Why did she have to be trapped with him? Somehow—through others at work—Lacy had been volunteered to visit Cameron at his house. He had been sick all week and so it was her job to deliver the gift basket courtesy of the office. Cameron, however, was an ice cold bastard and Lacy wasn't looking forward to seeing his face. Those gray eyes of his, they always seemed to glare at her and she could never figure out why. It made her uneasy.
Her black high heels tip-tapped as she climbed the steps to his door. They echoed her heart as she felt it racing in her chest. She was getting nervous. She waited there for what seemed eternity, almost ready to leave the basket and bolt when she heard the lock click and the door slowly creak open.
There, in the dim shade of his house, stood Cameron.
Lacy took a breath and her stomach flipped. He wasn't the same, and yet he was. The Cameron she had known always seemed so uptight in his crisp suits, so uninterested. Guarded. Cold even. But now he stood in-front of her, forearm over his forehead, leaning lazily against the doorway. His starlight blonde hair fell into his face in waves, so unnatural compared to his usual slick back. His mouth hung slightly slack as he stared at Lacy without a word.
Lacy didn't know what to say, what to think. It was as if he was too tired to put up his usual defenses, his usual airs. He was messy, wild—unhinged. But yet—still focused. His wild eyes were still focused on her. She felt her stomach knot as the usual tension between the two filled the distance between them. It surrounded the space around them, somehow making it feel as if she was being squeezed into a small, cramped space with just him and him alone. How Cameron looked in the doorway, messy, and not giving a fuck—Lacy had to admit—he looked damn sexy sick.
Before she could open her lips, Cameron had opened his first.
"Come in."
The words, said softly, seemed to tumble smoothly out of his soft lips. His eyes burned into her a few seconds longer before he turned around and slunk deeper into his cave. He was leading her deeper into his home, into his territory. It was alluring—though Lacy had hesitated at first, she was drawn in by his aloof figure walking away.
He waited for her in his minimalist living room, seizing the few steps he had ahead of her to think. Think about her soft neck, the nape of it curving sweetly into her delicate jawline. How sweet it would be run his lips across her chin, holding it up as they slowly found their way to her plump little lips. She was just that kind of girl, one you wanted to rip to pieces. Sink your teeth into. So feminine, so delicate. So easy to break. It made him an animal. It was everything he could do to not take her into a closet at work and take her breath away each and every time he saw her. But now, oh now—he had her in his home—
his kingdom
—unaware, even a little frightened. Fuck it—how was her going to control himself?
Her soft voice chimed, "Cameron," before it drifted off into uncertainty.