Mia’s pov
It was obvious that Lorenzo was in a good mood tonight. Perhaps it was the alcohol he had before we exited the house for the wedding, because I know damn well that it wasn’t because of anything he was served at the wedding because I know he’d never est or drink anything served to him in public. As we danced, I felt like I was trapped in a completely different world with Lorenzo whereby we were completely alone there. It was easy to lose one’s self to Lorenzo’s eyes because they were so beautiful yet so intense.
When I had spotted a few of my father’s men, I had instantly felt nervous to my bones. I had thought my father was also around somewhere, but it turned out to be that I had been paranoid for nothing. At first I had thought my father finslly wanted to fight back against Lorenzo in order to rescue me, and my stomach had tightened with nervousness so fast that I grew dizzy.
To me, that wasn’t gonna seem like I was being rescued. It was gonna seem like I was being taken from oil to open fire, which was why I remained plastered to Lorenzo’s side throughout the wedding until he noticed that something was wrong. Whereas I’d have lied, I didn’t take long to reveal the truth to him, because I didn’t want him to be taken off guard, because I didn’t want to get rescued from him.
The past days had flown by fast, and even though Lorenzo was barely around, it didn’t stop me from still thinking about that kiss we shared whenever I was in his presence. I had thought it was gonna be awkward between us the next day, but Lorenzo hadn’t even created a space for any awkwardness to be able to take place in because he was always busy.
The drive back home had been smooth, and I had pointedly avoided his gaze because it felt like I was drowning in it the more I stare at it. The fact that he had randomly called me ‘princess’ out of nowhere was still making my entire inside reel and I was still turning that around at the front of my mind.
A relieved feeling was gulped at the back of my mind at the fact that my father’s men hadn’t tried anything, not because I was scared of myself and Lorenzo, but because I knew Lorenzo was gonna take them out too easily and that was only gonna create another unnecessary drama. I was already on everyone’s mind, I didn’t need to give them another reason as to why they should keep leaving my name in their mouths.
As soon as the car pulled up at the house, we stepped out and made our way into the house together. My heart was thumping extremely fast for unknown reasons, and on realizing that he was climbing up the stairs along with me almost made me trip because of how nervous I was.
I let out a slow sigh when Lorenzo held my hand from behind, automatically halfing my footstep as my breath slowed down. When I turned around, my breath hitched at once as he slowly walked me backwards till my back was pressed against the wall. As I blinked up at him, my mouth grew dry as his eyes slowly trailed over every inch of my body.
“This is a very gorgeous dress.” He murmured and my face felt like it was on fire.
“Uh, thank you.” I whispered and I watched as his other hand moved up and tilted my head upwards, revealing my throat to his hungry gaze. His eyes looked almost crazed, like he was starved for something.
“You looked irresistible in this dress, I don’t know if you’re aware.”
My mouth went drier as a tremor wrecked through me.
“I- I had no idea.” I whispered, blinking up at him as I watched him let out a chuckle as he began to close the distance between our faces, and I almost stopped breathing.
Only a breath of space remained between our faces as he spoke. “So, when were you gonna ask me for another kiss?”
Color flooded my cheeks even more and I spluttered. “I- I didn’t k- know…”
“Go on.” He encouraged through a grin that sent butterflies into my stomach,
“You ignored me almost t- throughout the week! How was I- I supposed to…”
“Oh, about that.” Lorenzo murmured as he smoothly cut me off. “I wasn’t ignoring you.” His other hand pushed my hair out of my face.
“You’re quite annoying and outrightly a brat, a stubborn one at that.” He paused and I spluttered once again.
“I wasn’t ignoring you, all I did was stay away, because I knew I’d not be able to control myself if I didn’t. You can see our current positions right now, this happened because I couldn’t stay away from you today since we were out together.”
“Oh.” I whispered dumbly and he let out a small hum.
“Yeah.” As he spoke, the grip on my chin got lowered and his fingers lightly glided over my gulping throat.
“Want me to kiss you again?” He continued after a moment and if I couldn’t see the stark hunger in his eyes right now, I’d be convinced that he was only currently offering because he could probably tell how much I had been thinking about that kiss.
“Y- yeah” I whispered after a little while. His eyes darkened as my response sank into his head and his fingers around my throat tightened a little before abruptly loosening. A shudder wracked through my limbs as he brushed my hair out of my face once again.
“So gorgeous.” He whispered and the butterflies in my stomach increased a few notches as a small breath whooshed out of my lungs.
As Lorenzo led me down the hallway, past my bedroom door, all the way to his own, it felt like my heart had crawled away from my chest to get lodged in my throat.
He pushed the door open and nodded at the room, the darkness in his eyes getting more intense than it was before. A heated feeling which had been licking at my insides increased even more and I felt my inside begin to ache.
“Go on in.”