“Shall we?” He said softly and obviously reserving his gentlemanly ways just for me. I had the biggest impulse to pop my head round Draven and stick my tongue out at him, but I doubt that would have been considered as professional enough for our little business ruse we had going on. So instead I went with a beaming smile and said,
“Yes of course Mr Draven, if you would like to follow me this way we can now begin.” I tried to hide my smirk, I ready did…ok, who am I kidding, I didn’t hide it, not even close and Draven’s bad boy grin came out to play when he saw it. I did at least manage to wait until we rounded the corner and out of sight before I almost launched myself at Draven in gratitude.
I turned and playfully grabbed at his jacket before jumping up and down a few times in my utter glee.
“Oh you are good! That was brilliant, just bloody brilliant! God but you are like a freakin Jedi Knight at intimidation!” I decided to stick with my Star Wars analogies making him beam down at me.
“I thought he was going to pee himself! And he was so rude but you just swooped right in there and wham, you put him in his place! Oh the girls are gonna love this well I tell em.” I carried on like this barely being able to keep still in my excitement. The guy was a nightmare to everyone, not just me and at any opportunity to make someone cry he did more than just take it, he enjoyed it!
“Keira, please calm and have some pity.” Draven said in an almost pained way and all of a sudden I felt bad. I didn’t want Draven to think I had become a bitch or anything, so I quickly spun on my heel back to face him.
“Oh, no, no…see, you’re getting this all wrong, I’m not being a bitch…well maybe just a little but that guy is horrible to us all, there was this one time when Jessica’s Nan got ill and she needed to leave but he…” I started talking so fast that I barely noticed the soft smile he gave me before placing both his hands intimately on either side of my face. He bent his knees and levelled his eyes with mine. This action shut me up pretty damn quick as I soon got lost in his beautiful deep eyes.
“I didn’t mean pity for the vile creature, Keira I meant pity for me.” He said gently making my jaw go slack.
“Uhh…Okaaay… what do you mean?” I asked thinking I was missing something here. He laughed once and then shook his head as if trying to find the strength for something.
“If I took my clothes off right now, would it be difficult for you to turn away, given our attraction to each other.” He said and if I thought my jaw went slack before then now it was about to hit the floor! Did he really just say that?
My eyes travelled the length of him and now all I could imagine was peeling off his long sleeved dark red T-shirt, flicking open that heavy belt buckle and popping open those dark denim jeans to reveal what I knew he was packing down there. But wait a minute…why did he always seem to be wearing long sleeves lately?
“I will take that heated look in your eyes as a yes.” He all but growled and when my eyes shot up they found the same heat staring back at me.
“Then you will understand when I ask you to please try and stop being so delectably cute all the time.” His voice had grown deeper, more hoarse with his obvious arousal.
“Cute?” I whispered feeling my breath quicken. His eyes erupted into purple fire and I stumbled back a step. He in turn took a step towards me in a predatory manner causing me to retreat until my back hit against one of the tall aisles of book shelves we were hiding along. Then his hands came up to cage me in and gripped o to the shelf either side of my head.
“Yeah…cute,” he said coming closer on the bloody word that had caused all this. But hold up, what was I saying? It wasn’t like I was doing something on purpose to end up in this position and as belly melting as it was I still had to find out what was really going on here. In fact, it sounded like a great plan. Only actually trying to put it into action was a little more difficult than just thinking about it. What with him looking down at me like that as though he wanted to devour every inch of me after first tasting me with that perfect mouth of his.
“I…uh, don’t know…what are we…Draven?” I said or at least tried to say anyway. Surely I got points for that…right?
“Keira, I…” He started, leaning down further and my heart started to run, even if it was in a race it couldn’t ever win. I felt the emotions build and tried desperately to keep them locked away but then lost the battle when I received a soft command from Draven.
“Look at me.” I did as I was told and felt the tears coat my eyes without falling. His own eyes flashed a deeper purple as he took in my inner torment and one hand left the shelf to come to cup the side of my face. His thumb gradually started to move until it swiped across my lips causing me to suck in a shuddered breath. I closed my eyes for a second in a pointless attempt to escape the raw intensity I felt coming from him in devastating waves. Then I opened my eyes just in time to see him coming closer and I knew that this was it, this was the time I would finally feel his lips again after all this broken time.