Control The CEO

Chapter 17

Control The CEO

Chapter 17

❝Confusion, warmth and anger❞

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"I don't have any interesting pens that you can have, otherwise I would have not taken this one" I tell him. My words only earn me a small chuckle from him. Something that I had not expected but I think it is something that he enjoys doing and does so every single day. I wonder if he will be able to go a single day without chuckling or smirking or anything like that. I would actually like to see that happen but it won't happen, I think. From the moment that we met, he smirked.

One of the things that I dislike about him. Ace is the person that I hate the most in the world and his attitude and just he, himself does bring that out in me in everything that he does. It really isn't that personal (well, it is), but it is just the way that it is and I doubt it will change any time soon. "That is not what I meant" He speaks. When his eyes look at me, his look is somehow a mixture of this darkness and yet a piece of delicate. I can't make sense of it all, I don't think I'm meant to.

I've never understood the way that I can look into people's eyes and see things. When I was younger, I thought I was insane and perhaps I am. It would actually not be the first time that someone would have called me insane and I doubt it will be for the last time. "Then what did you mean?" I ask him. I look away from his eyes which are always trying to lure me in with their beauty and that truly does annoy me more than anything in the world can.

"You will tell me one of your secrets, a dark one" He tells me. I don't look at him as my eyes have found the pen in my hands once more. It really is an interesting pen. Is it worth a secret? I don't know. I will have to think about it. I've thought about it. "No" I simply answer. I don't need any other answer since there is no way that this man which I hate will get one of my secrets. Despite how uninteresting and dull they are compared to other people that truly have dark secrets, like Ace.

I will not be surprised if this man which sits across from me has actual skeletons in his closet, then again, it would be quite smelly so it would have to be a basement or something that he doesn't use. Doesn't matter, skeletons surrounds his dark secrets. I'm sure of it. "What? Got something to hide...?" He speaks and I don't even have to look at him to know that he's smirking at me. He's so predictable, which is one thing that I don't like about him. While I do like it when things and people are predicable, I don't like it on him.

I stand up from the chair and walk around the office and towards a window and look outside. "If I did, it's not like I'm going to tell you when you offer nothing in return" I speak. He did not even offer me the pen, I'm taking it. Put me in jail for taking a pen, I don't care. Besides, I'm about to marry the man that I despise with my whole heart, body and soul. I hear his chair slide and then I hear him stand up. His footsteps are smooth when they walk over to me until he stands beside me.

Both of us staring at the city before us. It really is the same city that I've seen since I was a child and somehow it is always changing and I don't mean that a building rises here and there or how the trees grow taller. I mean that there are different people and different experiences everywhere and that always changes. I can't even begin to explain any of it but in my mind, it makes sense and it will continue to make sense to me. Others can just think about it themselves.

Then, Ace gently wraps his arm around my waist, snaking it around me and gently tugging me to face him which I do. even when I'm facing him, he still does not let go of my waist. My body is close to his, so close that our chests almost touching but only barely. I find that my body becomes warm all of a sudden and I can't understand any of it. My lungs have started to burn. That is when I realized that I have been holding my breath for some time and since I can't hold my breath for a long time, my lungs gave me a signal to breathe.

I gulp when we are like this and I stare into his eyes. They hold beauty but I think that I know better than being drawn in by them. I will have to resist and I will do so until I take my last breath. I notice that he has clenched his jaw and is looking at me with a hard look. As if he is angry at me. Which really doesn't make sense since I've not done a single thing to anger him. I think he's always angry, it would not take me aback if he is.

Neither one of us speaks a word, and I don't think that we need words. Somehow when he holds me, I feel like my heart is speeding up and my body is warm and I have this craving inside of my entire body that I can't make any sense out of. Then without even a warning, Ace harshly lets go of me and turns around and heads out of the office. Leaving me all alone here with confusion, warmth and anger. With only one question on my mind at the moment that I know I won't get an answer for: What in the living world was that?