Page 55 of Hard Rock Sin

"What?" I blurted out. "No! I want to stay here."

With you, went the unspoken words.

"I don't think it's a good idea any more. This — this thing between us — there's no way it can end well."

Cameron picked the towel up from the floor and made his way over to the door where I was standing.

"You're Noah's baby sister. He trusts me to watch out for you. If I betray him like this…"

His eyes were guarded, but I still caught a hint of that heat I'd seen before.

"I'll talk to your brother. We'll figure something out. Find you a place to live."

Cameron gave me one last look, almost mournful, before turning away and walking out the door.

"But I don't want to go."

I should have been embarrassed at the plaintive, almost pathetic, words that left my mouth.

He was already gone.

Chapter Seventeen

Cameron wanted me to leave.

That thought kept running around in circles in my head for the rest of the day. I'd holed myself up in my room, trying to do my reading through blurry eyes as I fought off tears.

I couldn't concentrate on my studies. Not after what he said. Instead, I lay on my stomach in bed, clutching a pillow to my chest.

I tried to console myself with the thought that he didn'treallywant me to leave. He was just trying to…

Trying to what?

Avoid temptation?

Cameron was attracted to me. He had been from the beginning. He'd told me as much at the concert. It had only been after he'd found out I was Noah's sister that he had backed off. He'd told me it would never happen again.

Despite the heated looks, the teasing and flirting, along with the moments between us, rife with unspoken tension, he'd stayed true to his word.

Until he'd kissed me.

I rolled on my back, and put the pillow over my face, flushed and hot as I remembered the kiss.

I was just as attracted to Cameron as he was to me. And it wasn't just because he wasreally really hot, as he'd so modestly put it.

Cameron was thoughtful. Sweet. He did everything he could to make me feel comfortable in his home. He ate pizza with me and watched movies with me.

He said he didn't think of me as a young girl. That he didn't think of me as a little sister.

And that was why he was kicking me out of his house.

It wasn't because he didn't want me here.

It was because he wanted me heretoo much.

Cameron said he would never betray my brother's trust. If I wasn't Noah's sister… if I was any other girl…

But I wasn't. I was Lily Hart. Nothing could change that.