"...NOT WELCOMED BY A MAN!"

"Just a kiss?"

He let out, as if asking her if it was only a kiss that she desired, or if she was willing for more.

"More than...a kiss."

The response took him off guard. The woman never failed to surprise him.

So he claimed her lips for a deep kiss, one that made her squirm in his arms. His arm around her waist kept her steady.

As he thrust his tongue inside her mouth she willingly opened up to him, welcoming his sweet intrusion.

It did not even last more than a few seconds before he stopped, making her wonder what happened.

She felt his lips brushing up her skin and close to her ears, making her feel ticklish.

"That is all you get, Love...before you become my wife."

As soon as those words left his mouth, she pulled away from him and saw him smirking at her, as if so proud about his entice.

He let go of her, unwrapping his arm from her waist as she took her sweet time to process what had just happened and what he had just said...when a moment ago his tongue was inside her mouth.

"What?"

She grimaced, not understanding the man at all. Not even one bit.

"You heard me."

He walked away and then returned with a towel handing it to her. She accepted it, still confused.

"What did you even mean?"

She asked again, following after him as he did not wait for her and they entered a huge room, which she presumed to be his bedroom of course.

The bed could fit more than three persons, still a mass space would still be spared for another.

The theme was grey and black. He disappeared inside the narrow opening and came out with some clothes in his hands.

He threw at her and she caught them. A white shirt and a pair of black boxers. Was it for her?

"You were not expecting to sleep wearing those, now? Were you?"

He chuckled pointing to her attire. Of course, that had not crossed her mind even for once.

She was too occupied thinking about how to get him to lose his mind for her. And instead of taking off her clothes, he was offering her fresh ones.

This man!!!

She wanted to clap her forehead at the prospect of the scenario.

"Stop eye raping me...not welcomed by even men."

She looked away immediately from him. She did not even realize that all her attention was so fixed on him.

He shook his head and started taking off his shirt, unbuttoning the buttons one by one, revealing his naked torso to her view.

Who would not be curious and steal a few glances?

Standing static on her spot still holding the clothes that he offered, she eyed him from second to second, looking away every instant to get away from being caught.

He took off the shirt, making his naked skin visible to her. She turned to face the other side on her own as if he would not want her to see him.

He found her reaction amusing. A moment ago, she was asking, more like requesting him to give her more than a kiss and then, she was too shy to watch him as he took off his clothes and stood bare in front of her.

He walked up to her and she felt his succeeding steps. His hands were on her waist and flipped her over to make her face him.

She kept her visions down fixed on the floor. Up close, getting to see her, he could be regretting his decision of not taking her when she was offering it to him.

What a bullock-headed he was!

Thinking to himself. He raised his right hand up and with the forefinger touching her chin, made her look up at him. She did not protest.

"Look at me."

"You do not want me to."

Came her reply, still not matching her gaze with his. Was he not against the idea of doing more than a kiss?

"When did I say that?"

He frowned. It got her to look at him then. His curious ones meet her dazed ones.

"You did not want to..."

She could not complete it.

"I did not want to? What?"

He was trying to make a fool out of her yet again. And crack about it later. If she had not come to know Ryan Del Cardoso this better by then? She did in that moment...at least that much.

"I did not want to...what?"

He repeated. She closed her eyes for a brief second and then decided to be straight about it.

"You did not want to lay with me."

Simply put. Yet it felt like he had disappointed her by not giving in to her advances.

The way her eyes stared at his, was so compelling, as if pulling him into her, like a magnet does to the iron nails.

"I told you why...didn't I?"

It came out as a whisper from his side. His attention was all on her. He found it so hard to think clearly. Being so close to her would be doing that to him.

Before he would end up losing it, he decided to let go of her. And if for a flickering moment, she had thought she had him again, he left her.

"Does it mean...does it mean you are a...?"

The distance between them that he had created by himself helped his head to work better than before as he listened to her.

Thinking to herself before she could speak it out, he eyed her, waiting for her to complete.

"M I what?"

"A virgin?"

The word came out of her mouth instantly even before she could put brakes on her own.

His eyes reached his temples, astonished at the kind of conclusion she had drawn from the entire circumstance.

"Is it because you are saving yourself?"

She reiterated her point. He had been too stunned to speak out just yet.

"What did you just call me?"

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