Read Online Meant to Be Yours: New Adult BBW College Romance (Derek and Jaike Book 2) by Marian Tee - Free Book Online

want him to see it, or was this just her guilt talking? Did she want to go back to Angelo’s arms now but was unable to because she felt she owed it to Derek to stay with him?
    He heard himself saying, “I want to see it.”
    A tense, hesitant smile broke over her face. “G-great. Follow me then.”  
    Derek did, and regret washed over him at the stiff way Jaike held herself. He had frightened her, made her feel insecure about herself, dammit. And to think all he wanted to do was love her.
    When he entered the bedroom, Derek was surprised to find the entire room decorated in shades of lime green and black. It was a ghastly combination, and he couldn’t figure out why she had selected the colors.
    “Black’s my favorite color,” she told him after a beat.
    Since lime green was his, he understood right away what she couldn’t make herself say directly.
    She waited for him to say something.
    But he only looked at her, and the way he did made her heart beat fast in terror. It was as if he was thinking if there were enough reasons for him to stay with her.
    “Derek?” She stopped when she was right in front of him. She had barely survived when Angelo abandoned her. If Derek was to do the same thing, she knew it would devastate her completely – a betrayal that she was certain she wouldn’t ever be able to recover from.
    “Please say something,” she whispered.
    But he still didn’t, and the look on his face forced Jaike to look away. It was as if he had turned into stone, and nothing she could say would ever reach him. “Derek, please.” She thought about explaining herself, about what she thought the first time she read Marcy’s message. “Please say something. Angelo—”
    Derek spat something in Greek, something she didn’t understand but distinctly sounded like a curse. A second later, he had pushed her to the bed and he was lying on top of her, his eyes wild with rage and desire. In an instant, she realized that he had misunderstood. She had wanted to explain about Angelo, but instead he thought she had called him by another man’s name.
    “Never say his name in my presence again. Never .” His tone was dangerously soft. Almost barbaric.
    The moment he heard Jaike call him by another man’s name, something inside him had snapped. She was supposed to be the one. She was supposed to be the one he had been waiting for all his goddamn life so why, dammit, why did she want another man?
    “I will never give you to him, not even if you beg me for it.” He kissed her hard, his passion no longer controllable, fury lending his lust a painfully sharp edge. He tore her clothes away from her body, all the while waiting for her to scream at him, to tell him he was being a boor, to scream at him that he was practically raping her.
    But she didn’t, and somehow it only made him angrier.  
    “Fight me,” he growled down at her even as he tore her bra away. “I don’t want your fucking pity. If you don’t want me to take your virginity—” He ripped her panties violently from her body. “Then fight me!”
    He waited for her to look at him like he was a monster. But she didn’t.
    Instead, all she did was reach out to him, her hands shaking as she cupped his face. “I don’t pity you.”
    Jaike’s heart ached when Derek only gazed at her with guarded eyes. To the world, Angelo Valencia might appear the kinder man compared to Derek, but Angelo was a bastard when and where it mattered. Angelo had betrayed her while Derek, he hadn’t abandoned her, had never stopped wanting her all these years even if fear had pushed her to seek safety in another man’s arms.
    She whispered. “I wasn’t calling you by his name, Derek,”
    Her words had him whitening, and she couldn’t help but stroke his cheek, wanting even more to comfort him. “I’m telling the truth. I only said it because I wanted to explain…” She inhaled deeply. “I wanted you to know that even if he said those things, it doesn’t matter to