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Liliana gulped after coming out of the villa, she palmed her thumping chest, she was terrified. The earlier encounter she had with that unknown man had left her completely paralyzied in pure fear, for a second she thought her intuition of him having a dangerous aura around him was just her assumption but after his twisted smile and those meaningful glances he shot her while walking out made her run out right away. How did he even know her name?
She rubbed her temple and took out of her phone feeling hunger striking her stomach, she had no heart to go back inside and eat anything, that man did good at scaring the shit out of her. She finally found a small Cafe near the villa but her eyes slightly tensed up watching the cloudy sky. What it started to rain? The Cafe was just a few minutes away and she didn't want to waste money on hiring a cab so she decided to walk towards her destiny.
She was wearing a box heals and thankfully it didn't make harder for her to walk, she was busy following the route her mobile was showing her until she felt a car pausing right beside her. She glanced at it and tensed up when it slowed down making her pace up her hurry steps.
"Ana!" The familiar thick Russian accent called out for her and she knew the only man who had decided to call her that.
She snapped her head towards the man seated in the backseat smiling softly at her, "Come sit, I will drop you wherever you want to go." Lily shook her head giving him a hesitant smile.
"Thank you for the offer Mr. Sokolov, but it's not too far." Cyril's smile dimmed a little hearing her words, he wasn't used to be denied like this. She wasn't rude or arrogant at her words, she was way too polite for her own good.
He gave her a tight lipped smile forcing out the further words, "Get in, Ana, weather is not good." He said but watching the reluctance in her eyes, he let out a small sigh filled with annoyance and frustration.
Before she could respond to refuse him, the man had already jumped off the backseat walking towards her, Lily took a step back when he stopped his long strides right in her personal space before towering over her, his eyes for a moment raked over her dolled up frame letting his parched eyes to quench their thirst of wanting to see her from yesterday.
Cyril's lips twitched slightly watching her simple dressing, she looked cute. He concluded but decided to not word it out to her, "I am waiting." He mumbled making her blink her eyes at him, he looked extremely intimidated right now.
"Like I said it's fi--" Her words were cut short as she flinched in surprise when the man took another step way closer to her liking.
And he didn't stop, watching her stumbling back wanting to maintain a distance between them, the man enjoyed this little back and forth game and kept on stepping near her tensed frame. Her back hit the car making her instantly look behind her but the moment she turned her head, she gasped out jerking her head back against the car finding the man's face extremely closer to her.
Cyril palmed the hood of the car leaning his body down to level their faces. Lily dropped her nervous gaze, fidgeting with her trembling fingers as she stammered, "W-What are you doing M-Mr. Sokolov?" She whispered pushing the back of her head further against car behind her feeling his hot breath fanning her cheek.
Cyril smirked watching her tiny frame completely at his mercy, she looked so cute like this, all flustered and red with nervousness. Leaning his lips near her ear he whispered, "Are you scared of me, Ana?" She bit her inner cheek feeling her breath hitching. This was too much for her, he was way too close to her, especially his dominating aura wasn't helping her tensed muscles as well.
The man teasingly pushed his face closer to her ear whispering, "Hmmm?" She instinctly placed her palms over his chest slightly pushing him back freezing the man for a few seconds before he pulled his face back until it was right before hers.
The nervous girl also raised her bright blue eyes letting them collide with his sharp hazel ones, the unwanted silence engulfed their glued frames. Lily had so many things to say, she badly wanted to push him away, give him a piece of mind for pushing forward to her personal space but the moment his beautiful eyes met hers she felt her tongue was tied with some unknown force.
She finally gathered some strength when the man slightly leaned closer glancing back and forth at her tensed lips, "I-I am not." She whispered back snapping him out of his lost thoughts.
Cyril gulped watching her innocence filled eyes feeling a weird unknown emotion of uncertainty and hesitance remembering what he was planning to do with her, but soon enough his cruel side took over the merciful ones and he chuckled finding her weirdly interesting. He intentionally leaned closer until the tip of his nose grazed hers chilling her hands and feet.
"You're not a good liar, Милая маленькая девочка." Lily gave him a disapproval frown before pressing the back of her head against the car wanting to create a proper distance between them.
"I don't appreciate you invading my personal space, Mr Sokolov." Cyril was taken aback at her sudden words, she indeed looked troubled and not so happy with him coming this close to her.
He suddenly felt awkward, he wasn't familiar with being told off this straight forwardly, he was used to women's shyness, blushing face, and looking submissive letting him have a stroke at his ego at his dominance over them but this little girl indeed looked flustered at first but after her expressions could change this suddenly had left him tongue tied.
He blinked before pulling his hand off the car and stepping back from her, clearing his throat he mumbled, "Well, get in, I will drop you wherever you want to go." Lily still looked quiet hesitant and finally clearing her throat she shook her head.
"Actually, it's just a few minutes away, thanks for the offer." With that she didn't even care to hear him and started walking but soon enough she paused making him smirk thinking that she had changed her mind.
Expected, no woman was born yet who could ignore his charm, he raised his chin looking arrogant and victorious when she turned around meeting with his gleeful eyes, "Mr. Sokolov," He nodded at her smirking slightly.
"Yes, Ana?" He waited for her to accept his offer and sit in the car giving in to his attempts to get closer to her but instead her next words broke his resolute.
"It's a basic manners to not use a language that other person don't know when you're having a two person conversation." With that she gave him a small polite smile and turned around striding away.
She didn't even know what she had done to the frozen man behind, he felt a crack against his chest, so many emotions yet no solution. He was angry, disappointed but all of that speechless. For the first time Cyril Sokolov didn't know if he should let his anger get over his head or simply laugh at how absurd this all was.
The woman he wanted seemed to not like him.
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