"I want to hit you with one of those prehistoric stick things with the spikes." I ranted "The caveman club thing that I do not know the name of. I want to bash your stupid face in."

He leaned closer so his nose brushed against my cheek until he moved to my ear and huskily replied "Then why are you blushing like crazy and you are biting your lip right now."

Gulping, I continued to try and slow down my breathing but nothing seemed to be working.

His possessiveness and dominance should not have affected me in such a way. Not when I was meant to be trying my best to push him away.

Finally, I managed a reply "You are pressed up against me. It is cheating. I can not think properly."

His head moved back so he could study my face. His expression could only be described as desperate as his gaze roamed every freckle and every detail of my face. Almost as if he had not seen me in years.

"Medusa." His deep voice was barely a whisper "I belong to you. Just like you belong to me. Why are you fighting that?"

I shook my head in reply to argue against what he was saying. The thought behind my action was that if I shook hard enough the butterflies would stop fluttering around in my stomach.

"You are forgetting something."

"What?" I asked, peering up at him.

"I am an Ella-expert." He reached out like he needed to touch me as he affirmed "I know when you are lying and you are right now. If I really thought you wanted space or for us to end for a while then I would give that to you."

"Would you?" I said because I was not convinced he would.

"I would wait any amount of time for you." Stone rasped out "If that what was I thought you truly wanted then I would. No matter if staying away from you would kill me in the process."

I did not deny what he was saying because I could not.

Instead, I tried to move the conversation on in hopes that he would not notice "I asked you for space yesterday and it was hardly five hours before you showed up again. How is that space?"

"I have tried doing things your way but you do not play fair, Ella." His voice grew deeper as he continued "You are walking around like everything is fine. Like you are fine when I know better. You show up at school like nothing has happened. You avoid me. Then I find you opening up to him."

"Chase and I were just talking."

"You can not expect me to sit back and watch that." He spoke in his gravelly tone "I can not do that and I will not do that."