Chapter 10: Closeness

I knew I was doing something crazy, because how could I be so bold and daring with someone I obviously didn't like? But here was the competitive Aitana that I didn't want to lose and if this time I was going to do it, it had to be big.

So, determined, I kissed him with all the desire to reproduce with his help, even though I really didn't like the idea very much. I needed to bend him and if I had to use the weapons that lust gave women, I would do it.

Helmut tries to push me away and I cling to his body, as if I were a polar bear clinging to his tree. I was to seduce him, and I didn't care that he was basically the person I disliked most on earth.

It was only when I was running out of air, that I turned away from the man with a blank stare. So, I slowly backed away from him, waiting for him to say something that would hurt me or fuel my desire for him to be the man I had been made to imagine when we announced our engagement.

"You're crazy" he whispers with his lips swollen from the