The Day I Kissed An Older Man

"Me? Out of my mind? Did you have to react so dramatically to me? Why didn't you react that way with that other guy?" Lucas narrowed his eyes threateningly.

"What did you think Nathan and I were doing in my lounge?" Melody gestured to herself with a perplexed expression. Lucas offered no response, yet his silence spoke volumes.

"What do you take me for, Lucas? Just because you don't respect me doesn't mean you can assume that others won't either!" Irritated, she took two steps back and distanced herself from him.

The lounge door was wide open when he entered. If she had harbored ulterior motives, she would have been an idiot to leave the door open like that. They had merely signed a contract, and he had no right to attack another man as if he was her boyfriend-which he clearly was not.

you think it's appropriate for

remind you that there was never a condition in the contract that

to renegotiate the contract?" Lucas sneered, but his pained expression contradicted the

yourself, didn't you? Weren't you concerned that I might develop feelings and use them against you when you inserted that clause in the contract?" Though the contract explicitly prohibited Melody from having feelings for Lucas, developing such feelings was not

what I said to you the other day

did not expect Lucas to try to shift the blame on her when he had clearly forgotten all

a pet that you can play with whenever you're in a good mood and then ignore after that? If your relationship with Thalia is that good, why didn't you get her to help you with this charade?' Melody thought to herself and felt a wave of