she could stop my heart

Chapter 6

Alphonso’s pov.

I stared at her as she gracefully strode in front of me as we made our way to the garden. After having our dinner a few minutes ago. 

She looked good in the gown she wore that night, fucking good, too good. I wondered what I was going to tell her, just admiring her backside like this was beautiful.

I waved at my guards who were walking behind us, to reduce their pace, I needed some alone time with my prospect.

When they were far enough, I began.

“You can talk freely now; the guards have given us enough space to…”

Before I could finish my sentence, I saw her turn at a speed of almost lightning and point a small table knife to my neck.

I wasn’t quick to dodge it so I just stood there staring into her hazel eyes with a knife held to my throat.  

My guards noticed that something was off but I asked them to stay back.

An involuntary smile crept on my face.

 it was at this moment that I realized that Alcantara was bad news.

Only this woman can stop my heart and start it again.  

I spoke up to her hearing

 “Alphonso you are indeed a finished man”

She stared up at me in confusion. “You have a knife to your throat and you are smiling?”

“This is the closest anyone has been to killing me, my mother was right, you truly have a fire in you”

Her hands were shaking now and the more she tried to cover it up, the more it weirdly turned me on.

“You have never done this before?”

She gives me a lethal stare and asks.

“Done what!?”

“Done this” I reply with a grin, “Killed someone”

She huffs in denial and that’s when I grab my chance.

“You’ve led enough, it’s my turn now.” I grab her hand and give her a spin, snatching the knife off her in a split second.

I immediately turn her and grab her from behind, holding her tightly so she isn’t able to lose my grip. I can feel her ass on my crotch but I refuse to be distracted.

She smells nice, I like the scent, it smelled of strawberries.

She squirmed as she tried to wriggle from my grip.

“Fucking let me go!” 

I smiled at her.

“I thought we were starting on a good foot, but it seems it has been a bad one all this while”

She replied. “I want to leave this Place; I do not want to get married to you! It’s that so hard to understand?”

I felt a little sting hearing that, but then again, I needed to explain to her that if she couldn’t let me have her, my mother was going to have her killed.

“Promise you will calm down and I will let you go”

She hesitated before replying. “Fine! just let me go”

When I do, she faces me with contempt written all over her face.

“You people are psychopaths” she curses under her breath; I heard it but chose to ignore it.

“Listen to me Tara, you are in a complicated situation as it already is.”

She looked at me with curiosity which prompted me to continue.

“Your father and my mother used to be Lovers when they were young” I cringed at the fact that this beautiful woman I was already attracted to would have been my sister for a second, well thank goodness it didn’t happen.

“How is that possible? How was my dad able to woo a woman as wealthy as your mum?”

I grin.

“I like that we are slowly having a conversation, I mean a few minutes ago, we were at each other’s throat”

She rolled her eyes. “Are you going to tell me what I want to hear or do you want me to jump over the balcony tonight?”

Hmm Bashful, I like it.

“I wasn’t born in the 90’s you know? I just know that he once took a bullet for my mum and that meant the entire world to her.”

Alcantara walks a bit further from me, to process the whole thing I believe, but I continue either way.

“My mum was forever indebted to him and My mother is someone that never likes to owe a person”

Alcantara scoffs.

“Oh, splendid you can run off and tell your mum that her debt has been paid, she is releasing my brother from jail and clearing his name, so what more could I ask for.?”

“Well, the story isn’t entirely complete as you can see, your father left my mum and she wasn’t able to find him for many years, he just disappeared and she felt enraged.”

I grab Alcantara by the hand and pull her towards me.

“Do you think that you are the only one who doesn’t want this marriage? I don’t want any of this. too” I lie.

“But I don’t want blood on my hands and I like you, I fucking do and I don’t know why, so I wouldn’t force you to do anything against your will”

She claps back on my statement. “You and your mother are already forcing me against my will! Plus, what do you mean by you like me? You don’t even know me?”

I don’t retreat from my conversation and instead continue.

“I don’t need to know you to like you Tara, I like what I like.”

She tries to release her grip on me, but I hold on to her tighter.

“Your father hurt my mother’s feelings and as much as she would love to treat you well, she would also love to put a bullet inside you when you decide to run from this.”

I could sense that I had scared her a little so I continued.

“So, here’s the plan, Give me 31 days, just 1 month. If by the end of the month, you don’t confess your feelings to me, I will aid in your escape and take you and your brother far from my mother and you will never hear of the Manuels ever again”

She looks at me like I am some crazy person, but I continue.

“If you however tell me that you are in love with me by the end of the month, you will marry me, Alcantara Walters, and there is no going back on that.”