( Gutsy little lamb )
Luna swallowed.
“Why don’t we try it then? How about you give me a month? If I really can’t handle it, I will run away from you on my own.”
Alexander let out an enchanting but chilling laugh. He was speechless. He could see that light in her eyes again, that light that’s blinding for someone like him, that light that he knew he could probably kill no matter what he said or did.
“Tell me, why me?”
“Because you’re the most handsome man I have ever seen?”
He twitched, obviously not pleased. ”There are tons of fish in the sea, Luna. You’re only saying that because you’ve never jumped into the ocean! I just happened to unknowingly jump out of the water right in front of you.”
“I have seen my share of fish but you’re right, you were the first one to jump out of the water and the first one I truly noticed. You’re also the one that has ever sparked something in me. I-I… can’t explain it. I just have this feeling that we…that I…”
…will never find another man like you again for the rest of my life.
Alexander’s grip on the steering wheel tightened. A calculating look flashed across his cold, intimidating eyes before another chuckle filled with disbelief escaped his lips.
“What a gutsy little lamb…” He said out loud, then sighed as he lifted his hand and ran his elegantly long fingers through his hair.
“One month, huh?…?” he leaned in on her and cupped her small face again. “Luna Xane, are you sure about this one month? Are you sure you don’t want to start with small steps like a day or a week first?” The crooked and playful smile, that he showed her many times the night they first met, was now carved on his face.
“I am very sure!” Luna didn’t hesitate. Her emotions were not easily hidden on her innocent face so Alexander couldn’t even question her resolve, because he could see that she had already decided to do this. As he scanned her face, he saw a certain something that radiated from within her that rendered him speechless for a split second.
He averted his gaze to avoid her soulful, bright eyes and looked out the window when suddenly, his eyes slightly narrowed, Luna couldn’t comprehend. Luna followed his gaze but she saw no one at the spot he was looking at, but then again, it was pitch dark outside.
She returned her gaze to him just to see that his eyes had returned to normal as if what she noticed a moment ago was just in her imagination. The jellyfish was emitting some new mysterious illumination again…
“Fine. Do what you want.” Before she knew it, he finally gave in.
Luna gasped upon hearing him. This was unexpected. After rejecting her so fiercely before, he finally caved in. ‘What?! Really? I heard him right, right? I didn’t imagine that, right? We’re the thought that ran through her head.
Like a child who finally caught her escaped balloon again, Luna beamed and her eyes shone joyfully.
Alexander looked away; there were some lingering regrets in his eyes but he blinked them away. He had said it, given his word to her and that was that. He jumped out of the water and she caught him, or at least, he let himself be caught by her.
“Don’t come crying to me afterward…”He murmured as if he was more than certain that this girl would.
“I won’t. “Luna raised her hand like a girl scout stating the preamble and Alexander Smirked as he lazily rested his head on his palm. The jellyfish seemed to be tired now from relentlessly swimming away from this persistent, vigorous, and hell-bent little chaser.
“Uhm…where’s the contract? I want to sign it now ” Luna’s big eyes questioned him. She even seemed excited, something that rendered him speechless once again.
“Little Lamb, why do you feel like you’re treating this as an exciting field trip or something?”
“That’s not it. I’m just afraid you’ll change your mind.”
He twitched. ”So you do know that you can’t trust people so easily, huh?”
“I just learned it a while ago at that bar. I can’t trust any man’s words so easily like that.” She shuddered when she remembered that man again but the sound of Alexander’s fascinating chuckle rang in her ears and it pulled her thoughts away from that terrifying experience.
“Sigh…Little lamb… I don’t know how you survived in his world this long and have not been broken yet.” He looked somewhat amazed. This jellyfish had changed again. He was nothing like the man who appeared and saved her not that long ago.
Luna ignored his words again. She instead held out her palm before him, silently asking for the contract.
Alexander stared at her palm.” Luna… I think what you need to sign isn’t a contract.”
Luna blinked.
“I think…it should be a waiver.” He playfully smiled again and she was mesmerized. Alexander scowling and growling at her was quite outrageously pleasing to the eyes but his smiling face was just an out-of-his-world type of incredible.
She wondered how he would look if his smile reached those ice-cold eyes of his. “But we’re not going to talk about that now. I’II give you time to come to terms with yourself one last time. You’re still under the influence of alcohol, after all, little lamb,” he continued.
“But…”
“Shh… don’t worry, I already gave my word.”
Luna wanted to insist. She didn’t want to waste any more time, but she needed to restrain herself or he might get suspicious if she acted even more desperate than this.
“F-fine,” she bit her lips.
He brought out his phone and typed something in it and then, Luna heard her phone beep.
“That’s my address,” he said, his eyes probing again as he stared at her.
“I can come here once I’m prepared, right?”
He nodded and Luna stared back at him, showing him that she was already more than prepared.
“One last thing for you to know, Luna…” his voice switched yet again to a serious and firm tone that left no room for any doubt or any other possibility. He was suddenly more authoritative than his aura already suggested, causing Luna to swallow in anticipation.
“I require my girlfriend to live with me in my house. So make sure to think about this properly, understand?”