Casanova H.S

Chapter Ten

"I had fun tonight," I tell Harry as soon as we reach the door to my house.

"I did too. I am very glad you agreed to come with me." He smiles down at me, and I give him a big smile back. He takes a step closer. Now standing so close I can feel his breath fan over my face. It smells like mint, making his mouth even more attractive.

The door burst open, and he quickly steps away from me in surprise.

"Oh, Mira! I have wonderful news!" My sister Olivia screams out in excitement. She claps her hands looking extremely happy about whatever she is about to tell me.

"What?" I asked wanting her to get to the point.

"I met this very wealthy man at the market, and he has a son your age. I told him about our money problem, and he agreed to marry off his son, and share his money with us! You're engaged, Mira!" Olivia screams once again. "However we have to wait two days until he comes to town because he is on a business trip overseas." She almost jumps in joy finally being able to tell me the news. I, however, stand here with an open mouth, and a blank mind too shocked to do anything. My freedom, and chance to choose who I love has just been taken away from me without me having a say in the matter.

"No. I refuse." I tell her sternly, and her movements stop. She looks at me in confusion as if she was expecting me to go along with this, and be happy.

"Mira, you can't refuse. If you don't do this we will be broke." For the first time she was completely serious, and I knew this was about more than just getting me a husband. "Oh well, I think I should leave you alone to think this trough, but we need to give him an answer by tomorrow." She turns around, and disappears back into the house, closing the door behind her.

"You're not going to marry him, right?" Harry asks speaking up for the first time after the news. He doesn't look fazed by the news at all, but I can hear a small hint of desperation behind his words. I don't answer him. What am I supposed to say? I know I don't want to do this, but I also know that I don't have much choice. If I don't do this it will not only affect me but my family. "Right?" Harry says this time much louder with the desperation a lot clearer.

"I have to," I say quietly.

"Please don't." Is all he says as he places his hands on my cheeks cupping my face. I bring my eyes up to his for the first time since Olivia left, and for some reason, I can't read the emotion behind them. "Somehow you have done the impossible, you have captured my hearts interest, and that is something no woman has managed to do. Knowing you I know there is no bother telling you what to do, so all I can do is ask you not to marry him."

His face is so close. I open my lips to answer, but can't get a single word to leave my mouth. I want to tell him that I want to give what we have a chance and that he too has done the impossible. If someone had told me months ago that I would get feeling for a man who sees ladies as nothing but toys made for pleasure I would have laughed in their face, but here I am.

Harry starts to lean closer, and I'm not surprised or shocked. I know he needs this, I need this. If this is our goodbye at least we will have a kiss to remember. He captures my lips in a soft yet passionate kiss. I wrap my hands around his neck feeling his long hair resting on the back of it. My eyes close themselves because of the sensation. The taste of his lips is like a small taste of heaven, but when I remember I won't taste them again I pull away. I look up at Harry with a face filled with sorrow before I let him go, just as he lets me go.

I can't bear to look at him anymore, so I turn around and run. Run away from my sister, him, and all the responsibility of stealing what I hold dearest. My freedom, my right of choice, and now him. I know he doesn't love me, and that is not what he meant when he said I have stolen his heart, however, he did mean that I am the only one that has made it a possibility that he might eventually fall in love.