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Affectionate Gestures

Chapter 26

“And what do you work for?”

I couldn’t contain my curiosity; these new facets of Niall were quite interesting, but also a little disturbing. I never thought that I would get involved with things like these while dating him, but then again, I also never expected my father to support illegal weapon shipping. Sigh.

“Our main task is standing up against the Exocorpse. That’s the group Blake and his minions belong to and they’re involved with a lot more things than just weaponry trades. We stand up against them. We chose not to collaborate with the Police, because we have our own ways of dealing with things,”

Niall told me, as if it was the most normal thing in the world to do. We walked along the giant hallway; several people passed us by, some giving us weird glances while others showed no emotion at all. I couldn’t help but feel somewhat intimidated.

“I see,”

I took a small break,

“Then how do explain the whole ‘threatening my dad’ thing?”

“Well, I could have easily published the files or give them to the FBI after stealing them, but our alliance needs money, and so we began going after the companies that support them one by one. It was my turn to handle your father, and to make sure he was going to pay, you were kind of an addition to the whole thing.”

Glancing at the ground, I was not sure how to feel about this. He basically told me that I was just the means to an end project, but then again, he had admitted his love for me. I still felt betrayed though. I didn’t know how to handle this.

Niall saw my thoughtful demeanor and pulled me closer to him, nuzzling his nose against my cheek while his lips faintly brushed my ear and I heard him whisper to me,

“But you became so much more to me than just a game, you know that,”

He then proceeded to part his lips, his tongue moved softly against my earlobe as my cheeks began to redden heavily and I felt my heart race. We were in public! I glanced around, hoping that no one saw what he did. Damn, this was embarrassing!

Letting out a low chuckle, he raised one of his hands, playing with a strand of my blonde hair while we continued walking, and not really paying attention to the surroundings anymore as we were completely infatuated with each other.

“I hope so,”

I responded cheekily, my lips curled up into a small grin as he raised his eyebrows at me before planting a kiss on my lips.

“You know it, as I said,”

He squeezed my shoulder.

“And if not, I can prove it to you once we’re completely alone.”

My eyes widened slightly as I was eager to hide my blushing face, the ambiguous thoughts began to flood into my helpless mind. Could he not? Physical intercourse had never been a topic for us; he knew what I had gone through with Daniel and how sensitive I was when it came to it.

He probably didn’t even mean it that way, silly.

As I didn’t respond, he simply laughed to himself and turned his ocean blue eyes back forward, his one arm was still wrapped around my shoulder. My eyes wandered along the area, eyeing the bureaus that were remaining on our left, unsuccessfully hiding behind glass walls.

~*~

“Are we going to sleep in a room together?”

My voice was filled with sheer shock and embarrassment as we entered Niall’s, well, our room. There were no windows, and even though it was quite nicely decorated, I couldn’t help but feel like a prisoner, though the presence of Niall made me forget that rather quickly.

The luggages were remaining at a corner of the room with the white walls and decent looking furniture which consisted of a table, a chair, lights, and a bed. There was also a fridge next to the table, and another door which probably led to a bathroom.

Niall closed the door as I walked further into the cell and before I knew what was going on, he wrapped his arms around me from behind, and his large figure seemed to hover over me. I bit my lower lip, becoming incredibly nervous.

When did he become so affectionate?

“I missed you so much,”

The tone of his voice was low and sexy as he murmured those words into my ear, his lips made their way towards my neck, planting sweet pecks upon the flesh near my jugular vein, leaving me mesmerized. I knew that this time was eventually going to come, but I didn’t expect it to be now.

“I missed you too, Niall,”

I managed to answer him, turning around within his arms, so that our torsos were pressed together. He glanced deeply into my eyes his fingers remained at my waist, pulling me closer towards him as he stepped forward, making me stumble backwards and fall onto the white sheets of the double bed.

Now that he was on top of me, a devious grin that was completely unfamiliar to me appeared on his features, making shivers run down my spine. I couldn’t form the words to describe this completely amazing feeling I got when I was with him.

He kissed me deeply; his lips were locked onto mine as my arms slithered around his broad upper body, grasping his coat to pull it off. We had been kissing for quite a while, both of us were starting to become breathless, and Niall was the first to pull away.

“Jolie,”

He panted slightly,

“I’m so sorry for ever making you feel worthless… You are everything to me, and I’m going to prove it,”

With that he moved his head into the crook of my neck, and began sucking on it, making me moan with surprise.

“Psht, not that loud, baby,”

He whispered, his voice made my skin tingle with excitement.

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Sexy Niall is my favorite Niall, for sure. ;) Next chapter might contain some mature content, but nothing too intense. It's quite exciting for me to write, since I want my OTP to come together already, if you're picking up what I'm putting down, haha.

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