Unreasonable Girl

"So where's my room?" Aria chose not to answer Lucas' question. She climbed the circular staircase to the second floor, and then the evening slipped by.

Aria still needed to learn whose house she was living in now. Who is Lucas? What did the man want from her? Then why was Aria so relaxed?

Aria decided to keep an eye on the situation. At first, she doubted the circumstances. She thought Lucas or Alex might come into her room and hurt her. After one night had passed, nothing had happened to her. She didn't let her guard down and tried to find out what Lucas wanted.

"What did you just say?" Lucas stared at Alex flatly. After the meeting was over, the man had just said something that made his mood even worse.

"Aria, she went to her college. I can't help her; she's a student!" repeated Alex.

"And you let her go alone?"

"I asked my men to keep an eye on her!"

Lucas tapped the table with his fingers. He recalled the expression on Aria's face, who, without hesitation, stepped onto the second floor towards her room. When Aria received all her things this morning, the girl didn't even ask anything. Her expression was calm as if she was used to this situation.

"Do you think that girl is not normal?" he asked.

Lucas frowned, confused. "Not normal?"

Alex sighed heavily. For the first time, he met a woman who was hard to read. "What makes sense for a girl in her twenties to act so calm when two strange men drag her into the house? When the goods came, she was not a problem. That's not a normal reaction from a girl, is it ?"

Lucas smacked his lips; his eyes dropped down momentarily to think about this girl. He couldn't move away from those familiar words. Normal?

So far, he's a man mature enough to read a woman's face—the gaze of a woman who was frightened or filled with desire. The two of them have apparent differences. Lucas didn't think; he could remember how Aria looked into his eyes.

"Have you contacted Fantino yet?"

"I told him his daughter is with us! He thanks you, and begs you to persuade his daughter to marry the man of her choice!"

"That kind of thing? How could he make me do that!"

"Seems like he thinks you'd be a good brother to his daughter!"

"Brother, huh?" Lucas furrowed his eyebrows, as well as a raised lip line. His chest rumbled like lightning striking a lonely tree in a storm.

How could a woman, who had repeatedly teased him into sleeping together, be worthy of him being her brother?

Lucas couldn't focus on his work all day long. It wasn't like his usual self. He was restless for some unknown reason. If only he had asked deeper into his heart, that girl's face would be there.

All the employees who passed him lowered their heads; they respected their superiors more than anyone else. Maybe Lucas was impressed as a rough man who was untouchable, but for the welfare of his employees, he recognized Lucas as a wise boss.

"Is the girl back yet?" Lucas asked as soon as he got into the car.

"I think she do!" Alex answered

"You sound doubtful about your answer, Alex!" Lucas' cynical eyes were like whips for Alex.

***

This luxurious house has a modern interior design. Lucas likes a simple style, and most of the furniture in the house is neutral in color. He stepped into his house, and the room's smell still felt the same until his eyes fell on a different figure.

Aria descended the stairs in her elegant manner. She had smooth skin, not even a single scratch. She was wearing satin pajamas with thigh-high shorts, and as soon as she stood before Lucas, a floral scent wafted from her body.

"You're home, sir! You're a busy steady man!" she said

Although slowly, Lucas' eyes swept over Aria's appearance from head to toe. How could it be this girl was only wearing ordinary pajamas, but her aura radiated a rainbow that surpassed the usual colors?

"Is that okay with you?"

Aria frowned; she didn't master the situation as quickly as Lucas had imagined. The girl wanted something just according to her will "What is this chat about?"

"I wonder, why are you so relaxed in my house? You don't even hesitate to wear your sensual satin pajamas like that here. Don't you think that I or any other man in this house could rape you?"

Aria understood every detail of the sentence that Lucas said; great the way he understood the meaning behind the sentence. How funny, seeing wild animals are careful to pounce on their prey.

Aria took two steps forward; she narrowed her distance from Lucas. They stared at each other, to hear each other's breathing in this close range. The look in Aria's eyes didn't hesitate at all.

"You want to do that?"

"What?"

"Rape me?"

Lucas clenched his fists; he didn't expect that even this girl's tone would make his whole body shiver. The fine hairs at specific points of his body reacted with the girl's sensual lips as if Aria was sucking inside him.

"I am not a good man, young lady! I'm quite used to them calling me more of a devil than a man of fortune!"

Aria shrugged her shoulders; she didn't even move from her spot. She realized from the start that the man in front of her was not the cheap man she had been teased with. Something about that man makes her feel challenged, and it won't be easy.

"Did my father ask you to do this?"

Lucas gasped; how could this girl ask the point so clearly? Since when did she notice it? He had underestimated this girl's way of overthinking.

"You didn't answer, I'll take that as a yes. Again sir, I'm not a young lady. I'm mature enough to understand this. What is your relationship with my father? Are you his crew? Or coworkers?Are you one of his slaves?"

Lucas clenched his jaw; among all the positions, that last word bothered him. "You should know, I've never been anyone's slave! You're right; your father told me to bring you here. Since when did you know?"

Aria narrowed the distance between them again, her eyes moved gracefully, and she bit her lower lip before speaking again, "Can we continue this warm chat in bed?" Aria's knuckles crawled to brush Lucas' face from his forehead to his chin.