Read The Trap Of Ace [by Eva Zahan] Chapter 31 – “What are you talking about? I’m not escaping you,” I excused, not really meeting his eyes.
“Really? Then what was that at the lobby?” Gaze hard.
Surprise lit in me. He saw me?
D**n! I knew I’d gained weight. My fat a*s couldn’t even run faster!
“W-what was what? What did I do now?” I feigned innocent.
His lips pressed together in annoyance. “You ran away seeing me.”
I shrugged. “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I was already late for office. And a lot of work was piled up. I was busy. You’re just mistaken.”
“Busy talking to my employee?” he asked, nostrils flaring.
My eyes widened. How did he know that I was talking to Matt?
Was he keeping an eye on me now? Could this man be anymore weird?
“You don’t have time for me but you do have time to talk to another man?” I staggered back as he took slow steps towards me, like a predator approaching his prey. “How many times do I have to tell you I don’t like seeing you with other men? You seem to be fond of him too much.” A muscle of his jaw ticked, hands curled into tight fists.
In another time I’d have told him off, saying that he didn’t have any right to decide whom I will talk to and whom I wouldn’t. But at this moment, I decided to cool him down first.
“I- I was just talking to him about work. And yes, I do like him. But just as a friend. Nothing else.”
My heart skipped when my back hit the wall and I realized that I’d no other way to escape anymore, with him standing just a hand away from me.
I was stuck between him and the wall.
Closing the rest of the distance, he put his hands at the both sides of my head on the wall, trapping me completely.
Leaning closer, he said, “And it’s better if it remains that way. It’d be good for him.”
I frowned at his warning. “What’s wrong with you? You’re behaving like a caveman!”
My breath hitched as he pulled me flush against him, resting his forehead against mine. The heady scent of his had me light-headed. “You’re mine, Rosebud. And I can be worse when it comes to you.”
Staring in his stormy grey, I went speechless at the intensity of his words.
“I was going mad since last night, thinking what’d be your answer. And you weren’t even picking up my calls or answering my messages.” He sighed, brushing his thumb on my cheek. “I was even outside of your house last night, but seeing the lights of your room off, I’d to go back.”
I gasped. “You were outside my house? Why?”
“For your answer.”
Oh!
“I- I can’t go on a date with you
“Why?” Tone somber.
knowing
tensed all of a sudden as his nostrils flared. “Is it for that boyfriend of yours? That
I remained silent.
tightened around me. “When will you stop denying us? When will you let that sham of your relation go and accept the truth? The truth that
eyes, he let out a breath. When those grey pools were open again, it wasn’t anger that I witnessed. It was pain
for being the reason for his
lips at the curve of mine. I let out a shaky
to kiss
me you don’t feel anything for me, for us. Tell me your
breathy whisper
it as a yes that your heart still belongs to me and no one else’s. And if you don’t…
trembled at the sensations that ran through me at just our mare lips touching. Fireworks exploded in my nerves. I didn’t know what
my best not to respond to his kiss. But when he sought out my lips like they were his salvation, the words he said turned vogue in my head. Throwing my arms around his neck, I
of his hands, keeping them in place. And with the other one, he felt my curves.
fate had some issues with my
my tongue, but I
he cupped my chin, his breathing still ragged. “So it’s a yes then. Now I
I…” I was still recovering from the sensations he made me feel, my mouth couldn’t form words.
it wasn’t fair! How could I stay sane when he had his mouth and hands on me? His mare proximity was enough to make my
his lips against mine into another hard but fast kiss. Pulling away, he peered
give me a yes. Because I won’t wait for long.” With finality engraved into his voice, he glanced at my mouth for one last time before
statue. Still reeling from everything he just did and said. He wouldn’t wait for
say yes? Drag me out on a date with
my head. Who knew, Achilles
fault! I shouldn’t
do I
lips. Heat crept up my cheeks along the flutterings in my tummy
wrong, it felt the most right thing to be into his
***
my cabin, towards the conference room. Another important meeting would be held in some time, and even after being an ordinary employee, the boss needed me beside
answer him anything just because he demanded me to,
wasn’t that simple. I couldn’t just go out with him when I didn’t have a proper
I neared the meeting room, I saw Tobias standing there, busy
you were gonna drop by,” I said, when he turned
he shrugged. “Thought to surprise you. And maybe
brow. “More often? What
widened slightly as he excused
What’s with him?
you know what’s the meeting about?” Tobias
I shook my head.
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