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How I regret kissing him back! 

I glared at him with pure hate in my eyes. He grins looking at my pissed face. I just want to punch him hard in his stupid face. I curled my fingers into a fist. In past days I stopped myself from punching him but today he has again crossed his limits to the level where he deserves more than my punch. 

Today is the day he is going to taste my fist after so long. Just because he has forgotten the taste of my punch that's why he is acting more like a brat he is. I lifted my hard fist to punch in the square of his face when he caught my hand with wide eyes. My actions caught him off guard but the shock on his face was replaced into a big grin looking at what effect his words had on me. 

"Let go of my hand," I said while grinding my teeth. 

"Today no one is going to save you from me," I said while still trying to get my hand out of his hold. 

"Cupcake, why are you suddenly so mad at me," he asked in his innocent voice while still trying to control my hand which was eager to get out of his hold and punch him hard. He was trying to act innocent but I could see a mocking glint in his eyes. 

"You will know exactly why I'm mad at you once my hard fist lands on your stupid face and wipe that smirk for you. It will even make you remember many more things than that" I said in my pissed voice while glaring at him. Listening to my angry words his smirk widened. He just likes to push my buttons to the limit where I can't take it anymore. 

"You are being so hard on me what's wrong in saying if I love someone. Confessing is a crime nowadays" he asked innocently. He was acting like he was the purest form of water on this planet earth and not the Satan he is. I gasped at his words. He thinks he just made a confession of loving someone in front of his fiancee and it's nothing. It's not a big deal for him. 

If he loves her why is he behind me? Why is he forcing me to do things that I don't want? 

He was the one to proclaim to everyone that I'm his fiance. He was the one who always rubbed that on my face whenever any boy showed his interest in me but today he tends to forget everything in front of his love for Ava. He needs me to put some sense in his rusted brain. He thinks he can play with me. I will show him how it's played well.  

"Not at all," I said with a tight smile which made him look at me with raised eyebrows. "Confessing is not at all crime. You should do it more as it takes the burden off your chest. I should confess too. Do you want to know whom I love?" I asked in a harsh voice and just like that hearing my words his all false facade was lost. 

"You don't have anyone I have already made sure about," he said in his firm voice. His words made me dig my nails in my palm but I won't let his words affect me. He thinks he is the one who is ruling my world then let me tell him he is not. 

"Really how sure you are. Why do you think I don't want to marry you?" I asked with a smirk on my face while yanking my hand away from his tight grip. 

"Why do you think I'm doing this maid thing and tolerating you," I said in my mocking tone while folding my hands on my chest. His jaw clenched listening to my words. 

He was getting on the path on which I wanted him. 

"You are just bluffing there is no one" he tried to say in his calm voice but there was an edge to his voice. 

"There is and the reason I don't want to marry you because I love someone else, Jack. Wow, it feels so good after confession," I said in my relaxed voice pulling the last straw of his sanity. I could see my words were getting on his nerves. His light brown predatory eyes glaring down on me. 

It somehow made my throat run dry but I didn't let him see through my lies. He thinks that by intimating me I will run away with my lies but it won't happen this time. I will make him taste the same medicine he wanted me to drink. He moved and stepped more in my personal space making me walk back. There was not much space behind me so now my back was touching the kitchen island. 

He kept both hands beside me and bent to my level. He looked straight in my eyes with hard light brown eyes. He tried to read me but I kept my expression intact. I tried to do the same with him but couldn't read what he was thinking as he was so good at hiding his emotion but he was so bad at hiding one emotion and that is anger. It was visible in his eyes. I won't let him pass. This time he is playing with my life and Ava's life too. 

If he loves her he should go to her. 

But this thought made the burden on my chest heavy. It unsettles something inside me. Does he just want to marry me to get full control over his business? Yes, why else would he want to marry the girl who is the ugliest in his eyes? There was never a day he didn't let me know you were ugly. He made me know it in many ways. Remembering those things of the past made me want to run away and weep on them. 

Nina, be strong everything happens for good. It's good you came to know he wants someone else and not you. Marrying you just a business deal for him so throw out the feeling all he created inside you and you felt them unknown.  It's not your fault. 

I need to be strong if he wants to go to someone else but the funny thing is I don't even want him. I don't know why I'm feeling so uneasy by all these heavy thoughts inside me. But him loving someone and him getting stuck with me was increasing my inner turmoil. 

One thing I hated most in my life and that was being someone's second choice. I just hate the feeling it brings with it and that's what I was experiencing now. It's the ugliest feeling inside me. If he loves someone else then he can happily go to her. 

"It's not true there is no one else in your life but only me, wild cat," he said in his dominating voice passing chills to my spine. My throat went dry listening to his declaration. He doesn't even have a second thought about it. 

Why can't I have someone in my life? Am I not good to be with someone in his eyes?  

His words were so true but I don't want him to see the miserable me. Stop self-doubting you. You are the strongest, bravest, and most beautiful girl I know. You have the beauty that his dusted eyes can't see. My inner voice said in her firm voice making me lift my eyes and look back into his. 

"Yes I do," I said in my firm voice, not backing out. Listening to me he smirked again like not believing a single word of me. 

"My cupcake I know you more than you know you," he said while making me look at his emotion-filled eyes. 

What does he mean by that? He is again trying to confuse me with his manipulating words. 

"You think so," I said in a mocking tone. I won't get into his trap. Again he grinned evilly listening to my words. 

"Tell this to whomever you love that I will take you away from him in the blink of his eyelids. You were mine always will be" he said in his dominating voice passing another chill to my whole body.  His declaration kicked the breathing air out of me. It made me look at him with blazing eyes. 

Why is he saying such words to me? Why is he not letting me go if he loves someone else? Why does he want to ruin two lives to satisfy his ego? After he said he loves someone he has no right to me. I won't let him destroy me. I won't let this happen. I bit my lower lip in resentment. 

The level of inner torment he has increased inside me is making me go crazy. I so badly want to get it out of me and what better way it will be than punching hard in the source of the face and wipe the cockyness off his face. I lifted my hand before it touched his face, he took hold of it. I glared at him with burning eyes while still biting my lower lip in animosity. 

"I'm so going to wipe that cockyness out of your face," I said in my pissed voice. 

"So you want to punch a sick person to take your anger out then I won't stop you. Do it," he said letting go of my hand while moving his face for me to punch. He dusted his left cheek and forwarded me to punch. His actions made me glare at him. He is using his sick card in front of me. 

I can't even now punch him. Why does he always take away the thing I desire most. God this man is making me go crazy. I wonder how the hell I'm still not in a mental asylum. The arrogance in his eyes increased more when I yanked my hand away from his hold. 

"Ugh," I said in annoyance. I stamped my foot on his left toe to let him know the anger he has risen inside me. 

"Ouch," he flinched in pain and took his toe in his hand to examine it. Biting my lower lip in anger I stomped away not even for once turning and looking at him. I didn't feel like seeing his stupid face for a second more. 

"Where are you going" he yelled from my back but I didn't turn around to look at him. I could still hear the pain in his voice as I had stomped his foot hard. 

"Nina" he called my name weeping in pain but I still didn't answer him. "Nina" again yelled my name like a whining toddler he is and it was getting on my nerves. 

"Away from you" I yelled, still not sparing him a glance. 

"As if I will ever let you" he again yelled in his same tone. It made me curse colorful words loudly for him to hear. My phone was ringing which I kept on the dining table. I took it and ignored the whining Jack behind me. I took my ringing cell phone to see who was calling me now. Looking at the caller id my eyebrows furrowed in question. 

Why is Dad calling me? Oh God did uncle already tell everything to aunty and she told everything to dad. If it's true then my wedding cards must have already gone to print. Oh, God! If my assumptions become true then I'm doomed. 

"Please God please don't let it be it" I whispered and prayed to the almighty. I took a few deep breaths and composed myself before answering him. 

"Dad," I said in my small voice getting ready to hear his overexcited voice about everything. 

"Kitten, why were you not picking up your cell phone? I even tried to call your apartment landline number but it came off," he asked me. 

"Oh I was a little busy I didn't get time to look at a cell phone and about the landline, it's off from some days" I lied as I didn't want him to know what he already knows. I was waiting for him to bombard me with all his questions about when I was staying with Jack and all. 

"Why didn't you tell me this before," he asked in his firm voice, making my heart reach a level of a heart attack. 

"W...what," I asked, still trying to play and 

I won't tell him all alone about ourselves. Jack has to face it too. I made myself ready to hear his complaint. 

"That your landline is off. I got so worried when you didn't pick your cellphone too. I was about to come to your apartment if you didn't pick your phone now" he said, making me take a breath of relief. So he doesn't know anything till now. 

"I will send people to your apartment now," he said, bringing back all the uneasiness. 

"W..what why," I said in my uneasy voice while gripping the phone tightly. 

"To repair your landline. Kitten why do you sound so stressed are you not feeling well" he said in his concerned voice. 

"Dad, I'm totally fine. You don't need to send anyone I have already given my landline for repair. You didn't tell me why you call" I asked to distract him, trying not to sound uneasy. 

"I miss you," he said, making me stop talking. "After you came back from your internship. You didn't stay with me and got busy with Jane's wedding preparation and now you will join the office and you will be busier than before so I wanted you to come home tomorrow and stay with me" he said in his fatherly voice. He was right, we didn't get any family time together. After Jane's wedding, I got busy with a maid stupidly and in all this I ignored dad. He needs me too as much as I need him. I miss my home too. 

"I miss you too dad it's just been a little busy. I didn't get a chance to call you but don't worry I will come home tomorrow and we will eat our meals like family" I said in my happy voice. 

"I will cook your favorite dishes," dad said happily. 

"And I will yours," I said with a happy smile on my face. I could see his smiling face in my mind. 

"Meet you tomorrow goodnight," I said, still smiling happily when I felt Jack putting his ear on the other side of the phone to hear my conversation. God this man. I moved my head away when Dad said his good night too. With a smiling face, I cut the call. 

"Who were you talking so happily," he asked in his impatient voice soon as I cut the call. 

"With the love of my life and I even told him what you told me to tell him. He said no Jack Miller can stop him from marrying me and that's what made me happy" I said with an ear-to-ear grin on my face. Listening to my words his face became sore. Saying that I started walking to his bedroom I was so tired from all the events and I badly needed a bed. 

"Tell him Jack Miller's fist is stronger than his words" he yelled in his annoyed voice when I was climbing the stairs. I didn't respond to him. I changed into my pajamas when I came out. 

I found him sitting on the bed with a sulking face. As he looked at me his eyes became harder. I didn't spare him a glance because I didn't have the power left inside me to fight him. Cooking and cleaning all-day for him takes away all my energy from me. I laid down on the bed and took the blanket but before it could cover my whole body he sprawls all over me as he does every night. Still sulking he wrapped his hands around me before I even tried to push him away. 

I wonder how the toddler got trapped in this fully grown man's body. Who sleeps like this. I covered my face with my arms as I was now used to sleeping with him like this. In no time I drifted to sleep. In the morning when he left for the office I left to go to my house. I left a note for him. I had told him he would have locked me inside. Taking a taxi I went home. Dad was already waiting for me in the living room. 

"Look who's here," dad said as he saw me walking near him. I went straight and sat in his lap as I always do. 

"I missed you so much," I said while kissing him on his cheeks and then hugging him. He hugged me too. 

"I missed you more," dad said while hugging me tightly. After that, we eat our breakfast together. 

Then we spend some time together talking about everything like we used to do before. We even played board games. Dad was excited that I was joining the office tomorrow. And he even told me that my new office is prepared. We made lunch together. He cooked what I like to eat and I cooked what he likes to eat. After we were done with lunch we took a dip in the pool having fun all we missed. I don't know how time with dad went so fast. This happiest and fun full day of my life after so long. Now we were preparing dinner for us. 

"Dad, we should do this more often," I said while cutting the vegetables. 

"Yes we should but you don't have time for your old man," dad said while stirring the pot. 

"Dad," I said while making him smile. We heard dad's cell phone ringing. It made me remember I don't remember where I kept my cell phone. 

"I'll go and take the call please keep eyes on the pot," he said with a smile. I nodded and continued cutting the vegetables. After some time dad came and stirred the pot. 

"Anything important," I asked about the cell phone. 

"No nothing," he said with a smile. After some time dad again went out. As I was preparing salad dad came. I smiled at him and again started doing it. 

"Look, Nina who's here," he said, making me lift my head and look at him with a big smile. 

Who must be here? 

But as I saw the person entering the kitchen my smile vanished. He grins looking at my face. What the hell he is doing here. I glared at him as he came more inside the kitchen. Averting my eyes I looked at dad from his face. I could tell he told him I was here as I didn't mention where I was going in the note. 

"Kitten I told you to keep an eye on the pot" saying that dad went to check the simmering pot. Dad's back was facing me when Jack came and stood in front of me. 

"What are you doing here" I whisper in anger. 

"Why did you come here without telling me?" he whispers, asking me arrogantly. 

"I left a note for you, don't you have eyes to read it," I asked him in my annoyed tone. 

"I crumbled it and threw it in the dustbin without reading it," he said in his relaxed tone. It was nothing to throw the note in the dustbin without reading it. 

"What! Why?" I asked in my annoyed voice. 

"Because I wanted to hear in person what you wrote on it so I came here," he said with a smirk on his face. 

God him. 

"I came here to spend some time with dad and I'm staying here today. Now you heard it get lost from here," I said in anger while turning my head and looking at dad who was still busy looking at the pot. 

"Then who will prepare my dinner," he asked in his whispering tone. 

"I wrote in a note to order something from out," I said in annoyance. 

"But I didn't read the note," he said with a smirk on his face. 

God, it was no use to argue with him. 

"Now you hear everything. Get out" I said pushing him to get out but he was not moving from his place. 

"Yes of course I will eat dinner here," he said a little loudly for dad to hear with a smirk on his face. 

"Where are you intending to leave without eating dinner?" Dad asked, turning and looking at me. 

"Nina was making me go but I want to eat food made by you," he said like an innocent child. 

"Kitten did I teach you to send away anyone without feeding them," dad asked me in his firm voice. 

"Dad" I tried to explain but he didn't let me complete. 

"Come to Jack let's have dinner, " dad said while taking him with him. He liked me looking at my pissed face. After setting the table I took my seat beside dad and opposite him. 

"Nina passed Jack chicken," dad said, asking me to pass my favorite dish to him. With glaring eyes, I passed him the dish. 

"I love this dish so much," he said, taking the dish from my hand while flashing me his pleased smile. 

Why he has to come now to destroy my peace. I was enjoying it so much until he came but now he has ruined everything. Throughout the dinner, dad was feeding him all my favorite dishes. When it came time to leave it was a little easy but he took that away from me too. Dad asked him to stay because it was late and he didn't even refuse the offer. He shamelessly said yes. And now I was preparing the guest room for him. 

"Your room is prepared. Dad, I'm going to sleep. Tomorrow I have to wake up early for the office" I said in my bored tone. 

"Good night dad," I said ignoring Jack. 

"Yes, have some rest, you have a big day tomorrow. I think we should also retire for a day" dad said while averting his eyes from me to him. I let them continue their conversation and went to sleep. 

I changed into my pajamas and slumbered on my bed. In no time I was asleep but in the middle of my sweet slumber, I was disturbed as big hands wrapped around my waist. I felt soft wet lips touching the back of my neck and they kept moving down as the strip of my camisole was pulled down exposing my shoulder and back. 

Wake up Nina it's not a dream. 

It made me completely come back to my senses. It made me stride but he made his grip strong around me not letting me go out of his hold. 

"What are you doing? Get out of here," I said, trying to remove his hands from my waist. 

"I can't sleep without you," he said in his husky voice while pressing another wet kiss to my back. 

"Get out of my room, what if dad comes here," I said in my tired voice. If dad finds him here then I will be more doomed than when his dad saw me in a maid dress. Listening to my words he made me turn and look at me. Lights were off in the room but I could see his face clearly as moonlight was slipping through the window inside my room. 

"Then he will see us together," he said again in his relaxed voice while kissing my bare shoulder. My eyes widened listening to his words. 

"What if he also hears us?" he said in his dominating voice, passing a chill to my body. It made me want to scream at him but I stopped myself. Before I could push him he smashed his lips to mine stopping my protesting voice in my mouth. He kissed me hard while his other hand moved to my chest making my heart run wild as he was making his words come true. He spared my lips for a mill second. 

"I missed the whole day kissing you like this," he said in his demanding voice smashing his lips to mine and wondering his hands all over my body. My heart palpated even faster. 

"Kitten" I heard the loud knock on my bedroom door. It made me take my lips away from him. I again heard a loud knock and dad again called my name "kitten are you sleeping." 

"Let me go," I said in my panic voice but instead of letting me go he tightened his hold on me. 

"Kitten your door is open I'm coming in" I heard dad's voice. Listing to his words I went mute. With wide eyes, I looked at the devil who stopped me from getting out of the bed with a big grin on his face and I heard the knob of my door twist. 

I'm dying tonight. 

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