I lost my calm and looked for Lance in full fight gear, only to find him in front of the television. I stood motionless and stared at the screen while watching the morning news. “Is that correct?”
Lance said calmly, “Yes. Would you like to take a seat?” He asked, and I slowly walked over to him and sat down, but Lance suddenly grabbed my arm, and the result was hilarious and insane!
His hands were wrapped around my waist as I sat on his thighs. While I waited for his explanation, my mind was confused with confusion, and I was afraid to move even a fraction of an inch. I couldn’t, however, let him mess with my emotions.
“Can you tell me what you’re up to, Lance?”
“I’m sorry for being difficult these past few days. I just wanted to check if you won’t give up on me easily,” he admitted.
“Oh my God! You tested my patience?”
“Something like that,” he replied. “After what happened on the island, when you chose to be stubborn, I’ve decided to change my tactic. So far, it worked.”
“How dare you!” I tried to be furious at him, but with just a single smile from him, my heart melted for him.
“You are so stubborn for your own good, Alexa. You keep your emotions to yourself. You don’t want to let me know how you truly feel except when you’re angry,” he pointed out my negative flaws.
I’d have to admit that I could be so stubborn most of the time. However, I couldn’t blame myself for being difficult because it was my way of protecting myself. “It will be embarrassing to be so open to you,” I confessed.
“If you truly love me, you will not hide your feelings from me, baby. You will let me know how you feel. If you’re sad or disappointed with me, you don’t have to keep to yourself. If you’re jealous of someone else, you don’t have to hide it!”
“I was never jealous!” I insisted.
“Another lie,” he said.
“What are you talking about?”
“At the press conference. You were so jealous of Liam’s fiancée. Should I show you footage about your reaction that time when she sat beside me? You wanted to kill her in an instant!”
“Oh, God! It was already in the past,” I said.
“So, you were really jealous that time!”
“Okay, fine! I admit. I was so jealous of that woman because she has everything to offer to you, Lance.” I explained why I felt so insecure with that woman.
“It’s because you don’t trust me, baby. You still have doubts about me and my love for you. We can’t make this relationship work if we don’t know how to trust blindly,” he stated.
“I’m just being territorial, Lance. What’s mine should only be mine, and I wouldn’t say I like sharing. Remember that,” I warned him.
“I am yours. All yours. You can do anything to me. Whatever you like,” he whispered, and then I realized that he was no longer on the same page as our conversation. His mind already jumped to something else, and when I looked at him in the eyes, I was totally lost in them.
“How dare you!” I hit one of his shoulders and yelled, gathering all my strength. “Do you realize how much I’ve suffered as a result of your neglect over the last few days? Do you realize I’m on the verge of giving up on you? I considered…,” I was beginning to believe you had lost interest in me.” I suddenly broke down and cried on Lance’s shoulder, and he soothed me. In between sobbing, I murmured, “I detest you…”
“I understand, baby.” Lance gently rubbed my back while whispering soothing things into my ear. He continued, “I hope you can still forgive me.”
“Perhaps, but it will take some time,” I informed him that I felt miserable while being hopeless with him and that I intended to make him pay for what he had done to me during the previous few days.
He said, “I believe I know exactly what you’re thinking right now.”
“How about that?” After wiping away the tears from my eyes, I challenged him.
“You’re thinking of methods to get back at me,” and the hot flushes crawled up into my cheeks.
“Not really,” I denied.
“Oh Alexa, didn’t we talk about it already? We shouldn’t hide anything from each other,” he reminded me. “If you’ll marry me, you will be able to chastise me every day.” He had made a suggestion.
I locked my gaze on him for a few moments, pondering his proposition. “That sounds fantastic,” I answered, “but there is one condition.”
Lance was perplexed. “Condition?” he inquired.
“Yes! You are not allowed to touch me until the wedding,” I said, and he grimaced at my announcement.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t agree to that. After everything that I’ve been through, I deserved a nice cuddle with you right now,” he ordered.
“Right now? Are you serious? In case you have forgotten, you called me a pest an hour ago!” I kept on reminding him.
“You’re the cutest pest that I know,” he replied.
“I hate you!”
“But I love you, baby!” He declared, and then he closed the gap between us and conquered my mouth.