Lahat ng Kabanata ng Irresistible Temptations : Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

Asher gently set me down on his bed as he leaned back on his ankles and stared up into my face, but he didn't touch me."Are you okay?" He whispered.Am I okay?! No, I am most certainly not okay! Him and Jake both just completely humiliated me in front of everyone. I'm angry. I'm embarrassed. But most of all, I'm hurt! I just lightly nodded. "I'm fine." My voice was quiet and dry.He raised his hand and I flinched when he touched my stinging cheek."I'm so sorry," he stated but stopped to look me dead in the eyes."It's a little too late for apologies now, don't you think?" I stared right back at him, not feeling an ounce of remorse.He lightly nodded. “Yeah, I guess you're right."Asher stood up away from me and paced around the room, running his hands over his face.I didn't know what to say. What do I say? Everything I wanted to say earlier had fled my mind and only anger filled me now."Why did you come tonight?" Asher finally asked, spinning to look down at me.I scoffed. "Harpe

"Dillon!!" I heard Mom scream.So I picked up my pace down the stairs and found Dillon holding Asher against the wall by his throat."Stop it!!" I nearly jumped on Dillon's back and he was in such a rage that his reflexes took over and he elbowed me right in the face, which made me land with a cry and a thud on the hard floor beneath us."Dillon! What have you done?!" Mom exclaimed as she came over to me.Dillon finally let Asher go when he saw what he had done."Layla!" Dillon came toward me but I swatted his hand away."You son of a bitch!" Asher barked, coming to my aid as he pushed Dillon out of the way."Don't touch my sister!" Dillon growled, grabbing Asher and pulling him backwards.And I turned crazy!"Stop it right now!!" My voice overpowered the room. "If you touch him again, Dillon, it will be the last thing you ever do!""Layla!" Mom scolded me but I ignored her as I got to my feet and shoved Dillon away from Asher."I'm tired of this! I don't know what your problem is wit

SEVEN YEARS LATERI hadn't seen or heard a single word from Asher Creed in seven years. Seven long, grueling, lonely years, and when Harper or her mom would bring him up, I politely asked them to change the subject. So, of course, after asking them a few times they learned that Asher was still a touchy subject around me so they stopped talking about him altogether.The only way I knew anything about him and his life was over the internet. I didn't get much other than the professional photo's from his skateboarding career and a few shots from the paparazzi. Asher kept his life a secret. He didn't even have social media. He was like a ghost in the celebrity world. Nobody even knew where he came from, other than his managers and agents, of course, but his fans were clueless about the details of his life.I tortured myself quite often when I sat in my office all alone in the evening hours and searched for Asher online. At this very moment, I was staring at the most recent photo the papara

I'm not going to turn around.Nope. Not going to do that. Maybe if I don't turn around then he won't really be there.But then I turned around.Asher Creed stood right in front of me with his piercing grey eyes and his overwhelming scent of sandalwood.He looked even more glorious now than I ever remember. How is it legal to be this attractive?!"You look amazing," he finally said with a deeper than normal voice as his eyes traveled down to my lips before meeting my eyes again.My brain wasn't functioning. No words were coming out and I was frozen to my spot."Layla? You okay?" This came from Mark behind me and I finally blinked.I saw how Asher was sizing Mark up before he stuck his hand out for Mark to shake."Hey. I'm Asher. The bride's brother."Mark took his hand. "Mark. I'm..."I cut him off. "My boyfriend."What?! I finally had the courage to speak and those were the words that came out?!Asher eyed me suspiciously but then smiled at Mark. Mark thankfully didn't correct me and

I was awake and up before anyone else, so I took this time to go for a nice walk through the woods. I noticed a nice gravel path going into the woods last night and wondered where it went.So I ventured out bright and early and found that it led far back into the woods to the base of the mountain where a bridge met my path. I went over the bridge and hiked a bit further and that's when I stopped dead in my tracks and stared at the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.There was a little water fall coming out of the rock face and into a small pool of crystal clear water and when I stepped closer, that's when I saw the water was steaming.So of course I stick my hand in it and smile when I feel that the water is warm. Must be one of the hot springs the brochure in our bedroom wrote about.And then an idea came to me.I pulled my phone out and saw that it was still really early and that there was no way anyone was up yet. So I did the unthinkable and got undressed behind a large pine tre