All Chapters of He Gave My Bed To His Mistress, So I Took Everything : Chapter 31 - Chapter 32

VIVIAN'S POVThe world didn't stop. It just tilted, spinning on an axis I hadn't known existed. One moment I was listening to his grandmother's story, my hand resting in Sebastian's, a familiar, practiced weight. The next, his face was close, his breath a warm whisper against my skin, and then his lips were on mine.It wasn't like the staged pecks we sometimes gave for a camera, the quick, dry brushes of skin that were all part of the performance. This was different. This was a collision. The shock of it traveled from my mouth straight down my spine, setting every nerve ending alight. For a second my body didn't know how to respond. It froze, a deer caught in the blinding headlights of an oncoming car. My mind, which had spent three years building walls around this very possibility, went utterly, terrifyingly blank.Three years. It had been three years since Nathaniel, since a man's touch had been anything but a threat or a transaction. I told myself that was why my body was reacting