Savior

Chapter Four

Luna

‘Dave let’s go somewhere else.’ I said to my fiancé who evidently was pissed.

‘This is not one of the cheap cafes you like to go to. It’s a bloody five star restaurant whose reservation took me a month to make.’ Dave said making sure that Sole heard it too. And he did, but on contrary of what Dave might be expecting, he laughed, like he’d seen my fiancé running naked on a beach.

‘Let’s just leave please.’ I requested Dave again.

‘Wait a minute. Why are you laughing?’ He asked Sole, clearly ignoring me.

‘Because you’re funny. It’s a bit odd that CEO of a company is more worried about a restaurant’s reservation than about his own fiancé’s taste in food.’

‘I don’t know what you’re doing here but stop it, okay?’ I said stepping forward to stand in front of him.

‘Mr. Accardi, you’re a big name in the business circles but that doesn’t mean we will tolerate this behavior.’ Dave warned, not knowing that his words will only receive more mockery from Sole.

And as expected he snickered before saying, ‘I’m Sole Accardi, and I’m not just a name in business circle, I practically run that business circle of yours and many other in every continent. So I really don’t care if you wish to tolerate me or not. For I’ll get what I’m here for and don’t give a s**t about who comes in my way.’ As soon as his self-description ended, Sole took my hand and pulled me outside the restaurant and into the lobby.

‘Leave me!’ I shouted and tried to free myself of his grip but he didn’t let me go. ‘Sole!’ ‘What are you doing?’ ‘Where are we going?’ ‘Sole?!’ I kept shouting but he never looked at me. Strangely passersby also didn’t spare me a glance, it was almost as if they’ve been instructed not to.

Soon I was taken into the elevator, as the doors closed behind us, he finally looked at me. I stepped back, and he kept taking steps in my direction. There wasn’t much space and my back hit the cool metal side sending shivers down my spine. He noticed it and smirked.

‘You do get affected by smallest of the things, don’t you?’

‘What do you want?’ I asked, wondering why my so called fiancé hadn’t followed us here.

‘He’s probably discussing a refund with the manager.’

‘Huh?’

‘Your fiancé.’

‘He’s the CEO of New Show, he can buy tens of these kind of restaurants.’

‘Are you sure? Because I’ve heard his company has been incurring losses for past two years and that he’s on the brink of bankruptcy.’

‘Stop talking nonsense about my fiancé.’ I gritted my teeth.

He stepped closer and softly caressed my cheek. ‘I hate it when you defend another guy in front of me.’

Hitting his hand away from me, I said, ‘I can defend anyone I want to and I certainly don’t need your permission to defend my man.’ Emphasis on “my man” was enough to irk him off for he pushed me on the elevator wall, trapping me between both his hands.

‘I’m the only one who is going to be your man. You better keep that in mind.’ He half-whispered, his face inches away from mine.

‘Get away…’ A protest left my mouth but couldn’t be complete for his lips attacked mine in a similar fashion as a programmers fingers attack a keyboard during a hack-a-thon.

I tried to push him away and he replied by grabbing my face with one of his hands and deepening the kiss. His tongue danced around exploring every inch of my mouth. His other hand reached the hem of my dress, I mentally cursed myself for wearing a short bodycon. The dress was rising up as his hand became a traveler and the moment I realized it was going to reach inner thigh, I harnessed all my energy and shoved Sole away from me.

Now both of us panting stared at each other. He looked like a hungry animal that had been unleashed on a village full of people. I rushed to press the button on the elevator whose doors suspiciously hadn’t opened till now. But the buttons seemed not to work. I kept pressing them but to no success. Frustrated I turned to look at Sole again who smiled as if he’d just become a country’s president.

‘Bastard!’ I exclaimed.

‘I love it when you curse at me.’ He licked his lips and closed the distance between us again, this time not just claiming my lips but also grabbed my hair.

It’s hard to explain of what I was feeling because the hatred towards him was there, but interestingly that very hatred made out make out session even hotter for me. In my defense of why I reciprocated to his actions, it was my way of punishing him. I wanted to remind him of what he’d missed and how no one, no one but me had the power to make him feel like this, to turn him, Sole Accardi, the business tycoon, a billionaire who had everyone at his feet, into an animal for a woman he’d left.

As both his hands slid down the silk of my dress and reached my waist, I jumped and wrapped my legs around him. He stepped towards the elevator wall for support. ‘You’ve gained weight.’ He reminded me something I didn’t want to be reminded of, as he broke the kiss to move to his next target, my neck.

I threw my head back and said between heavy breathing, ‘And you’ve gained more pompousness.’ Not that, he wasn’t pompous before but right not he was flying on cloud nine probably thinking he got me so easily. Well, he did got me easily. What was wrong with me? I wondered as I continued to enjoy whatever it was that was happening between the two of us.

It was when in between the kisses he asked, ‘Did you miss me?’ that I realized what big a mistake I was making and I jumped off him. ‘What’s wrong?’

‘Stay away from me.’ He didn’t smile this time.

‘Why? Wasn’t this enough to remind you we’ve still got chemistry?’

‘No chemistry is going to make me forget what you did.’

‘What I did? It’s more like what you did.’ His accusing eyes from three years ago were back.

‘You still think it was my fault?’

‘Wasn’t it?’

‘I would’ve given you an explanation but three years ago. Now the train has not only left the station but it has retired too.’

‘I’m ready to forgive you.’

I scoffed at his words. ‘I never asked for your forgiveness Mr. Accardi.’

‘Then it’s high time you do.’

‘If you’ve returned to hear an apology from me then I suggest you consider going back to wherever you came from.’ I said and made another attempt at opening the door by pressing the button in the elevator but yet again I was left disappointed.

It was then that Sole stepped close to me, my back pressed to his chest and said, ‘I will make sure you apologize for everything that you’ve done Miss Agosti.’ And just as he stepped back the doors to the elevator opened.