Chapter 183: Nervous and Expectant
When Benjamin leaned in to kiss her, Lily instinctively held her breath and shyly closed her eyes.
Her heartbeat suddenly lost its normal rhythm, and her hands hanging at her sides clenched tightly.
Feeling Benjamin's hot breath brush against her trembling lips, Lily's heart beat faster and faster.
Nervous, yet expectant.
The kiss paused just a second before landing on her lips.
The next second—
Changing direction, Benjamin's lips avoided hers and landed beside her ear.
Lily's heart tightened slightly, a hint of bitterness rising within.
She bit her lip hard, trying to suppress the disappointment welling up inside.
She wasn't the woman he liked. It was normal that his kiss didn't belong to her.
But even knowing this, she couldn't help her eyes reddening.
Benjamin either didn't know or didn't care about Lily's emotions.
His lips parted slightly, taking her delicate earlobe into his mouth.
Wet heat swept over.
A strong current rapidly spread through her entire body from where he touched.
Lily couldn't hold back a soft moan.
Her body's reaction was too intense. Everywhere Benjamin touched was like wildfire, burning away her rational thinking.
She forgot her sadness.
Her heart and eyes were filled only with Benjamin, who was stirring up a storm within her.
She was like a small boat, carried by Benjamin, rising and falling in sensations and emotions still unfamiliar to her.
After drifting for who knows how long, the waves gradually subsided and finally calmed.
By then, Lily's legs could no longer stand. Her hands clung to his arms, her flushed, sweat-dampened face pressed against his chest.
Like a fish just pulled from the sea, her lips parted slightly, breathing hard.
As her drifting consciousness slowly returned, hearing Benjamin's sexy low breathing, Lily's heart beat faster and faster.
In this moment, all her heartache vanished.
He didn't like her, but liking her body was also a kind of liking, wasn't it?
While Lily was lost in thought, her waist tightened as Benjamin lifted her up, facing him.
Before Lily could cry out again, she bit her own lip.
Her face turned even redder.
Not daring to look at Benjamin anymore, she buried her head against his neck, obedient and compliant.
Benjamin was very satisfied with Lily's obedience. Holding her, he walked toward the bedroom.
The night breeze blew in through the unclosed window but failed to dispel the heat in the bedroom.
The two people on the bed were entangled together like conjoined twins.
The heat climbed higher and higher, rising and rising, not falling for a long time!
Over an hour later.
Benjamin moved away from Lily and reached up to turn on the light.
Leaning against the headboard, he fumbled for the cigarette pack and lighter from the nightstand.
He shook out a cigarette, brought it to his lips and bit the filter, pulled it out, and casually tossed the pack aside.
The blue flame danced. Benjamin tilted his head slightly and lit the cigarette.
Once lit, Benjamin took a deep drag. His Adam's apple bobbed slightly as thin smoke slowly escaped from his mouth.
Through the swirling smoke, his eyes narrowed, making him look dangerously sexy and alluring.
Lily had just recovered from the intense trembling and opened her eyes to see this scene.
Her heart instantly skipped a beat.
He looked so tempting like this.
Her heart accelerated uncontrollably for him.
Her gaze grew increasingly infatuated.
Until Benjamin suddenly looked up at her.
The moment their eyes met, Lily immediately looked away in embarrassment.
Extremely flustered.
"Mr. White, I should go now."
Lily's voice was hoarse from overuse.
She didn't dare look up. After speaking, she propped up her aching body and sat up on the bed.
"Okay."
Benjamin responded with a low sound.
But his gaze didn't leave her.
Lily noticed.
Sitting there, she didn't know what to do with her hands and feet.
She had no right to ask him not to look.
In the end, she could only endure the shyness and, under Benjamin's gaze, cover herself while reaching for her clothes on the floor.
With her back to him, she fumbled with trembling hands to button her clothes.
Benjamin watched the girl sitting on the edge of the bed, her whole body showing a beautiful pink flush.
That shy innocence of someone new to intimacy—she played it very well.
It would indeed make men like her.
His Adam's apple moved up and down. Benjamin had just calmed down, but now felt stirrings again.