My hands went to cover my face as he pulled me away from his chest so that he could see me.

I let out a small huff of annoyance "Why do you make it your mission to get me so riled up?"

"Same reason it has always been since the night I met you." He stated before explaining "When you give it out to me, your doe eyes go wider for a second and then your nose crinkles. Then a beautiful blush covers your cheeks and highlights your freckles even more. It is breathtaking."

I could not keep up my act of annoyance after that speech, so I just cuddled into his chest again. His muscles arms wrapped about my body instantly and kept me trained to him.

A voice that was so soft yet so deep made my head move up to see him as he cupped my face in his calloused hands.

"Meeting you was like going through the looking glass." He revealed, "Nothing has been the same since."

"In a good way?" I whispered as I stared down at him.

"In the best fucking way."

Grinning, I poked his chest playfully "I know that you are the Alice and Wonderland superfan, but I thought that phrase was meant to describe the world around a person changing."

Stone's lip twitched before his gravelly voice filled the room "Drizella, you are my world."

"I still cannot get over how you like the Lewis Caroll book." I admitted before I explained, "I never thought that you would like crazy and whimsical."

Heat touched every part of my skin as his gaze trailed over me.

"I love crazy." He said as his hands rested on the back of my thighs "I love whimsical."

We stayed in the room for a further fifteen minutes, both agreeing that Lana and Brennan needed more time to sort things over. We were in our own little bubble for a significant amount of time, yet it seemed not enough.

It was not our best idea to have such a heated fifteen minutes in a house filled with other people and with me leaving with Lana straight after it.

It left Stone with a problem. More accurately a huge problem.

Leaving him in the room with a triumphing grin, I descended the stairs and found Lana waiting.

She pointed to me as I approached her "Ella, what is that on your neck?"

"A mosquito bite." I lied.

She bit her lip to stop smiling "It is massive."

"It was a large mosquito." I shrugged while covering my face with my hair "A very large annoying mosquito."

Chapter Forty-Four

Chapter Forty-Four

I had a theory that dreams revealed our truest desires. My theory was heavily inspired by Freud's idea of wish fulfilment, only there was a little less sex involved.

All my dreams recently had been about sex with Stone.

A warm mouth nuzzling into the side of my neck woke me from my slumber.