The Code of Intimacy

Chapter 3

Sandro's POV

The car ride back to the mansion was filled with nothing but silence. Morris, from the driver’s seat, threw occasional look every now and then to the woman rigidly sitting in a safe distance beside me. The space she put between the two of us made a room available for another living person and I smirked at the way she would irregularly steal side glance on me. Watching it from my peripheral vision was quite fun knowing she was as curious as much as I was for things we both intend to discover from each other, very soon I hope.

“Um…”, she started breaking the stillness of us inside the car, she cleared her throat and continued carefully whipping her head slightly towards my direction.

“Can I know what will be my job in return for the protection you promised to my boss?”. I was taken aback with her question but of course I managed to keep my passive face in check. For someone to ask about her job knowing this was not something as normal as other things can be and definitely for the woman of her likes. She should ask something different, not this one.

“Why so eager to know the job, mi bella?”, the way her body stiffened was enough for me to know that she had recognized and remembered our first meeting.

“I usually start the work as early as possible. I don’t like wasting time, sir”, my eyes narrowed at the word she used to address me. Really? Sir?

We have to change that, darling.

The chuckle I heard in front of me was enough to give out my best glare at Morris who immediately faked a cough to stop himself from a threatening eruption of laughter.

“You find something funny, buddy?”, I asked and he shook his head focusing his eyes on the road.

“First thing first, mi bella--”

“Don’t call me that, sir”

I looked at her and raised my brows in amusement. This should be interesting. She looked sexy with her eyes blazing with both fear and irritation. f**k! I was biting my lower lip in my mind just seeing her directing those delicious pools of brown. And those f*****g lips thinning in annoyance. My very cherry on top appearing very ravishing and I would be no one but someone who would be willing to ravish her to her last drop, until I tasted all of her, perhaps even after that, I would go and taste everything in her like I never did.

I swear, I will have her.

“Watch your tongue, mi bella, I might just go and sharpen that myself”. Using my own tongue of course. I wanted to add.

“As I was saying, first thing first, you can call me Sandro. Not sir, not even Mr. Dela Constanza. Just Sandro”, my statement earned another low laugh from Morris. Stupid bastard.

“Why?”

“Because I don’t really like it when people calling me sir, makes me feel old and calling me Mr. Dela Constanza makes me feel like people are calling my father from his deep grave”, she nodded.

“Second. Follow my rules. No questions. You are now under our protection to whatever s**t you needed protection from so I can’t have you going freely disobeying every rule I have for you”.

Her face flashed another wave of annoyance and knowing that she wanted nothing but spat a good yell of opposing my words, she chose to keep quiet and take everything in like the most bitter medicine she could ever swallow down her system. I didn’t peg her for someone who would take anything in without a little fight, definitely not for something she didn’t really wanted. I knew she was someone who would hate being manipulated in any way.

“W-What?”, she squirmed under my scrutiny, her stuttering made me even more confuse about her. I knew how I could make anyone uncomfortable with the way I coldly stare at them. I was raised with the ability of giving nothing but my expressionless face even if I could clearly feel and control my emotions and all.

“Why are you in this kind of place, mi bella? This is not something for someone like you. It’s dangerous and I could see that you are afraid but yet…”, I let my words hang in the air and another minute of silence covered us as we stopped by the sign of traffic.

“It’s none of your business”

“I beg to differ. You are mine now”, f**k! That just slipped out of my tongue before I could even stop myself but luckily she did not made any comment or whatsoever on my remark of her being mine. She may or may not misinterpreted my words, well, then it was as it was. She’s mine, literally or figuratively and every sense of meaning of those words, “so better yet start with your story because I have to know everything I needed to know about you”

“Why can’t we just get down to what’s really the business here? Like the work I am supposed to do for you and you’re mafia. This life is dangerous yes, but I’ve been in this life for along time now so I don’t find anything necessary by me telling the story of my life. That’s absurd and stupid”, she whispered the last one but I heard it anyway.

“Don’t get any stupid ideas here. I just need to know everything there is to you so that I can know how much I can trust someone like you”, the sting I presented was visible by the way she suddenly resort to having a distant look in here eyes. They were beautiful.

“Okay. For now, just know that someone wants to kill me in any way they can so my uncle needed you-- I mean we needed you for that. And it’s a win-win situation since I can do something beneficial for you”

“Really? And how sure and secure are we on your services?”. no offense but she’s a woman.

Instead of answering, she reached for her bag and had her laptop in hand. Morris and I shared a look through the mirror, both confused of what she was doing. After some more or so three minutes, she handed me the device. I noticed the way she carefully and discreetly avoided any skin contact. It was as if she was afraid of it. Her eyes focused on how not to feel any touch of human skin. She even quickly tucked her hands inside the safety of the pocket of her jacket.

Fucking sh*t!f*****g hell!!!

How did--

I clicked another button and saw the current state of my room. My f*****g room inside my f*****g mansion. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, she just hacked into my highly maintained security system in just less than three minutes.

I could clearly saw every part of my mansion on her laptop monitor.

My head snapped to her and she just offered me her sweet innocent smile.

“What happened, mate?”, Morris’ voice rang in my ear.

Ignoring my best buddy’s question, I centered into staring at the woman beside me.

“You’ve got some f*****g skills there, Cherry”, her name rolled out of my mouth as sweet as her smile. I handed back her computer but maybe because we were both somehow caught up in each other, watching and trying to read anything we could, when she got hold of the device, I accidentally had a touch of her soft skin.

If I was surprised of her skill, I’d say, I was even more surprised at her reaction, the cluttering sound on the car floor didn’t even managed to distract me from observing her, she paled.

Tears nearly brimmed in her eyes and I swear, she was so ready to lose her consciousness like the way the color on her face left her.

She was not just afraid.

She was terrified.

Fucking terrified!!!

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Yay!!!! finally I got this story updated. Sorry if I took a long while updating this one, I had to do endless back reads because I seriously already forgotten the details of this story. So if you are going to see some inconvenience or mismatch of this update from the earlier updates long ago :) feel free to comment down.

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