Kathryn gulped, there was no way she could tell him the truth. She couldn’t tell him the main reason she took a billet for someone she barely knew but one thing was for sure, she had to get answers, answers that couldn’t be gotten had that man been shot. She inhaled deeply,
“I’ll tell you but you’ll have to answer my question first ” she told him. She was doing her possible best to divert his attention, she didn’t want him to know her plans yet. It was only after she’d gotten the answers she sought that she would confide in him.
“Tell me, what is it?” He asked. If answering any question of hers would get her to answer to the reason she’d taken a bullet for someone who wanted to ruin him, he was willing to do it.
According to him, there was no question she wanted to ask that he would have an answer to. His personal life, professional life, mafia life, he had answers to all of these questions so hence, he was willing to answer them.
Besides, what was it that she wanted to know? She must have already gathered enough info about him from the people who wanted to kill him at that time hadn’t she?
When he saw that she was becoming hesistant to ask her questions, he decided to remind her that she had put forth a condition
“Don’t you have any questions to ask?” He asked with a smirk on her face and she chuckled
“If you don’t answer my question in thirty seconds then you lose a chance to get my answer ” she said “do you agree?”
He chuckled, he thought she was just being childish. “Of course, there’s no question in this world I wouldn’t be able to provide an answer to, even though most times, the answer happens to be death ” he said and she stared at him, did he really think that was an easy feat?
“We’ll then,” she said, making sure to prolong the phrase. “One million multiplied by fifty seven billion, nine hundred and fifty two?”
He stared at her before putting his hand in the cupboard by his bed while she stared at her wrist watch with a smirk on her face. There was no way he was going to get the multiplication of such large numerals.
“Time up!” She said and he stared at her with a little frown on his face. He couldn’t believe he’d just lost the chance to get the answer he sought from her.
“Why were you even opening the cupboard?” She asked “there is nothing that could have helped you in there” she said as she chuckled
“Oh shoot!” He cursed “I’d forgotten this is not my house, it’s yours ” he said and she burst into even more laughter.
As she laughed, he stared at her. Her laughter for some reason didn’t annoy him, it instead soothed him. When he saw her laugh, he’d forgotten that he was injured or was even taking care of the injuries he’d inflicted on her.
He continued to stare at her, she did strange things to him, things that had they been done to him by anyone else, he’d definitely have their heads served on a platter.
Normally, no one would dare mock him for losing. They’d rather seek ways to comfort him and he was proud to say this was the first time he’d lost and for someone who’d just lost for the first time, he sure seemed happy and pleased.
When she noticed that he’d begun to stare at her rather too strangely, she wanted to leave but then remembering the money he’d offered to pay her if she managed to make him fall for her, she decided to play on. She clenched her fists, the things she wouldn’t do for the money.
“You know what I want to call you from now on Kathryn?” Daniel asked and she shook her head in negativity, indicating that she didn’t know what he wanted to call her.
“What do you want to call me?” She asked as she tucked her hair behind her ear and doing that while she smiled just made her look like a typical model who’d been paid to seduce some billionaire.
“Smiley” he said as he stared at her and to herself, she had to be honest. The name sure sounded sweet but coming from such a don as Daniel, it was strange.
According to her, when he was so sweet to her, when he said sweet things or when he acted sweet to her, she felt like he was a different man. He was not the same man she’d been sent to kill because had he being the same man she’d been sent to kill, he wouldn’t be so sweet to her.
“Do you like the name?” He asked her
“Of course I do.” She said with a smile as she looked away, trying to be a shy girl and Daniel saw what she was doing. He knew she was only trying to play along so he decided to continue with what he was doing.
“Rate your liking of the name on a scale of one to ten” he told her as he raised his brows.
“Five ” she told him as she pouted
“Five?” He asked, shocked. “Why five? I even thought you’d rate it something like a fifty ” he said and she burst into even more laughter
“Fifty? Since when did fifty become a part of the scale of one to ten?” She asked him
“Since I gave you the name smiley ” he told her in a charming voice and she blushed.
This was the perfect chance, it was the perfect time to do something she’d never thought she would do in her entire being.
“Since I like the name smiley, I want to give you a gift ” she told him with a smile on her face “I hope you’ll like it?”
“Gift? I…” before he could finish his question, he suddenly felt her soft lips pressed against his so tightly and his eyes widened in shock.