Along With The Night (The Billionaire's Love #5)

Chapter 8

The unplanned kisses

I saw her paddling in the water. To tell you the truth I can watch her over and over again and never get tired. She saw me looking at her. She splashed some water at me. "Oh, are we playing now?" I asked. "Yes please, only if you can catch me" I like the challenge you are giving me Miss Washington. I so like it. "And what if I did catch you?" I asked. "Then, you can have one thing you wish to do."

Fine then "game on querida" She swam across me and I let her take some victory laps before I pulled her to me. "Game over, I have got you Miss Washington. Now for the prize" I hauled her up and took her back to the camp. I threw her inside the tent and started to tickle her. She started laughing and snorting and laughing again.

Suddenly for a moment we both stopped, and her eyes were boring into mine. I don't what happened, but her lips were on mine and we were kissing. Or I was the one who was kissing her I don't know. But it felt good. Her lips tasted so sweet. She tasted like Vodka. I cannot take enough of her ever. She pulled back and pushed me away and ran out.

I think I may just have crossed my limitation. I walked behind her. She was looking at the waves, and her hairs were flowing wildly. "I am sorry, I didn't know what had came over me Violet." She didn't turn around. I touched her shoulder. "It is not you; it is me. I am afraid of all this Lucian." I turned her around and she looked at me.

"What you mean you are afraid?" I asked. "I wasn't going to go far than making out with you" "It's not that, I never been touched before and it scares me what will it do to me. What it will do to us." I hugged her tightly. "Querida, you don't have to do anything for me, I am not asking you to. I just want you to feel comfortable in my company. I am sorry once again. I should have realised my limitations."

I pulled away and sat down poking the fire so that it remains ablaze throughout the night. She sat beside me. Her cloths already started to dry. "I am sorry that I am such a disappointment." "No, you are not a disappointment.

 Just because you do not wish to make out with me, that doesn't make you a disappointment. I really liked your company. You don't complicate things for me. I don't have to pretend to be anything I am not in front of you. I had made memories tonight Miss Washington. And that matters for me."

She held my hand and entwined our fingers. I pulled her hand to my mouth placing a kiss on the back of her palm. "You are so beautiful it is hard to think that no one had ever touched you before." I said. "I know it is, but trust me, no one did. No one was interested in me. I was plain jane back in high school and in college..." She paused. 

"What? No one proposed you?" She smiled "They did, and I turned them down. They were good boys, but I had crush on certain someone. Certain someone I met at my sister's wedding and no boy was compare to that man with dark brooding persona."

"Is that so? Then what happened?" I asked. "I chickened out when I had the chance of telling him about my feelings. And when he made his move, I chickened out again. Me and my insecurities had always stopped me from going and claiming the things that should be mine. Like now, I imagined it many times in my head. Sitting like this talking to you, holding hands but when it is happening it feels so unrealistic. That if I will open my eyes and everything here will just be a dream."

"I can assure you that it is not a dream," "Then why do I feel that the kiss never happened? It felt so like in my dream. And now when I have a chance to do it again, I am feeling so insecure, as if I may never be what you are looking for Lucian." 

 "You want to try it again? Then even then it makes you feel insecure, you can try again. I am not going anywhere. I don't know what it is Violet. I don't know, it is not love. I cannot love you. Know this, but I like your company, you like mine. You can be more than my friend; you can be my girlfriend. And trust me I treat my girls very well. If you need any assurance from my side know this, I may not love you, but I will make every single attempt in this world to make you happy if you are mine."

"And what if it is the opposite, what if I fell for you? "I know how hard this is for her. "Then, I hope you have enough love in your heart to love both of us. Querida, I want to make you happy. And if I can make you smile even for a little while then it is worth it. So, shall we try this again?" I asked. She placed a soft kiss on my cheek making me smile. I kissed her forehead. "And beside I hardly have any doubt that any other girl ever looked good in my clothes like you do."

"Was it a compliment?" she asked. I placed my head in her lap. "Whatever you think it is querida" I whispered looking at the stars above us. I hope that whatever it is works between us. Because I so need her. I do need her so much to be here for me. 

 Everyone always leaves me at a point. I do not wish for her to leave me alone. I do not wish for her to leave ever. But if she can find love someplace else then? What then? She will want to leave me then. Like everyone else. Can I depend upon her? Can I trust her with my fragile heart? Can I be trusted with hers?

She looked down and smiled. "I hope you are enjoying this Mr. Night, because once we return to civilization, we will be boss and secretary, then we hardly will have time to do this" I sat up. "I doubt that, you are still my secretary and we can always plan some weekend trip in every two weeks. We can get away far away from everything. I can take you anywhere you wish me to. It is comforting your presence, your voice, your touch. I do not wish to change this for anything in this whole world Violet. Not for anything." She said nothing, no comments. "Violet, I am being a little forward, but will you be my girlfriend?" I asked.

"Are you giving us name just because you think it is necessary to name our relationship?" what kind of question is that Violet? "Of course not, I am asking because I really want you to be my girlfriend. We shall try this, see if it works. Like regular people. I am not forcing you into acceptance of anything. Take your time and decide and answer me then Violet. I will wait for that answer." She nodded.

The morning rays woke me up. I saw her sleeping coiling to me still in my t-shirt. I kissed her temple. She looked so serene, so beautiful. Her lips curved in a smile. I got dressed swiftly thank god I always had an extra pair of clothes. "Hey wake up" I whispered. She woke up with a smiling face. "Good morning, are we going back?" She asked. "Yes, here wear this with that t-shirt we can change after we took shower in the hotel ok? Help me pack this up"

She helped me and I took her dress kept in neatly with other things. This was little unplanned trip but as they say unplanned trips were best. Just like the unplanned kisses. They too are the best one you can ever remember always. "All ready?" I asked her. "Yes, done." She put on her shoes and I helped her up.

"Can we come back again?" She asked. "As many times as you wish to querida, this is not just my secret spot now, this is ours. Yours and mine. You can come back anytime you wish to. I wont mind, beside this is the place from where our story really begins so, it is really special Miss Washington." I said putting the motorcycle in gear and driving off on the roads of my old country. This is the beginning of our story. 

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