Nightmares ; Bonkai

chapter 31

"Hey!" Bonnie shrieked when she felt Kai's arm wrap around her waist before she could get out of the kitchen. "You said you'd wait!"

"I lied," he laughed against her ear and pulled her against him before loosening his grip.

Bonnie stumbled into the next room and turned around to him leaning against the doorway. She glanced to her right and noticed the two large white archway doors – one leading back in the direction of the dining room and the other leading down a long hallway passing through different rooms. The wall on her left had open windows showing outside and knew the open space behind her eventually lead to the backdoor. He stayed casually leaning against the frame as her scattered thoughts mixed with the whiskey amplified her every move.

"So what's your plan? Option A. running down that hallway right there, taking a right, going through another room and finding the front door where the car is. Option B. weaving through the rooms behind you to get to the back door; much quicker, but doesn't leave you with many places to go. Or option C. going through that room behind you, taking a left, and finding the staircase to get to a room. It doesn't matter to me; take your pick - no matter which way you choose I'm going to find you."

Kai's face stayed composed as he pushed his shoulder off the frame and crossed his arms.

"You can't escape me, and the best part is deep down we both know you don't want to."

"Hence why I am about to once again run around a house like a crazy person trying to get away from you."

"Remember the reason why that started out the last time?" he took a step towards her and she took three steps back. "You couldn't tell me something – even though it was suffocating you with how badly you wanted to say it out loud – until your instincts took over and your judge-y moral outrage was momentarily put at ease. You couldn't say it until I was surrounding you, overwhelming your senses until you had no other choice but to react with how you truly felt."

Kai took another casual step towards her as Bonnie backed away, hovering between the open archway to the next room and aware of the door in the room after that.

"Is that what you're doing right now?" he asked through squinted eyes as he took in her defensive stance "nervous about how you'll react?"

"Kai, listen – my brain's moving at a mile a minute and the whiskey isn't helping... neither are you, so what do you say we just take a break have a nice Thanksgiving nap and get back to this later?"

"Get back to talking about this after we sleep together?"

"What?" Bonnie's head whipped back around from looking down a hallway.

"You just said after we nap where we're together sleeping," his innocent come-on was diminished by his cheeky smile.

Bonnie rolled her eyes and when she looked back he was walking towards her causing her to lose her balance on the carpet and stumbled back before catching herself and turning for the next room. She made her way to it easily and looked to her immediate left at the opening into the hallway that would eventually lead to the staircase then to the far right hand corner at the back door.

"Decisions, decisions," his deep voice hollered from the next room "but where is outside going to take you, really? Sure it will get you out of the house and eventually bring you around the side to the front but without the keys-"he breathed in sharply through his teeth.

Bonnie's eyes turned into slits and gritted her teeth flattening the front of her dress remembering she changed out of her overalls that had the keys in them. She spun around to see Kai still standing in the middle of the other room, hands in his pockets, head tilted and watching her. A chill ran down her spine as his eyes locked into hers and she could feel the invisible tug towards him once again that was becoming harder to fight. He bit his bottom lip and lifted his head back up, a simmering flame igniting in the back of his eyes as she saw a flash of Kai lifting and pressing her into the wall of the cave and felt his body flushed against hers. She moved her eyes back and forth and tried to shake the memory as it heightened with intensity and she felt her body shuddering under his touch, heard his hoarse sounds echoing throughout her skull.