His Naughty Lessons
Chapter 56: Win Him Over

Chapter 56: Win Him Over

** Harper **

Harper was reluctant to put the rest of her clothes back on, but she gave in at the end. The two of them dressed, went back to the living room, and finished the dinner they had abandoned midway. She kept up the game and fed Eli desserts a few more times, miraculously managing to only make a mess once, and they had a good laugh about the suggestive shape of the smudge that the strawberry juice made on his jeans.

She secretly wished that she could use it as an excuse to keep his ruined clothes. It’d be a fair exchange for her underwear, right?

After he left, she padded back to her bedroom and hopped back into the bed. Instead of getting right back to her computer and her web novel like she typically did, she closed her eyes, and started thinking about this unreal evening that had just passed.

Or rather, about the entire past week that she had been too busy to examine closely with a focused mind.

These "lessons" had started taking a somewhat unexpected turn. She had noticed signs from last weekend, when Eli looked at her on that sofa with such heated intensity, but still, she hadn’t anticipated things to go up in full flames this quickly. What they had done today felt ... intimate, in a different way. Even as inexperienced as she was, she knew that there was something else happening in this room, not just simply a physical demonstration of "how to do sex scenes right".

Was it her buried crush from all those years ago finally catching back up with her? Or ... was this something new that had just grown out of their refreshed friendship?

Was it just her, or did Eli feel it too?

In all the years they’d known each other, Harper knew that Eli had never seen her in a "desirable" sort of way. She had always been the good girl next door, his best friend’s little sister. Ever since this "practice arrangement" started, she had been reminding herself that this was the reality she’d accepted long ago, and that a few intimate touches weren’t going to change it. That even when she occasionally glimpsed a different side of him, it meant nothing more than a casual flirt that he was all too used to offering, just like what May said about his habits around the other girls on their editorial team. But then ... There would come moments like last week or today, when he kissed her with so much passion or looked into her eyes with so much desire, that she’d feel a sliver of hope dance inside her despite all the odds.

What if there was a chance for things to change, after all?

Besides, the connection between them hadn’t been merely physical. Back at the amusement park, it had been so easy to spend time with him, simply enjoying his company, and she could sense that he felt the same. They had screamed, laughed, strolled along the seaside in complete silence, and all of it had felt natural and comfortable. She had even held his hand ... although, well, that was on the roller coaster and perhaps not the most romantic way to do it, but it had happened nevertheless, and he clearly didn’t mind.

Did it mean that maybe, just maybe, this feeling that was tugging at the back of her mind right now ... could be mutual?

Harper knew it was a dangerous thought, something that she had always steered away from carefully. But if there was really a possibility, if whatever this was between them could really become something more, then she wouldn’t sit back and watch such a precious chance slip from between her fingers either.

She would make a plan and take her best shot at winning Eli over.

~ ~

Sunday brunch was a popular time at La Cantina. Harper usually preferred to avoid the busy hour, but today, she had a mission, and the anxious excitement was enough to distract her from the noisy crowd.

"So ... you said this is an emergency meeting?" Chelsea poured a generous portion of cilantro lime cream onto her breakfast taco. "What’s it about?"

Harper poked at the quesadilla in front of her, then set her fork down, deciding that it was probably better to get her thoughts out before digging into food. "You remember the point you made about chocolate cakes the last time we were here?" she asked. "That I can’t write about one and do it justice if I don’t even know the taste I’m missing out on."

It had been a throwaway comment from weeks ago, and she was half expecting Chelsea to have forgotten all about it. But surprisingly, Chelsea nodded. "Yep, that was me trying to convince you that you can’t expect to get those romance scenes right if you don’t even remember how it feels." She gave Harper an evaluating look, and suddenly her eyes lit up. "So you’ve finally realized I was right?"

Oops, this was totally going to boost Chelsea’s ego by an extra ten fold that she didn’t need ... But oh well, credit should be given where credit was due. "Yeah, I think you’ve got a point," Harper admitted. "The farther I get with this web novel project, the more I’m starting to see it. Mimicking the other books I read is not enough ... There are some things that have to be pulled from real experience, and it’ll always come out a bit off if I can’t feel it myself."

This was a ruse to get to the real thing she wanted to talk about, of course — her new mission was about Eli, not her web novel — but what she said wasn’t a lie either. The improvement in her sex scenes had been abundantly clear ever since she embarked on that learning journey. So if she simply said she was trying to extend the same idea to emotional scenes, dating scenes ... then this could be used as the perfect cover story for her new mission, right?

Chelsea made a muffled "Mhmm" sound with a mouthful, suggesting Harper to continue. So Harper added, "For the sake of my writing career, I’ve decided that I need to fix this. I’m going all out for a full package."

"Oh, I like where this is going." Chelsea paused between bites. "What kind of ’full package’ are we talking about?"

Harper smiled. "I want to seduce a guy ... body and soul." She took a big sip of her sangria. "Interested in giving me some further advice on how to do that

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