Ceaser.

It was the hardest I've ever tried to restrain myself. Having her close to me and seeing her mutually affected has kept my all of my nerve endings frayed.

At first, when I had seen her flirting with an old friend of mine who just returned home, Xander, I had been offended. Watching her eyes trace his body, I had been a little jealous that she had desired him when she had me.

I wasn't planning on attending the garden party but I had thought of her and was tired of making assumptions as to what she would be wearing and she would be with. I knew it was...