The Worst Mistake (Rowaelin) pt2
Aelin woke immediately after feeling something shift under her. She opened her eyes to see her veil of hair covering her vision. Pulling her hair out of her face, it took her a second to focus on the silver haired hulking man, covered from the waist down with a bed sheet. He stood with his back turned to her for a second before whirling around at the sound of her gasp.
“SHIT” Aelin rasped in her still guttural morning voice. “What the hell did we do last night?”
Rowans face fell dark as he replied, “A lot if I can remember correctly”
Aelin’s mind started to unfog by the second as she thought about the night before.
How she had already felt tipsy as she left the bar, then persuaded the cab driver to drive her back for a twenty-dollar tip. She had made up her mind to find someone new to sleep with for the night, but never in a million years would she have thought Rowan Whitethorn would be her man for the night.
Rowan Whitethorn…. The man who has probably said less than ten words to her in the months she has known him. Rowan who had found every opportunity to avoid her like the plague, who shared the same views as Lorcan but was not nearly as vocal of them.
For a week straight Aelin has woken up in a different stranger’s bed, a week straight since she walked in on her boyfriend of more than a year sleeping next to a brunette with ratty curls.
Anything to fill this emptiness in her body, the hole torn through her as her lover betrayed her. The touch of other men made her picture Dorian every night, Aelin was fully preparing herself to sleep with the whole city until that was indeed not the case.
That is until last night occurred, she remembers being so enraged by Rowan, so furious, which was a surprise since she had failed to feel anything for the past week, save for of course biting emptiness.
Aelin remembers buying shots after shots after shots as they argued, as they yelled through the bar. She vaguely remembers crashing her lips to his as he gripped her thighs and hulled her up the stairs, not even trying to keep it down as they both stumbled through the building to his door.
Aelin snapped her eyes back to Rowan from where they wondered. “We can’t tell anyone”
Rowan’s face revealed his disdain as he muttered “You think I want people knowing I fucked you”
Aelin rolled out of his bed and tossed on her clothes that had been thrown half hazardly in pile next to the bed.
“I mean it Rowan. I can’t hurt Aedion like that.” She snapped.
“When have you ever thought about anyone else’s feelings but your own?” Rowan chuckled as buckled his jeans.
Aelin bared her teeth as she spoke “Fuck off. You’re one of his closest friends, it’ll piss him the hell off and he’ll hate you” she knew Rowan had no choice but to agree.
For a moment Aelin let herself look at Rowan’s bare chiseled chest, right at that second she noticed those were indeed fresh scratches on his shoulders, sliding to his pecs.
Rowan’s eyes followed hers and smirked “Yes, I guess we did play a little ruff.” Pointing to her chest. Aelin looked down to see bruised love bites all over her breast.
Aelin muttered a curse as she put on her dress from the night before and left his apartment.
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It has been two weeks since her little incident with Rowan, and ever since Aelin has found an excuse not to join her cousin and his friends out on bar nights, just for fear of seeing Rowan and dealing with the awkward interaction. Unfortunately, tonight is Lysandra’s birthday party and she had no way of getting out of it unless she were dead or instead wanted to die at Lys’s hands.
At least the party is at Lys and Aedion’s house and Aelin knew all the ins and outs of that house so she could easily avoid Rowan.
Aelin had successfully avoided conflict all night, sitting in the corner with a glass of wine pressed to her lips, her only companion being Lys, who was being pulled away every few seconds for birthday wishes.
It seemed as though Rowan had the same thought as her, because she had failed to even glimpse him all night. The only reason she vaguely knew he was there was Lorcan’s presence. She knew they were practically attached by the hip.
Aelin found herself needing a minute to escape the crowded living room, so she made her way to one of the bathrooms. That’s when a broad hand wrapped around her arm and pulled her into an empty room.
Aelin let out a loud shriek as she almost failed to keep her balance, nearly falling as her eyes adjusted to the dark room. Her gaze met Rowan’s blazing pine green eyes.
“I haven’t seen you in a while” His voice was low, nearly guttural. Rowan was standing a little too close for comfort so she backed away step, only to find herself against a wall.
“That was on purpose” she remarked with a head tilt.
“Was it?” he asked as he took a step closer, making her tilt her head back to keep eye contact.
“Yes” she tried to keep the snap in her voice but it didn’t quite come out so snarky as wanted.
“Tell me you haven’t thought about that night as much as I have and I will walk away right now.” Rowan uttered as his gaze fell to her lips and back up.
She couldn’t say that she hasn’t. Seemed as though every second of the days since was filled with her wondering about that night, his skin touching hers felt unnaturally good, epically coming from the person it did. She couldn’t lie, she wanted him against her better judgement.
“We can’t do this.” She whispered in answer.
“We will keep it a secret.” He said as he pressed his lips gently to hers and raised his head again to look at her eyes in question.
At that moment, Aelin lost all sense of composure as she crashed her lips to his and wrapped her arms around his neck as Rowan pressed her against the wall.
Authors note: Hiii! Here’s that part 2 you all wanted. Might make it into chapters, I really enjoyed writing this so far.
Tagging those who requested more @alifletcher2012 @myfeyrelady @westofmoon @so-chill-mochill @tangledraysofsunshine @bac1007 @faerie-queen-fireheart @chaoticskyy
Um hi, took an expected brake from tumblr for a few weeks. Will be updating this fic and creating new ones soon. Don’t hate me but I haven’t been reading either :(
