Chapter 63 - Sixty-one (1/2)

The moment I open the door sideways I'm engulfed by the delicious smell of freshly made food. Already salivating I walk in slowly, waiting for Leo to catch up with me as I open yet another door to the main room where everybody was chitchatting, already sitting on the ground at the small table, their legs crossed underneath it or to the side with the food already served.

To the side there was a hole on the wooden floor made of stones with a fire in it illuminating and warming the place up, a pot hanging on top of it where the food had been made.

I was about to enter when someone grabs my hand and pulls me back in the hall, away from peering eyes. There was only one person who could have pulled me back so I wasn't surprised when I meet a pair of golden eyes.

”Y-yes?” I say, already aware of what might be bugging him, acting all innocent with a smile on my face, though his body so close to mine made my heart accelerate and my brain lose some of its functionality.

Leo just stares me down for a while, as if searching for something in my face, especially between the curve of my lips…

He starts to ever so softly rub his thumb on my hand when he chuckles, his bright smile stunning me as he brushes his hair back, giving me a full view of his arm flexing up with the movement, only to bring more of his godly face to view.

”I was just curious about what made you… change your mind that quickly.” I shrug, giving to temptation and brushing a loose lock of his hair over his pointy ear, feeling like I'm holding a piece of sunray between my fingers.

”Maybe I just thought that if someone was up to endure my stubbornness for so long and still want to be by my side I might as well give that someone a chance…”

”Oh, is that so… What a lucky person that one must be…”

”Uhum, indeed, after all I'm very, very difficult to get.”

”I can image…” He says, slowly approaching inch by inch with every word he says, to the point where our noses were touching and our warm breaths mixing midair.

”Once more thing though…” I hum at that, not trusting my voice right now. ”How about a real sealing kiss and not a teasing one?”

”Oh, so y-you are not up to teasing?” I say, embarrass by this flirting, but stubbornly wanting to retort his advances, unstably teasing back and flirting to being fl.u.s.tered and embarrassed.

Oh God I felt like an unstable puddle of nerves with an electric current passing through.

This was a dangerous game I was playing.

But I'm used to danger.

He smirks, so close to my face that I could almost feel the muscles of his face moving. ”So that's a yes?”

He starts closing in, but I stop him by putting one finger over his lips, not wanting him to have things so easily.

”Haven't you have enough kisses for today? I think you may overdose if I give you any more…”

”Never, I would never have enough of you…”

”Oh really?” I said, happily teasing him, realizing how fun it was to poke the lion wich a short stick. My turn. ”But I don't know, I think is too quick, don't you think? You said so yourself, that you would follow my pace…”

He narrows his eyes, aware of my teasing as I use his words against him, but I knew by the glint of his eyes that all this situation amused him, in a good way.

”But…” I trace my finger down his face, drawing his jawline and neck, his smooth warm skin giving me a peaceful wholehearted sensation at the same time that it intensified the electric current that seemed shudder in me with his mere presence.

”God you smell so nice…” I unconsciously say, earning a low chuckle from him.

”But…?” He reminds me, his velvet voice elongating the words, as I continue:

”But if you insisted, let's say, a lot, I may or may not give in…or ask very, very nicely… or even-” I say but all my confident teasing fades into fl.u.s.tering as his gaze turns intense, full of l.u.s.t, making my heart skip a beat and my body shiver, clenching my teeth as my mind went blank.

”You look so s.e.xily cute flirting with me…” He says, making me frown my forehead with the use of ”cute” to define me;again”; but relax next as he approaches, his breath tickling my face, his low voice resonating far, far to close:

”It's making me want you so much right now…”

I gulp down, biting my lips as my body starts to warm up over my lower abdomen, and somehow I find my voice to say:

”So…are you insisting?” I didn't need to ask twice as he gets to work, his body covering mine in a protective way that I somehow found very comfortable as his soft lips have their way with mine, his fingers cupping my chin and bringing my face up and closer.

Oh my what was I thinking when I allowed myself to have this relationship? Worst even, to provoke this beast?

Definitely was not thinking about it right now.

I taste him vigorously, unable to do nothing beyond feeling and enjoying the moment, his warmth and taste, his musky smell so close to my nose, until our lips reluctantly separate when we run out of breath, panting as we stay close in an almost hug, a strange yet comfortable and intimate silence, like a place for only the two of us, where words were unnecessary and yet a lot was said.

Leo, however, had to provoke me back for all the teasing by sneaking his hands on my exposed belly, his long fingers tracing hot tingling lines over my skin, making me clench my teeth as soon as I realize that I was about to react to it.

One look at his face however tells me he is doing this on purpose, making me frown and bite my lips, slapping his hand away and giving him a playful punch on the shoulder as a low chuckle escape his lips, sending my body on fire and rising goosebumps all over.

Oh my God what just happened? What we just did? I-I, we-…

And yet, beyond all… I feel I can get used to this.

Someone drops a cup inside the room, probably Ragnur with his beverage, bringing us back to reality; not before an exchange of knowing looks as he squishes my hand one more time before letting go and entering the room.

I felt stupid for missing him already, the lack of the warm of his body, of his hand, of his breath, making me realize just how cold the night was.

Stupid, silly me, don't get all giddy now will ya?