My mind went haywire. Shock, rage, warmth and… desire shot through my veins like a wildfire. Pushing against his hard chest, I attempted to snatch my lips from the capture of his scorching ones, but he only deepened the kiss. Grabbing my wrists, he placed them above my head with one hand, while the other went to run over my body with freedom, raising a painful tug in my abdomen.

“Only mine.”

An unintentional moan left my mouth as he sucked my lower lip into his mouth with ferocity. My body was on fire. His free hand ran down my waist to my thigh. Sneaking behind, he grabbed my butt, getting another gasp from me.

He took this chance to enter his tongue in my mouth, devouring me. Just as his hot tongue touched mine, a jolt of pleasure ran through me. My body hummed into delight. My eyes closed on their own as I kissed him with equal urgency and desperateness.

I’ve never been kissed like this. Never this deep, rough, and intense. My hands struggled into his hold. This time not to get away, but to pull him closer. To feel him. It wasn’t enough. I wanted more. I needed more.

“Ace,” I managed to whisper out in between his earth-shattering kisses. And he understood as he released my hands.

There was no going back. I clung to him like I was falling, and he was the only thing to grab on in this whole world. Molding our lips around each other, we got tangled in a momentum of want and desire.

Another ring of my phone reverberated across the room. At first, neither of us acknowledged it, but then senses started to kick in my brain.

Disbelief and shame fell over me as I realized what I just did.

How could I do this?

Pushing him away, I grabbed my phone and ran out of the room, not waiting to see his expression.

“Emerald, wait!” he called out behind me, but I was already out of the room. I heard him coming after me, but I didn’t stop.

I ran and kept running until I was safe in the four walls of the elevator. Clutching my chest, that was still pounding from his touches and kisses, I leaned against one of the walls and closed my eyes. A tear slipped down my cheek.

I cheated on Warner. Though it was unintentional, though I didn’t love him and soon was going to reveal it before him, it didn’t justify my actions. I did wrong to him. I did wrong to the person who was always there for me.

Why couldn’t I control myself? Why couldn’t I just push him away? Because I can’t. I can’t resist him. I never could.