Chapter 4

-So tell me, what scared you so much about me, but I want you to look into my eyes when you say it, he says, lifting my chin.

-I know who you are, I say stuttering, unable to find a way out.

-Who am I, he asks, managing to press himself against my chest with a single step towards me.

-I don't think I need to clarify that for you, I respond, taking a step back. I startle when my back hits the wall.

-But I actually do, he says, giving me a look that makes my heart skip a beat. He takes another step, and as he leans his hand against the wall, I realize I've walked into the wolf's trap.

-Damon Black, I say with trembling voice. He presses his lips against my earlobe. He doesn't say anything, I just hear his breath that sends shivers down my spine.

-What do you want from me, I say pushing him away from me, but I still managed to keep him a few centimeters away.

-Hmm, he says seeming to think. Everything, he says grinning like a little child.

-What, I ask totally bewildered.

-What don't you understand, he asks raising an eyebrow. I want all of you.

-You're insane! You lied to me that I would be killed just to satisfy your obsession?

-Oh princess, it's not that simple. He sits on the bed, gesturing for me to sit on his lap, and as I try to sit next to him, he pulls me onto his lap.

-Look, I don't know what madness or obsession or whatever this is, but it needs to stop. I want to go home.

-Darling, I didn't lie to you, those people really are after you, the fact that you're here is a plus for me.

-I don't even want to hear this nonsense, I say withdrawing from his lap.

-Nonsense, you say, he says getting closer to me again.

-Tell me, when I touch you like this, he says running his finger over my lips. Wouldn't you rather it be my lips instead of this finger? Or... he pauses while tracing small circles above the V-neck of my blouse. Wouldn't you rather it be my tongue instead of this finger?

-Leave me alone, I shout recoiling as if burned.

    I don't know what's happening to me, I feel like I'm burning all over and that I have no control over myself. This man is the most feared man I've ever heard of, he's involved in all sorts of illegal businesses and not even the police can stop him, and here I am waiting like a bitch in heat for him to tear my clothes off. I think if I were to kiss him now, I wouldn't stop.

-We both know you want this, but you know what!? This, he points from me to him with his finger, will happen when you admit that you want to have sex with me just as much as I do.

-This is not right, I say bewildered. I don't want to have sex with you, I've known you for a few hours.

-I don't see any problem.

-I see, because I'm not a whore, I say revolted.

-Eleanor, I never said that, he says looking at me seriously.

-But that's what you're insinuating, I yell at him.

-Stop putting words in my mouth. Do you think if I considered you a whore, I would have waited so many years to have you?

-But the incident happened a few months ago.

-Yes, but you were on my radar long before that.

-What?

-Do you remember that night at the club?

-Yes. What about it?

-I was the guy you had sex with that night. The next day I looked for you, but you disappeared from my bed, from my hotel, and from my life. Until you reappeared in my life again, and when I saw you sleeping next to me, after you saved me, I realized I had to have you. I followed you and realized that someone else is also doing that, and I decided to bring you back to where you belonged 3 years ago when I first had you.

-Please, I don't want to hear anymore. Lucas or Demon or whatever your name is, understand that I'm not anyone's toy, not even yours. So please leave the room, you've tired me out more than the drugs you've administered to me.

-I understand that or I'm trying to understand, but I'm not leaving. I want to feel you next to me, to see that you're safe.

-But I am, I say tired of this conversation.

-I understand you, but do you understand me?

-I don't want to understand you. I don't want to trust someone like you.

-Someone like me, how?

-I know that hotels and transportation companies are not your only businesses.

-Darling, it's like I was the one following you.

-You need to know everything about enemies.

-It's a shame you're not capable of hating me.

-Oh, really!? Why do you say that?

-Because I'm too sexy to be hated, he says with a devilish grin.