The Traps of the Black Swan

25

'Walking out of the closet?' She doesn't even know if she could do it. "Stop wasting your time on me." Ruby Jane gave up struggling in his embrace.

"I am willing to spend each second of my life with you." Lisa knew it's difficult for her to accept all these hence he had planned to wait. Since it's already out, he will answer her every confusion, thoughts, troubles.

Ruby Jane's head started throbbing without knowing how to send him away. "I am not Jennie. You know me well that I am going to ruin Harmons."

Lisa relaxedly offered, "Do you want my help? We can play them like prey in the lion's den."

Ruby Jane really wanted facepalm herself, she didn't want to pull anybody to her darkness, "I meant I am scheming, cruel, crafty. I am not the one to be kept around. You will never know how I will deceit you."

Ruby Jane in his embrace, Lisa hummed with his eyes closed, "I will look forward to the days we will be together."

Ruby Jane's lips twitched uncontrollably and lifted her head to see his peaceful charming face. She wasn't a shorty, her forehead reached right at his chin. She saw him enjoying the moment instead of worried or sad or afraid.

"You-"

He kissed her forehead fondly and responded to what she wanted to ask, "I know."

Ruby Jane blushed and tried to get away from him. She couldn't understand how easily he read her without a word extra. It was like he even knows her silence.

Lisa didn't let her leave instead he held her tighter, "Ruby Jane or Jennie, your first reaction for the unexpected intrusion of personal space is to slap or kick." She didn't do anything when he kissed her.

"I had realized your changes when I brought you here from the villa due to the rain. It confirmed to me when you reached my office and desperately tried to know why you were missing me. But I didn't expect you to realize or even know you missed me. Oh yeah. I missed you too."

Ruby Jane hastily stated, "You are reading too much into it. I don't love you."

Lisa accepted, "I agree but are you sure?" He knows her from nine years before and how everyone treated her. It was only when she moved to country U, she got to make real friends and be her and do what she liked. So she is used to his presence around her and that is not 'Love'.

"What do you mean?"

Lisa asked earnestly, "Are you sure your like is just an attachment but not love?"

Ruby Jane retorted back rightfully to stop him, "How are you sure that it's not just an attraction?"

He smirked hearing her. Scooping her in his arms, he went downstairs unhurriedly.

'Why am I not surprised? Or scared?' Ruby Jane thought to herself in his arms, looking at his side profile.

He responded to her question, "You clearly know what is an attraction."

Thinking about attraction, "I have a boyfriend. You should move on." Ruby Jane said in a breath hoping he will be shocked.

Lisa left her on the island counter of the kitchen and tapped her nose, "Sean Harmon isn't your boyfriend." He might not exactly know what she is planning but he could say what she is doing every day.

Ruby Jane rolled her eyes. Even if Sean Harmon is the only person left in the world for her, she wouldn't let him touch her pinky. She started giving her reasoning as he prepared coffee for both knowing their night was going to be very long to sort out her feelings.

"I love the way you take care of me and how you make me feel treasured. That's an attachment."

As Jennie Kim or Ruby Jane, she is always open to him without her knowledge and he just loves how she accepts the actuality. "You feel at home next to me." Lisa gave his point and received no counter-attack to it.