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Will I ever be able to read him as he does with me?

I sighed deeply at that thought. My hand was still under the running sink faucet. I averted my eyes away from his retiring back and looked at the mark on my hand.

The slow pressure of the water was soothing the stinging pain on my hand. The hard bark of the tree was successful in cutting the pale skin off the back of my hand and drawing little blood out of it. I moved my fingers tracing a line lightly on the scratch on the back of my hand. It stings little as I move my finger on a dark red mark. But it didn't sting a bit when he touched the scratch with his rough fingers instead I felt a tingling over my bruised skin.

Nina, stop thinking about him.

I removed my hand away from the running water and wiped my hand while blowing on the cut so it won't burn when I wipe it.

"Nina, what are you doing here," Skyler asked me as he found me standing alone in the kitchen near the sink blowing on a cut on the back of my hand. I lifted my head and looked at him. He followed my actions and asked, "What happened to your hand." Before I could say something he moved in my direction with long steps and took my hand in his. "How did you get this," he asked with his furrowed brows. He was not letting me say anything and was going on with his investigation.

"If you are done with all your questions then can I talk now," I asked while looking at him.

"Sorry for asking you so many questions," he said with an apologetic smile.

"I got this cut because my hand got smacked on the hard bark of a tree" I explained, still blowing on my bruised skin.

"It looks bad,'' he said while examining my cut. "I will apply some ointment on it," he said to me in his helpful voice and started rumbling through the kitchen cabinets for it. "So you had a boxing match with a tree trunk," he asked in amusement, making me smile at his remark.

"No," I said with the same smile on my lips still examining the cut on the back of my hand. Blood has still not clotted on the cut to seal and stop the oozing of blood from it.

"Found it," he said in his relieved voice after finding ointment in the last cabinet making me look at him.

"I will apply it on your hand," he said while closing the cabinet and looking at me. I was about to refuse him.

"No" when I heard the firm voice from behind me. I turned my head to look to find Jack was standing behind me with a first aid kit in his hand. Did he go to bring it? "No need for it, I will do it myself," he said in his firm voice with a clenched jaw.

He was not looking at Skyler while talking but at me. It was like he was not talking to him but me. He wanted to see if I opposed his declaration but I didn't say anything as I didn't feel like arguing with him. I averted my gaze away from him and looked at Sky. Who was busy looking from me to Jack with an amused smirk on his face.

"Ok, then I'll leave her in your hand. I still have to attend an important call," Skyler said with a playful smirk on his face as I didn't oppose what Jack said. I shot him a glare why he has to leave me alone with him but he still left me alone with Satan himself. Still, with a clenched jaw, he came and stood near me as Skyler left the kitchen. I kept my gaze low and didn't look at him as I don't know how to react to what he said earlier about my allergy to peaches.

How does he remember something like that and I don't? He did save my life in some way by stopping me from eating it. A sudden yelp left from my mouth as he lifted me up and made me sit on the kitchen island. His sudden action made my heart pace increase a bit. Standing in front of me he opened the first aid kit and took out the ointment tube and disinfector from it. Taking my hand in his he started applying the disinfector on the cut. It didn't even hurt a bit as his rough finger touched my sore skin.

Why is this disinfector not burning?

I lifted my eyelids a little and looked at him. His light brown eyes were concentrating on applying the disinfector on my cut gently. My eyes are refusing to believe the scene in front of them. Always rude and mean Jack Miller is applying ointment on my cut. I don't know how he is managing to be so civil with me today. With this thought in my mind, I peered more at his face.

I never gave a second glance to his face. He was indeed very handsome. The girls in high school were mad behind him but he was always busy bullying me in those days. Because of it girls used to say so many mean things to me. As if I cared what they said I always gave right back to them but deep down somewhere it affected me a little bit.

I tried to act tough in front of all of them at that time but I'm human too. Somehow their mean words were bruising a very small part of my self-esteem. It was somewhere deep down there where I couldn't point my finger at. I swallowed the lump forming in my throat while remembering the times when I doubted myself because of their unpleasant words.

Do you want to laugh on the faces of all those girls who made fun of you because the man they were behind is now your fiance?

My inner voice asked me after looking at my inner turmoil.

No.

I said without any second thoughts.

But you get him and they don't.

My inner voice asked me. I don't know why she was bugging me with these questions.

But at what cost and I don't feel lucky about I was forced into it but that fact makes something twitch inside me.

I don't blame those girls. They too felt insecure because this man standing in front of me is capable of making you feel that way. He always ignored them even after they proposed or asked him out in front of the whole high school making the entire high school laugh at those poor girls. I don't want to be one of them. The fear of being one of them made me run even more away from him and It added more fuel to his want to bully me even more.

He was always like that he enjoyed seeing people in pain and that's what is surprising me so much today. He would have enjoyed it if I had suffered because of allergy but he didn't. I don't know how to feel about it. Maybe now he is not anymore my high school bully but my fiance.

I never gave a thought to this fact. But this thought makes me feel weird in my stomach giving birth to funny feelings inside me. And at that moment I feel like being caught because I don't get how to feel about these unknown sensations in me. Like now he is doing something he never did and it is making me feel funny inside me.

I let my hair fall on my face to cover the things which were obvious in my eyes. The mere glance of his predatory eyes into mine will be enough for him to read what is going inside me and fear of it made me hide more under the veil of my hair. I don't know what to do at this moment. So I choose to hide my face behind the veil of my long brown hair.

After he was done applying the cream on my bruised hand he blew on the cut. I felt more tingling as the warm air touched my skin. I tried to take my hand away from his still hiding behind the veil of my hair but he didn't let go of my hand. I know he was looking at me but I didn't lift my eyes to look back at him. With his other hand, he removed the hair away from my face exposing my red face to his heated light brown eyes. I started biting my lower lip as I felt the back of his finger moving from my neck to back in my long hair.

"I don't like it when someone else touches your hair," he said in his calm voice but there was a certain edge to it. It was like he was warning me. His words made me lift my eyelids and look at him. His fingers were still playing with my long hair.

"Don't ever let anyone touch what's mine" he said while looking straight in my eyes. His words made my pupils get dilated while passing a shiver to my spine. I kept looking at him dumbfounded. Saying that he moved his face in my neck and took a deep breath like calming himself while moving the tip of his nose on the length of my neck. "You are only and only mine to touch" His words made my whole body go numb for a second.

He was openly declaring his claim over me. It made my heart hammer more against my ribcage. He pressed small heated kisses on my neck. The tingling touch of his wet lips on my pale skin made me fisted my hands more tightly which were resting on my lap. His one hand moved in my hair and softly gripped them and angled my face to give more access to his mouth. His other hand which was resting on my thigh started slowly moving up and rested below my breast, making my breathing more shallow.

He was open-mouth kissing at the junction of my neck and shoulder pushing me more in this unknown trance. He sank his teeth in my soft sink making me shudder and take myself away from him but he tightened his grip on my hair not letting me go away from him while his other hand cupped my left breath making me go completely numb in his touch. He was biting me like he was marking me as his.

My breath jagged harshly as his tongue moved on my sore skin to soothe the pain while his other hand groping my breast. His touch was doing so many things to me it made a moan slipped out of my mouth. No man has ever touched me like this and this causes pressure to build inside me because of his touch which was taking me to a whole new level of unknownness.

He started pressing the soft kiss upwards on my neck to my face. I was feeling so helpless in his touch it made me question my sanity. I lifted my shaky hand and tried to remove his hand away from me but he growled "Never do that" he said in his dominating voice making my hand fall back on my lap.

I felt like I was losing myself in his torturing hands. With heavy breaths, I bit my lower lips from stopping myself moaning again. His sheer touch makes all my hard work of all these years of not getting helpless in his hands go in vain.

Why he always tries to break that wall which I created between us.

Why is he playing with me like this to show his dominance over me?

All my thoughts were making me go crazy. "Why are you doing these with me" this whisper question left out of my mouth. The desperation to hear his answer was taking over me.

"Because I'm the only one allowed to do this thing to you" he whispered while looking at me with hooded eyes. Like declaring the very obvious thing to me with his dominating eyes. His words made a bolt of electricity run my veins. "Don't you dare to forget my wild cat that I'm the only one who will ever play with you like this?" he said in his dominating voice with a malicious smirk on his lips.

"Everything is mine and you can't change it even If badly you want to," he said in his same voice, not before giving a firm groping to the peak of my breast. A gasp left my mouth at him and it made my eyes wide at his invasion on my body. His smirk widely looked at my reaction. Saying that he left me with my agony with a satisfying smirk on his face.

"Damn him" I cursed while hiding my face behind my hands.

God, what did he just do to me?

I let him touch my bosom without any protest. As soon as his hands we're in me I lost myself in his touch. I can't believe just what happened to me just now. I slipped down from the kitchen island and stood up on my wobbling legs. I was still feeling his hands on my bust. The way I moaned when his fingers played with the peak of my breast.

His touch opened the channel inside me which still wanted to have some kind of satisfaction and it was making me feel more embarrassed about what happens just now. What magic he did on my body. With red faces, I ran to my room with still wobbling legs.

Reaching my room I closed the door and sat down on the love seat to give little support to my quivering legs. I was lost in my thoughts when the door of our room opened and for a second I felt my heart stopping beating at the thought that he must have followed me here to continue what he was doing to me in the kitchen. Instead frightened Jane was standing with her back facing the closed door. From her face, it looked like she had seen a ghost.

"What happened, Jane," I asked her with furrowed brows but she still didn't respond back to me. "He is so bad," she said in her pissed voice making me look at her with a more deep frown.

What is she talking about?

"I need to do something that will piss him off. Which will break his not to get an angry plan." she again said while thinking out loud. Her face was totally in distress.

"What plan are you talking about," Nina said while coming out of the closet suddenly.

"Oh God Nina you scared me," she said with a shock expression on her face with her hands on her heart listening to my sudden voice.

Seeing her shocked face I said "Sorry" with a faint forced smile on my face.

"Come, girl, I need to tell you something important," she said to me in a serious tone while taking a seat beside me. She told her everything that happened when she went to apply ointment on Zanvil's burned chest.

"How these guys are so evil. I knew something was up with them. They were behaving differently." I said in anger. Jack was planning something and now I'm getting a little idea of what he is trying to do to me. He is trying to take full control over me by getting me caught in his manipulating words.

Zanvil is trying to do the same thing with Jane by making her feel guilty. They are so evil. After all, they both are evil best friends. Always partners in crime. Everything was clicking inside me. I looked at Jane with wide known eyes at what happened to her. "Did Jack do something with you?" she asked me looking at my facial expression. My eyes turned red in anger.

"I can't even tell you," I said in my pissed voice with a red face. "Forget it we need to plan something," I said with a revenge tone. "So you heard that they are planning to not get angry right?" she nodded my head. Jack indeed didn't force me to come out with him last night nor did he do anything when he caught me alone yesterday but today when Sky said he will treat my hand he lost it. It perfects the things he only us the one who will ever be able to have me then I need to prove him wrong. I will show him I decide who I will let her me not him. It's my choice, not his.

"So let's think about what makes them unhappy," I said to her.

"But Zanvil gets unhappy from everything I do," she said in annoyance. She is right Zanvil is on all different levels of passiveness. He is jealous of the invisible air which touches Jane. If he is unhappy with something it will be visible in Zanvil's eyes compared to him everything is so different from Jack he is a tough nut to crack. From his outer appearance, it will look like he is an open book but that book has so many unread pages. He will strike on you when you are so vulnerable to the situation. His demeanor changed totally at the time and he shows you his evil face.

"True but we need something else," I said while thinking. I too need to find something else that makes him lose his face. "So let's start with things which piss him off more," I said to her to come up with something for while I think of my problem.

"First he gets angry with me when I talk or laugh with any other men and when I ignore him too and it's a big list," she said while exclaiming in frustration. This all things affect Jack too.

"Same with me too," I said, meeting my stare while thinking and our eyes widened at the same time. A big smirk was plastered on our face.

"Are you thinking the same thing that I'm thinking?" I asked her in excitement. She nodded with a big smirk. We hugged each other in happiness. I will make him jealous to the point where he can't take it. He thinks he is the only one for me. I will show him he is not.

We planned everything "Hope our plan works. Just remember to ignore him and don't let him near you," she said with crossed fingers and repeated it the same to herself. Not letting him touch me. I have been doing that form so long. For a second I lose my guard and he will be all over me so I need to be alert.

"Yes, of course, it will work. They will be pissed beyond their limits and that time it will be our time to relax and enjoy seeing them in that state" I said with an evil smirk.

"And I'm surely going to enjoy it," she said with revenge fire which was burning in her.

I'm going to make you feel like you made me feel.

I'm going to make you feel insecure and have fun watching you in distress.

"Just wait for it."

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