Chapter 252 - It was a mistake

And indeed she was starved; her hands went around his neck and pulled him closer, prying open his lips as she kissed him deeper. Leo was shocked, but he didn't have the time to think, his hands went around her automatically and pulled her close deepening the kiss; they didn't know how hungry they were for each other until she was up against the car, her legs around his waists.

They were panting as they ravaged each other's mouths, Claire's eyes watered as she kissed him back with every emotion she had piled up for months. She didn't know kissing someone would feel so good and ye so painful, God, she wanted him; she needed him badly. What she was doing was wrong but she could not stop herself, not now.

Her hands started unbuttoning his shirt, right in the compound against the car. Her face was flushed and her breath still raspy, she would just do it and get it over with. He was someone else's; she couldn't have him forever, so she would let herself be selfish today. Leo was shocked by her action and he quickly held her hands;

''Claire, '' His breath was hot and his eyes were filled with l.u.s.t and desire but that didn't mean that he didn't have any atom of reasoning, he couldn't let her do something she didn't want to do, she might have been influenced by alcohol, so she was not thinking straight. Suddenly as though reasoning came over her, she stopped, her eyes looked up at him and she quickly got down on her feet.

''Oh my god, what have I done?'' Her face looked so scared as it paled from every color;

''I'm so sorry… '' she said and quickly ran into the house. Leo ran after her but she was faster and she locked the door before he could get inside.

''Claire please let's talk. ''

''No, , I'm so sorry, it was the alcohol, I'm so sorry, it won't happen again. ''

She cried as she trembled on the other side. What did she just do? Was she about to have s.e.x with Leo?

Her hands gripped her hair when the realization of what she had done came over her.

''I know… I just want to talk, please… ''

''Please, just go, I don't want to talk to you. '' She trembled and quickly ran to her room, locking the door behind her.

Leo heard the loud bang of her door and his head fell against the front door. After sometime he turned and walked to the car leaving her house.

Throughout the ride, Leo couldn't get the kiss out of his mind. He still remembered how her lips tasted, like alcohol; he had kissed Hazel a couple of times but he had never felt anything like what he felt today.

He still remembered how her fingers felt against the scalp of his head as she brushed her hands through it and pulled at the locks of hair, how she kissed him deeply and desperately; like she was starving.

It was too intense to ignore, he knew what it felt like to kiss someone you didn't have feelings for because he had kissed Hazel, but how Claire kissed him… was out of this world.

That was why he wanted to talk to her.

What if she loved him?

His heart pounded against his chest as he thought about it. What if she liked him? He bit his lower lip tightly as he tried to think straight.

She wasn't drunk, he was sure about it because she walked herself to the car and they chatted normally all through, so why did she kiss him?

Did she love him?

Leo couldn't help the shock on his face, his heart was racing too fast that he felt it might explode any minute. If she liked him, why then did she refuse him?

Leo's brows knitted with worry. If she liked him, why did she not tell him all these while even when he was going out with Hazel?

She let him be with someone he didn't love while she liked him?

Leo couldn't even understand it; he wanted to turn around and go back and ask her all these but he stopped himself. She wouldn't even listen to him now; he would talk to her the next day.

He drove into his house and closed the door behind him, thankfully, Hazel wasn't around, he wasn't sure he would be able to sleep on the same bed with her, not after kissing Claire this night.

Maybe she realized she liked him after he got together with Hazel. Leo thought as he changed into casual clothes.

And she didn't want to end their relationship so she didn't tell him. Leo paused as he connected the dots that were the only tangible reason he could find. Otherwise there was no way she would love him back and not want to be with him.

He lay on the bed as he felt a different dose of happiness wash through him.

He couldn't even believe that she actually kissed him. He had lost all hope in her but suddenly she ignited his hope and now, he couldn't quench the fire burning inside of him.

His phone vibrated on his side and he opened it immediately, it was a message from Claire.

''Leo,

I'm very sorry for what happened this night. I didn't know when I did that, it was the alcohol and I haven't had s.e.x for a while, so I was just s.e.x starved. I'm so sorry for using you, I'm a really bad person for doing this, please find a place in your heart to forgive me. I can't face you like this so I'll be leaving for a while, when I get over what I've done, I'll come back. Goodbye. ''

''No, no, no '' Leo screamed and dashed out of his room and out of the house without his slippers to the car; he quickly drove out with speed to Claire's house, on the way he called her severally but she was not picking. 

''Damn it; pick up the damn phone; '' he cussed; It kept on redirecting him to her voicemail and he finally left a message;

''Claire! Don't leave, please stay where you are, we need to talk, please I'm coming for you. ''