POV: Lianne
My God. He looked serious just by the way he stared at me filled with raw passion.
My knees buckled and I slowly dropped down on the carpeted floor. He didn’t support me. He just stood there, looking down at me with hard eyes.
Is he testing me?! He knows I haven’t had any relationships with any man before I met him. He knows that that act alone, I’m innocent of.
“I know it’s hard for you to decide so I’ll give you time, ” he added. “I can’t take away your virtue without your consent, Lianne. I can’t have you think of me as a monster. I’m not Cain. But…”
His voice seemed to broke. I lifted me head up to see the uncertainty in his eyes.
“You also have the freedom to choose the right man for you. I can’t say I’m that man but know this… I had never given up on loving you, in the past and even in this timeline. I love you, Lianne.”
I searched for the sincerity in his eyes and there it was, swirling inside his brown-greens. I was but hypnotized with it… or maybe it was the fact that he had just declared his love to me. It literally took my breath away for a moment.
He walked out of the study to give me space. I took this alone time to munch over the facts; his words, his offer, my strong will to learn the truth, and if I’m that confident enough to undergo such a passionate union between a man and a woman.
I remained the whole day in the study room, sitting in an available sofa chair, thinking of what he said.
At twelve noon, Jovan, Ruen’s housekeeper with a receding hairline and faint wrinkles on his forehead, came in to give me lunch. I asked where his master was and the only thing he said was that Ruen went out for a drive. I gave him my thanks and continued to ponder on my final decision when I was alone again.
Decision.
My decision.
I knew I had to decide soon, but I found myself drifting to sleep as soon as the clock hit three in the afternoon.
***
I woke up to find myself back in the Since Mansion lying on my bed. Weird. I don’t remember returning here. But as I scanned the room, I realized the furniture was different. They were much more classic in design.
It seemed that I was dreaming again… or more like under the flashbacks of memories that I now felt could be my own and not just hers.
Then I noticed a necklace hanging in an angel figurine beside my bed. It had an emerald stone in it just like what Cain gave me in the cabin. I reached for it, wanting to inspect it closer when at that moment, I realized I was actually naked under the bedcover.
I could feel my blood rushing quickly on my cheeks. ‘What happened? Why am I naked?’ I asked myself.
I held the cover close to my chest as I reached again to get the necklace. After examining it up in the air, I noticed that the mattress dipped at the empty side. I turned and saw Ruen smiling warmly at me, wearing loose white trousers but with nothing on top.
“Good morning, Lianne, ” he greeted, giving me a fresh smile.
Despite confused as to his presence, I smiled back. “Good morning… Ruen.”
My voice somehow sounded shy, like I was a teenage girl meeting her crush for the first time.
Ruen cupped my chin, while the other hand freely brushed the tangled part of my hair. He pulled me closer to him and without any hesitation, gave me a blissful morning kiss.
I didn’t protest. I melted. I really did. Into his arms.
“Lianne, you are mine alone, and I, only yours. With such a tormented soul as mine, I doubt that I deserve you, but you have made me complete. Thank you for this wondrous morning, ” he stated close to my ear.
I immediately felt a quick pang of pain. Since I haven’t remembered everything about us yet, I couldn’t understand what he was saying, but the me in the flashback somehow eased and smiled at him.
“And you took all of my fears and pain away, Ruen, and for that, there is nothing that you do not have any right on, ” I said as I held his eyes on mine.
He placed the necklace on my neck and with a long lingering kiss on my nape, he ignited my slumbering desire.
“Ruen, kiss me, ” I requested without qualm and with one swift motion our lips locked and not a space was spared.
Our kiss deepened some seconds later and soon enough I was stripped of the bed sheet showing my naked self for him to behold and lavish.
Ecstasy.
That was what I felt the whole time we made love.
And I loved it. The feeling of his hands on my skin. His lips capturing mine with passion. And his burning desire on me enveloping my whole body.
It was pure ecstasy.
***
It was evening, probably six in the evening when I woke up. That dream slash flashback made my heart and body burn in need. I wanted to be touched, to be caressed, to be made love to just like the me in the flashback. I wanted Ruen to do so. I couldn’t exactly say it but I just felt that if am to decide now, I know I will not regret it later.
Hurriedly, I went out of the study room and found Ruen already waiting for me in the open balcony of the living room; his gaze thick and arousing. My body reacted and it warmed up. Butterflies in my stomach turned to dragons, wreaking havoc inside me in the most delicious of ways.
“Do you want to go back to the mansion now?” he queried as I joined him in the balcony.
“No, ” I said and shook my head. I stopped in his front and placed a hand on his chest, feeling for the heavy thudding there. “I… haven’t tried the Jacuzzi upstairs yet. I want to… try it.”
I noticed a Jacuzzi in one of the bedrooms upstairs when I went there to find a shirt last night. My guess was, it was the Master’s bedroom and I know for sure it was his room.
Surely, he understood what I meant.