Episode 18: Calling me a babe

PART THREE

Stella's quick temper, already taxed to its limits by Luke's offensive familiarity, simply erupted. Reacting on instinct alone, her hand flew up and she slapped Dior Harlequin so hard across one cheekbone her fingers stung like mad. 'No man calls me a tramp!' she bit out in furious condemnation.

 

 

As the livid marks of that slap sprang up across one slashing cheekbone, Dior stared back at her with truly stunning green eyes. Even though Stella instantly knew that she had gone too far, she was far too upset to acknowledge her mistake. 'And your conceited Grace-ego of a cousin deserves the same!' she launched in defiant addition.

 

 

'Who does that little squirt think he is? Calling me a babe, and smirking and pawing my hair like I'm some kind of toy to be played with! And how dare you to behave in such a way as to give him the impression that I would stoop to be something as utterly disgusting as your woman?' 'Disgusting...?'

 

 

Dior gritted, not quite levelly, eyes now as scorching a gold as the heart of a bonfire. 'Yes, disgusting!' Stella repeated with a feeling shudder. 'Women do not belong like objects to men—' 'I could persuade you to belong to me,' Dior declared in a wrathful growl. Stella breathed in so deep on that staggering claim she was vaguely surprised that she didn't explode. She studied him with scornful green eyes.

 

 

'What with? A Stone Age hammer? Because let me tell you, knocking me out and dragging me by force back to the family cave would be the only way!' Without the slightest warning, Dior reached for her with powerful hands that brooked no refusal.

 

 

He brought his mouth crashing down hard on hers. Shock paralyzed Stella. But a far deeper level of shock awaited her. When that wide, sensual mouth possessed hers with hungry force, it was as if the world came to a sudden screeching halt and sent her flying off into the sun. The surge of heat Dior ignited could have burned up an entire planet.

 

 

Stella's head swam, all rational thought suspended beneath that shattering shower of instant sensation. As he hauled her into a crushing and deeply satisfying embrace, her blood pounded madly through her pliant body. He tasted like water after a long summer drought. He created a thirst she had never known she had.

 

 

She was so hooked on that electrifying excitement that she clung like a vine to a tree, moaning low in her throat as his tongue invaded the moist sensitivity of her mouth in an erotic invasion that drove her wild.

 

 

Dior dragged her back from him, his breathing fractured, his eyes blazing over her with a primitive satisfaction he couldn't hide. 'I wouldn't need to use force with you, Stella. You'd come back to the family cave like a little lamb,' he contended thickly.

 

 

As the haze of intoxicating passion evaporated, Stella gazed up into his darkly handsome features, aghast. Simultaneously, Dior stiffened, veiled his eyes and set her back from him.

 

 

 

 

A boiling wave of hot embarrassment enveloped Stella. She couldn't believe that what had happened had happened. She couldn't believe that she could have felt what he had made her feel when she hadn't wanted to feel anything. And the silence lay there, thick and treacherous as a swamp that neither of them wanted to risk trying to cross.

 

 

'I... I...' Stella began unevenly, suddenly eager to give both of them an acceptable excuse. 'I shouldn't have slapped you. I made you upset—' 'Greek men don't like having their masculinity challenged.'

 

 

Dior loosed a sardonic laugh and dealt her a bleak glance. 'But I kissed you because I wanted to. As you said to me, tell it like it is.' Taken aback by that blunt acknowledgment that the attraction playing havoc with her self-discipline was not solely her problem, Stella gazed at him in frank perplexity.

 

 

Then she swiftly turned her head away. 'Naturally, we won't be repeating the experiment,' Dior completed with flat finality. Stella's delicate profile tautened. Although he was only stating the obvious, only saying what she would have said herself, upset mortification still engulfed her. Conscious that she was being warned off, she felt humiliated.

 

 

He had kissed her! Yet he still evidently saw a need to depress any foolish ideas she might be developing. Who the heck did he think he was? Is Mister Irresistible? Yes, she answered for herself. And that blazing confidence wasn't vanity, she acknowledged with driven reluctance. He had it all. The looks, the money, the power.

 

 

How often did Dior Harlequin meet with rejection? How much more often must he meet with blatant encouragement? But still, Stella felt the need to defend herself. 'I lashed out because you were extremely rude—' 'I don't wish to discuss this any further,' Dior interposed harshly. 'I'm not myself today.

 

 

My reactions are on a very short fuse.' But in the space of a heartbeat, he had blown Stella's belief that she wasn't a very sexual person right out of the water. She could only cringe when she recalled the almost irresistible temptation to snatch him greedily back into her arms.

 

 

She had never dreamt that any man could rouse her to that level of excitement, hunger, and craving. That Dior Harlequin had that power shook her to her very depths. The limousine drove up the steep road at a stately crawl, other vehicles now falling in behind to follow in their wake

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“A stone age hammer”... hahahaha.. u got me LOL

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1 Episode 1: He's getting a witch
2 Episode 2: Murmuring with satisfaction
3 Episode 4: Get off that phone now
4 Episode 5: I'm afraid I can't trust your word
5 Episode 6: Free will
6 Episode 7: I have no desire for a company
7 Episode 8: That wasn't his only problem
8 Episode 9: Put them on
9 Episode 10: An adventure
10 Episode 11: You have betrayed my trust
11 Episode 12: You're a very convincing liar
12 Episode 13: Passion and Sensuality
13 Episode 14: Oh, dear heaven
14 Episode 15: 'Who's the woman
15 Episode 16: I don't like to be boss around
16 Episode 17: He's got a taste
17 Episode 18: Calling me a babe
18 Episode 19: I hate this
19 Episode 20: What on earth was the matter with her
20 Episode 21: Quite extraordinary
21 Episode 22: Did you have a happy childhood
22 Episode 23: Don't you realize that
23 Episode 24: My turn
24 Episode 25: So sweet
25 Episode 26: She couldn't believe
26 Episode 27: Can't talk now
27 Episode 28: It didn't seem to bother him
28 Episode 29: What's wrong
29 Episode 30:
30 Episode 31: Is Grace still employed?
31 Episode 32: I’m going in tonight
32 Episode 33: It's not Okay
33 Episode 34: Who the heck do you think you are to say that to me?
34 Episode 35: I'm not backing off
35 Episode 36: You belong with me
36 Episode 37: You're not supposed to know me!
37 Episode 38: Stop running away
38 Episode 39: I made it my business to know
39 Episode 40: I think I might be pregnant
40 Episode 41: Can I go out on the balcony
41 Episode 42: Trust me
42 Episode 43: I don't want to be your mistress
43 Episode 44: I don't care who I see
44 Episode 45: We're going to be parents
45 Episode 46: What's wrong with tonight?
46 Episode 47: I don't want your money
47 Episode 48: You do deserve her
48 Episode 49: I wouldn't have you as a gift
49 Episode 50: A little amusement
50 Episode 51: One month's notice
51 Episode 52: I saw you kissing him
52 Episode 53: Do...do you love her?
53 Episode 54: Do you love her (2)
54 Episode 55: I make a very bitter enemy
55 Episode 56: You look just gorgeous
56 Episode 57: I wish he'd met you
57 Episode 58: What's wrong?
58 Episode 59: I promise you
59 Episode 60: To make you welcome
60 Episode 61: You are so perfect
61 Episode 62: It's our wedding night
62 Episode 63: She hadn't liked that
63 Episode 64: Then what?
64 Episode 65: Lack of discretion?
65 Episode 66: What do you expect?
66 Episode 67: Don't be slow
67 Episode 68: Would I do that?
68 Episode 69: Rational
69 Episode 70: I don't want you anymore!
70 Episode 71: No! No way was it wrong!
71 Episode 72: What on earth are we doing here?
72 Episode 73: She's a nice person
73 Episode 74: I adore you
74 Episode 75: That's what I'm here for
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Updated 74 Episodes

1
Episode 1: He's getting a witch
2
Episode 2: Murmuring with satisfaction
3
Episode 4: Get off that phone now
4
Episode 5: I'm afraid I can't trust your word
5
Episode 6: Free will
6
Episode 7: I have no desire for a company
7
Episode 8: That wasn't his only problem
8
Episode 9: Put them on
9
Episode 10: An adventure
10
Episode 11: You have betrayed my trust
11
Episode 12: You're a very convincing liar
12
Episode 13: Passion and Sensuality
13
Episode 14: Oh, dear heaven
14
Episode 15: 'Who's the woman
15
Episode 16: I don't like to be boss around
16
Episode 17: He's got a taste
17
Episode 18: Calling me a babe
18
Episode 19: I hate this
19
Episode 20: What on earth was the matter with her
20
Episode 21: Quite extraordinary
21
Episode 22: Did you have a happy childhood
22
Episode 23: Don't you realize that
23
Episode 24: My turn
24
Episode 25: So sweet
25
Episode 26: She couldn't believe
26
Episode 27: Can't talk now
27
Episode 28: It didn't seem to bother him
28
Episode 29: What's wrong
29
Episode 30:
30
Episode 31: Is Grace still employed?
31
Episode 32: I’m going in tonight
32
Episode 33: It's not Okay
33
Episode 34: Who the heck do you think you are to say that to me?
34
Episode 35: I'm not backing off
35
Episode 36: You belong with me
36
Episode 37: You're not supposed to know me!
37
Episode 38: Stop running away
38
Episode 39: I made it my business to know
39
Episode 40: I think I might be pregnant
40
Episode 41: Can I go out on the balcony
41
Episode 42: Trust me
42
Episode 43: I don't want to be your mistress
43
Episode 44: I don't care who I see
44
Episode 45: We're going to be parents
45
Episode 46: What's wrong with tonight?
46
Episode 47: I don't want your money
47
Episode 48: You do deserve her
48
Episode 49: I wouldn't have you as a gift
49
Episode 50: A little amusement
50
Episode 51: One month's notice
51
Episode 52: I saw you kissing him
52
Episode 53: Do...do you love her?
53
Episode 54: Do you love her (2)
54
Episode 55: I make a very bitter enemy
55
Episode 56: You look just gorgeous
56
Episode 57: I wish he'd met you
57
Episode 58: What's wrong?
58
Episode 59: I promise you
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Episode 60: To make you welcome
60
Episode 61: You are so perfect
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Episode 62: It's our wedding night
62
Episode 63: She hadn't liked that
63
Episode 64: Then what?
64
Episode 65: Lack of discretion?
65
Episode 66: What do you expect?
66
Episode 67: Don't be slow
67
Episode 68: Would I do that?
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Episode 69: Rational
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Episode 70: I don't want you anymore!
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Episode 71: No! No way was it wrong!
71
Episode 72: What on earth are we doing here?
72
Episode 73: She's a nice person
73
Episode 74: I adore you
74
Episode 75: That's what I'm here for

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