I swallowed and for some reason, I felt like crying. But why should I? The one and only time Jasper had tried to share his true feelings with me, I had shut him down, telling him it was dangerous to talk about it. Why should I feel bad about it now when he was simply following my advice?
"I hate you," I blurted out for some reason because I could not think of anything else to say but I wanted to engage. I wanted to rile him up. Make him feel something.
He gave me a pained look. "He's coming. Please stop."
I exhaled loudly and stepped away from him. "Pussy," I muttered as I watched Cole approach us.
"Don't fucking test me, Skye," he muttered back. "And don't be stupid."
"Don't tell me what to do!" I yelled at him, unable to control my emotions anymore and momentarily losing my ability to care. "I'm not Cole, you know. I don't have to listen to you or please you. Go play Daddy with him."
"For fuck's sake, Skye, what the hell is wrong with you?!" he screamed back at me, losing his temper.
Cole finally stood in front of us, frowning at us both and we stopped yelling, breathless and angry, not sure how to explain the outburst. I was not sure whether I understood it myself.
I bit my lip and looked at Cole with a guilty expression. He studied my face for several seconds before looking at Jasper.
"Is there something you guys want to tell me?" he asked impatiently.
I remained quiet.
"Yeah, teach your little girl some manners," Jasper grated and walked off.
Cole watched him leave and then sighed before pursing his lips at me.
"You shouldn't talk to him like that-"
"He started it," I interrupted angrily. "I was just sitting here minding my own business."
Cole held up a hand. "Let me finish, firecracker. You can't talk to him like that and not expect some kind of...um...punishment."
I gave him an incredulous look. "Excuse me? What's he going to do, spank me? Is he into BDSM?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. "Coz he seems like the sort. I knew there was something like that going on with you two. Some DDLB shit."
To my surprise, Cole burst out laughing. "Wha- what did you say?" He asked between bouts of laughter.
I rubbed my arms and looked at him uncertainly. Jasper and I had argued right in front of him after weeks of not engaging with each other and he did not seem the least bit bothered.
"Skye, it's nothing like that," he finally explained with an amused smile. "Yeah, he's a little...demanding and he does indulge me a lot and gets mad when I act out but that's not what I meant at all. He just...wouldn't let go that easily once you make him real mad." He winked at me. "With me, he likes to pound my ass. I don't know what he would do to you."
I gasped a little. Was he for real? Was Cole really talking about this as if it was no big deal or something?
I opened my mouth to question him on his laxity.
"We need to get home, baby," he said before I could get any words out. "It's going to rain like crazy and I'm super hungry after that swim."
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Cole
The look on my girlfriend's face when I had shared the information about Jasper's method of discipline was gold. I could tell she was shocked to hear me being so cool after witnessing their argument and implying that some kind of punishment of a sexual nature might be dealt to her by Jasper.
I wanted to shake them both sometimes. For two weeks, two whole weeks, I had been noticing the way they kept tip-toeing around each other. Jesus. It drove me nuts. First of all, they pretended not to be aware of each other even if they were in the same room together. Then, whenever they did interact, they spoke so politely, it was almost painful to watch.
And the sexual tension emanating from them both whenever I accidentally walked in on them in a room together. Those tiny little moments that, when put together, amounted to something big. And Jasper, he had this expression of longing whenever I kissed Skye a little too passionately in front of him. The guy wanted in on the action so bad, he had to leave the house. Skye was more subtle with her reactions but I noticed just the same.
The argument on the beach? It was bound to happen. I was actually relieved it did happen because I was getting sick of how goddamned formal they were being with each other. And I was the one caught in the middle of all that awkwardness.
We had reached the villa an hour ago and were having dinner with Olivia and her husband in their spacious dining room. The delicious food consisted of marinated shrimp, roast lamb legs, peach mango caprese salad and tiramisu. I was starving after all those hours spent at the beach. The skies had opened up and it was raining so hard outside.
All the swimming had tired me out and I let out a yawn, unable to stifle it anymore.
"You want to turn in for the night?" Jasper leaned in as he asked me the question, his hand squeezing my thigh. I knew what he wanted. Rainy nights made the guy more horny than he usually was.
I smirked at him. "I'd love to, baby," I replied in a low voice then looked up to see Olivia, Richard and Skye all staring at the two of us. Olivia looked the most shocked. I wondered if she could read lips because there was no way she could have heard us over the sound of the rain when we had been speaking so quietly.
Then I realised Jasper's hand
