Chapter 21 (taming her body)

"Then do you love me?" The question came like a bomb to her ears. Her body stiffened and her stability was lost as those words came running through.

"Love?!" She managed to ask. "Is there supposed to be a difference between like and love?" Of course she knew that there was a difference but she wasn't going to allow him to make her life a living hell by throwing such a question at her. He raised his eyebrows and pulled her to his chest, with his hand wrapped around her waist and the other holding her wrist firmly.

"How can you not know?" He stared into her eyes and again, she felt lost in it as though she was floating on air. How was he doing this? Or was he doing it on purpose? Did he notice that his eyes seemed to be doing a lot of magical things to her? She stared into those eyes until she felt that she couldn't anymore. She closed her eyes and looked down, then he released her wrist and raised her chin up.

"Why do you keep looking away?"