Mean Looking Sweetheart

CHAPTER 20

"Won't you give up already?" He huffed out as he sat down on the driving seat. There was a man standing outside her door to make make sure she couldn't open it and run away. He closed his door and turned the car back to life. Before he could step on the race, she struck out to him with her claws.

"Stop it!" He warned as he held her wrists to put a pause to her assault. "I will not stop until you let me go!" Instead of complying, her rage made his lips tilt on the corners in amusment. He leaned towards her which made her halt. He touched her earlobe with the tip of his nose as he whispered, "Anything but that."

His deep husky voice made a shiver run down her spine. "What do you mean!?" She asked.

"Well, if it's still not obvious enough already, I'm kidnapping you." Her brows creased with confusion and nerves. "For what?!" She demanded.

"I spent days looking for ways to meet you in your daily life, to be a part of it. All so that we could get to know each other better." He started. "Why would you want to get to know me better?" She demanded again.

"Because you saved me." He replied. "How can I repay you if I don't know you." Her expression told him, 'don't give me this bullshit.' But he decided to ignore them and proceed explaining.

"I tried thinking of ways to fit in your life, to atleast be friends with you, for now. But I just realized it's not possible." His face was now a few inches away from her as he explained to her.

"You just told me you hate me just because I'm Salvatore's friend. So getting to know you normally is off the charts." He released her wrists.

"So here I am, taking you with me, so we could get to know each other. Though not normally, but it'll do." She was trying to get her mind around all the things he just said.

"I'm not a thing for you to take away, just as you please!" She hissed.

"You tell me when someone treats you like a thing. He won't get to see another day." He told her as he started to drive.

'No Ava must be waiting for me. I need to get back to her.' She struck her hand out again, but was caught by the wrist in mid air. He caught her while he had his head turned towards the road.

Before she could retrieve her hand back, her hand was pulled forward. Tsuda pulled her hand near his face and touched her palm with his lips. The small peck made Avery jolt and she tried snatched her hand back. But her struggles had no effect on him.

"Easy now." He said and pulled the car over to the side of the road. He pulled his tie loose from around his neck and bound both of her wrists with it. "Please, calm down. You'll hurt yourself." She mistook his genuine care for mockery at the difference at their strength.

The blow to her ego made her enraged. And that rage made her turn around and pull the door open, which was not locked now. " Stop it!" He tried to get a hold of her but she jerk her arm away from him as she stepped out. With her wrists still bound together she took off running.

She ran around the streets with his heavy feet thuding behind her as he told her to stop. She noticed that there was a wall coming at the end of the street. 'It would surely turn right or left.' She thought, but it didn't.

Now at the dead end she turned around facing him. "Get away before you get hurt." She warned him as she felt the tie around her wrists loosen.

"No can do." He replied smugly. He smiled when he saw that she had gotten her hands free. His smile turned into amusement when she held her fists infront of her in a fighting stance.

"Oh, you wanna fight?" He asked while taking off his expensive suit coat. She threw out a kick that would have landed straight to his neck if it was not Hamasaki Tsuda in front of her. He had a maddening look in his eyes as his big hand clutched the the underside of her upper thigh and pulled her towards himself.

She gasped in surprise when she lost her balance and fell forward, towards him. He held her with her leg still up, tucked under his arm as he pushed himself to her. One of his arm was around her waist securing her to him, while the other stretched out holding her thigh.

"Oh! Stretchy. I like that." He exclaimed with excitment. He looked in her eyes and the mix of raging heat and flusterdness he saw in them made his heart halt for a moment. Her eyes shone like the blade of his katana and he found nothing more beautiful at the moment.

He moved his hand up from her waist and held the back of her head. He pushed her face closer to himself. A shiver ran down her body when she felt the wet tip of his tongue on her earlobe. Her body gave out and would have fallen to the ground if he did not had her fully weighting on him.

"This aint your ring, Fireball. Where you can tap out whenever you want. With me, you kill or die." He warned teasingly in a husky voice, his breath touching her wet earlobe.

Never in her life, had she been in a fight that ended this quick. Never.

"You're like this to someone who saved you, I'm afraid to imagine what happens to your enemies." She fought with her words when she knew she could no longer fight this monster of a man physically. "Guess you'll never know." He smirked as he let her go. 'Thank God!' Though Avery had many enemies, she was thankful that he was not one of them.

His eyes softened at her as he stepped back sighing. "Okay, go back to your Ava for now." She knew that by 'for now' he meant they well get through this again. So she needed to handle this with something other than aggression.

"Look, you feel like you need to repay me, right? When I'm in danger I'll ask for your help or you can just protect me then. I'll not say a word against you. But leave us alone right now." He nodded at her speech which made Avery proud to have convinced him of her lie.

Because Tsuda would be the last person she trusts with Ava. Not when he was almost a half brother to Salvatore, the bastard who has hurt her friend like that. That guy was sick in the head and his friend seemed more of a trouble than him.

"Deal then?" He asked with his arm stretched out, offering his hand to shake it in a treaty.

She pondered over her decision, making sure he couldn't take advantage of anything in the deal. At that time she found no flaw in it so she made the deal.

"Deal." She reached out and held his hand in an imposing grip. He smirked down at her which looked way too normal and that was exactly why it gave an unsettling vibe.

He always held a menacing glint in his eyes whenever he saw her, which made her conscious of him in more ways than one. His eyes held promises she did not have the courage to acknowledge.

His grip tightened around her hand, with just the right pressure. She was suddenly pulled to him. "Be ready now, you just made a deal with the yakuza."

'Lord have mercy', that was the only thought she could process at that time.