Adelaide jabs me at the side of my abdomen.
Holding the side she hit, “What the fuck?”
Her form was fuckingperfect.
“You didn’t tell me you knew hand to hand combat.”
“You never asked.”
I wish I got to see more of this Adelaide. Carefree and uncaring.
“Fine, let’sdocrazy.”
We circled around each other and just when I thought she’d make her move she’d sidestep into the opposite direction. Sticking her tongue at me like a real damn adult.
“Our friendship is on the line.”
Adelaide scoffed. “I thought you said friendship was overrated.”
“It is,” I landed a punch in her abdomen.
Fuck.
She bent down. Her brows scrunched together in pain.
“Shit, did that hur?—”
“Stop going easy on me.”
She took me aback by retaliating—jabbing. Crossing. Jabbing.
“Fight,” she landed a hard punch to my chest. “Back.”
This was what I wanted. I wanted to see Adelaide lose control. I watched her squeeze herself back into the crowded space of her shell. She thought it gave her comfort and sanctuary, but all it did was fucking confuse her and deteriorate her mental health. This wasn’t about her finding her confidence, it was about using it. These punches and jabs and fucking kicks were proof that she didn’t help knowing how to hone her skills. She needed someone to show her it was there.
Maybe I was a bastard.
But I’d rather be the bastard who bore Adelaide’s pain than the bastard who lived without it.
Her fire burned hotter. But her hands were losing their strength. With the next oncoming punch, I pulled her intome. “I don’t know what I find hotter, the fact that you know how to fight or how good your ass looks in those shorts.”
She gasped at my words, stepping hard on my foot.
“Fuck,” I groaned.
Swiftly, she wrapped herself around my back like a koala. Arms holding my neck hostage while she kept her legs tight.
“Still wanna go easy on me?” She whispered straight in my ears.
Fuck, she was wet.
“No.”
Making her lose balance, I elbowed her in the abdomen.
In motions of blurriness—hitting the floor with athump—Adelaide straddled me.
Mumbling asorrybefore attempting to get off me, which somehow resulted with her grinding on my erection.
