“T-twenty...”
Ella forgot how to breathe when Constantine’s head made that sharp turn. Tama ba ang nasabi niya? She couldn’t tell. Her veins were suddenly pulsing everywhere as her fingers dug the wooden door covering her nakedness.
Bakit parang kumulo ang tubig sa sahig na inaapakan niya? Wasn’t water at two in the morning supposed to be cold? Especially in a place like they were in-- walang heater. ‘Dng it.’
“I-I think I didn’t hear what you said, Pea.”
She bit her lips and cursed inside her head. The brute was looking at her like she had grown another head and every inch his gaze was landing on felt like it got splash by coal.
When he finally took that first step with his wallet in his hand and the phone on the bed, the only thing that registered to Ella was how his muscles gracefu
