love to go to bed. I’m tired, and besides you’ve already told me about this test thing that we have tomorrow that I’d rather not totally fuck up, okay?” I tried to smile at her even though her nagging was getting mildly annoying.

Her eyebrow rose at me. “Thought you wanted to get kicked out?”

“Yes!” I clasped my hands together. “I do, but I’ll do it on my own terms—not have some test tell me that I’m too thick to be here.”

“Long as you’re not going to pose a threat” Her eyes narrowed and me and she nodded. “Fine, I’ll see you tomorrow!” Her voice was chirpy and getting on my nerves as she moved out of the way, heading towards her room which was coincidentally right next to mine.

“Bye Ruth” My hand waved at her.

“Have sweet dreams of that worthless piece of meat!” Her voice yelled to me and I quickly hushed her, running to my door. “If I hear banging on the wall, I’ll kill you!!”

“Really?” I spoke under my breath and entered my room, closing the door behind me and sprawling out on the bed, stretching into a starfish and letting out a big sigh, finally relaxing and being alone for the first time today.

“A piece of meat?!” A voice came from beside me and I let out a big scream, jumping up and into the middle of the room. My hand flew to my heart which was now beating uncontrollably as I stared at the boy who had apparently been sat on my chair since I came in.

“Oh my god...” I trailed off, catching my breath. “You scared me!!”

“If that’s your scared scream I’d love to hear what your pleasure scream sounds like” He cracked his knuckles and placed his hands behind his head, showing off his muscles.

“How long have you been sitting there?” My sweaty hand ran through my hair anxiously.

“Longer than you’d like”

“Great” I shook my head and sat back down on the bed. “Is this going to be a regular thing? Because I’d like a little forewarning before you decide to pop in and pay me a visit.”

“Where’s the excitement in that, Isabella?” He purred beside me and stood up, walking over to the wall and leaning on it so he was directly in front of me. “Did you have fun today?”

“No I did not have fun today. I don’t want to talk about what happened today, and I just want to be clear that it won’t happen again. Okay?” My finger pointed to him.

“Did you not enjoy it?”

“Enjoy choking? No I most absolutely did not” I stared at the floor, waiting for his snarky response.

“Do you want me to teach you how to enjoy it?” He came away from the wall, kneeling down in front of me and looking into my eyes. “It’s something that can be used for pain, but also pleasure”

His hand gently brushed past my knee, sending goosebumps all over my body at his mere touch. I quickly placed my own hand on his, shoving it away before things got out of hand. “I’d rather not”

Taking a deep breath in, he chuckled. “The smell of arousal coming from between your legs says otherwise”

I widened my eyes as my cheeks shone a bright red with embarrassment. There was no denying that I was turned on, but he didn’t need to know that. “Oh, don’t flatter yourself”

“I can show you proof if you want...” He trailed off and brought his hand closer in between my legs. Hesitating for a moment, I quickly caught his hand and bit down on my lip as he raised his eyebrows at me. “Afraid you can’t handle it?”

I brought my face down to his, smirking at him. “Oh, I know that I can handle it…which is why you’re not going to. It would please you too much, and we can’t have you being happy, can we?”

He made a fist with his hand and pulled away, shaking his head. “You’re tough, I’ll give you that. But even the strongest walls break, you just need to find the weak spot”

Sitting forward, I levelled myself with him. “This wall has no weak spots”

His hands held up in surrender and he stood up, shrugging his shoulders. “Alright, you win. I won’t touch you until you ask me—” He stopped, correcting himself, “no, until you beg me for it.”

“It’ll be a cold day in hell when I beg you for anything” I spat at him and he let out a menacing laugh, shaking his head.

“I’ll see you tomorrow, Isabella. I look forward to personally taking you for your test, where we’ll be alone…in a soundproof room” He walked over to the door and clicked it open, winking at me. “See you then”

And with that he shut the door, leaving me wanting more.