Too Late Mr. White! I'm Married To Your Rival Now novel Chapter 245

Aria's POV

Aiden's butterfly stroke was a masterpiece of precision and grace, each movement cutting through the water with perfect form.

As he touched the far end of the pool and pivoted underwater to swim back toward me, I found my heart inexplicably racing as he closed the distance between us.

When he surfaced right in front of me, water cascaded from his short hair, tracing tantalizing paths down his face to his neck and across his broad chest before rejoining the pool.

My eyes followed one particular droplet as it slid over the defined ridge of his collarbone, and I instinctively glanced down at my own.

Damn. His collarbones were even more sculpted than mine.

I must have been staring too brazenly because Aiden clicked his tongue softly before asking, "What are you looking at, Mrs. Carter?"

Lost in my comparative anatomy study, my brain-to-mouth filter failed completely. "Your collarbones," I admitted without thinking, then looked up and added, "Yours are more attractive than mine."

Regret hit immediately. To hide my embarrassment, I ducked my head and started nervously chewing on my drink straw.

Aiden laughed, reaching out to rescue the poor plastic victim from between my teeth. "Stop that," he murmured, his voice warm with amusement. "Keep biting and it'll be useless."

I shot him an indignant look, annoyed at being caught in such a childish habit. "I could drink without the straw," I declared, though I did release the mangled plastic from my dental assault.

Setting my juice on the floating tray beside us, I narrowed my eyes at him. "I just realized how sneaky you are, Aiden."

"Oh?" His eyebrows arched with interest as he picked up my abandoned drink and took a sip. "Do tell."

After a moment's hesitation, I ventured, "You deliberately ask me questions when I'm distracted because you know I'll answer honestly without thinking, don't you?"

"Do I?" He furrowed his brow for half a second before offering a response that seemed just a little too innocent. "I hadn't noticed."

"You always time your questions for when my mind is wandering," I accused, watching his expression closely.

And every time, he manages to extract exactly what I'm thinking! This wasn't the first occurrence; I'd just never connected the dots until now.

Aiden's lips curved into that devastatingly confident smirk of his as he leaned in close to my ear, his low chuckle sending electric shivers down my spine. "Or perhaps," he whispered, his breath hot against my skin, "my wife simply gets distracted every time we talk."

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