"What the hell do you think you're doing?!"

Kris quickly withdrew his hand, clearing his throat "I thought I heard something,'

"So you thought that gave you the right to just enter the room? This is not your house, Kris." she fumed, her voice low but still laced with fury.

Kris raised his hand in surrender. "You're right. I'm sorry. I got curious, but I shouldn't have tried to enter. It won't happen again."

"Yes, it won't happen again because you're getting out of this house right now!"

Kris was taken aback by the sheer anger in her voice despite the fact that she was speaking in a low tone, and how her voice was shaking. And once again, he saw the fear in her eyes. He took a step closer. "Thalassa, I said I was sorry. I-"

"Why can't you just leave me alone, Kris? Did you have to invade my life here too?"

Kris could only stare back at her in shock. "Thalassa, why are so agitated simply because I tried to enter this room?

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What didn't she want him to see? He stared at her, waiting for an answer. An answer that never came. Because in the next moment, Thalassa did something that caught him off guard.

She lunged at him, grabbed his head between her hands, and crashed her lips against his in a furious kiss.

Kris's shock lasted only a few seconds before his body responded to the familiar heat of Thalassa's body and the taste of her lips. With a groan, he shoved his fingers in her hair and kissed her back with equal hunger and fervor.noveldrama

The kiss was as messy as it was intense, their mouths open, tongues tangling in a delicious battle for dominance as she pressed him against the wall.

Her body pressed into his injured shoulder, but Kris barely felt the ache. The pleasure of the kiss was too exquisite for him to care. Heat surged through him, instantly hardening his dick in a rush of need.

He felt like he was having one of those erotic dreams he always had of Thalassa, and yet the firmness of her mouth told him that this was as real as it could get, despite how unbelievable it felt.

Just as his hand slid from her hair down to the curve of her hips, she abruptly tore her mouth away from his.

"No. No." She shook her head firmly, trying to pull away.

But Kris didn't let her go, wrapping his arm around her back to keep her body pressed to his.

"Please, let go of me, Kris. We can't do this," she pleaded, tugging again, but Kris held firm.

"Why can't we, Thalassa?" he asked breathlessly, his eyes blazing with desire.

"Because I can't," she whispered, equally breathless. "There can't be anything between us after everything. This can't happen."

Kris's heart clenched painfully as he gazed into her eyes. "I know I've hurt you a great deal, Thalassa, and I'm ready to spend the rest of my life making up for it. But how long are you going to keep punishing me? How long do you want me to keep loving in this smiley? Why hold yourself back when you feel the same way I do?"

"I don't," Thalassa gritted out, but her voice lacked the usual bits.

"You don't?" Kris smiled bitterly. "Then why did you kiss me?" "Because..."

"Because you want me," Kris interrupted, his voice a whisper as he gazed into her eyes. "You can deny it all you want, but I see it in your eyes. You still want me just as I've never stopped wanting you. I felt it in the way you kissed me. I feel it in the way your heart is racing like mine?

Slowly, he removed his arm from her back, expecting her to pull away. When she didn't, he gently placed his hand on her cheek.

"Tell me right now that you don't want me, Thalassa. Tell me you don't feel anything for me, and I'll leave. Tell me you don't want me to make love to you right now."