Heated Hearts

Forever?

|| Aster's POV||

"You look cute when you blush,little girl." Rayven put a few strings of hairs behind my ears as he smiled.

But it didn't reach his eyes,his lips formed in a straight line.

Now that I thought about it, among all the times he had smiled in front of me most of the times I didn’t see it reaching his eyes.

Specially the smiles he had been flashing at everyone for the past few days.

There was something in those ocean blue eyes of his,that called out to me when our eyes locked.

Sadness flashed through them yet again,and my heart clenched at it.

Subconsciously, I placed my palm over his cheek. I didn’t realize what I was doing,untill I had done it.

He stiffened under my touch and I pushed my body up, balancing on my another elbow.

I saw his eyes noticing my movements, while he stood still like a statue.

Softly, I pressed my lips on his cheek and whispered a small thank you in his ear before returning under the duvet.

I swear I felt him smelling me in when I was close to him.

"You didn’t need to kiss me to say thank you, did you?" Rayven asked arching an eyebrow at me.

There...

Dear sire, ruined the fluttering in my heart and killed the butterflies in my belly with his mandatory teasing.

"You!"

Threw a pillow at him and he dodged, chuckling.

"Get some rest little girl, and make sure not to make me occupied in your dreams; cause you know I have a bit work to do." He winked at me, smirking.

Before I could say anything,Rayven left my room with that stupid smirk of his, plastered on his face.

Once he left the room, I couldn’t help but bury my face in between my palms as I laughed like a lunatic.

I closed my eyes, with a satisfied smile plastered on my lips.

Sniffing in his unique smell that now lingered on my body because of his tee shirt that I'm wearing, I let it all lull me to sleep.

***

I wake up feeling slight caress on my cheeks and hair.

"Mmm...Let me sleep." I hummed in between my sleep.

A different kind of warmth enveloped me and I leaned in more into it, seeking comfort as I drifted again into deep slumber.

***

The sun was shining brightly from where I lied down, but not even a single drop of it's ray was touching me as I was lying down in the shadows of the big oak trees.

A smile lingered on my lips as I kept my eyes above.

The grasses soft like muslin cloth, under me provided me with necessary comfort as I took in vast amount of air to satisfy my lungs.

"I love you," A familiar voice said.

The warmth and genuineness that came with the sentence was enough to broaden my smile.

"Forever?" I asked turning my head towards him.

His blue eyes sparkled with happiness as he led one of his hand caress my cheek.

Rayven held my hand and pressed it on the left side of his chest, so I could feel the rhythmic beats of his racing heart as he uttered the next word.

"Forever. As long as this heart beats." he whispered, just loud enough for me to hear.

My eyes shot open as I tried to look cluelessly as to realize where I was. I sighed, when I realized it was my own room.

The raining outside had stopped but it was dark. As the lights were off, it felt like Nighttime or was it actually nighttime.

How long did I sleep?

I tried to get up, only to realize the weight that was pressed against my waist.

For the first time I realized after waking up that I was embraced in between two strong arms.

As my groggy state suddenly disappeared, I was now very much conscious about the evened breathing that fanned against my neck.

I lied there for quite some time before finally deciding on what to do.

Carefully, I slid one of my hand under his ones that were snaked around my waist.

I took another few minutes, before slightly pushing his hand up to make enough space for me to turn over.

With each step I took, I gave a few minutes for it to adjust so his slumber wouldn’t be disrupted.

When I was finally able to turn towards him, I sighed in relief.

Phew, that was the most careful I've been in my whole life!

Now his face was facing mine. His eyes were closed. For the first time, I noticed how long his eye lashes were.

His pointed nose and chiseled jaw, the stubbles that were grown all over his cheeks and his moistened slight pink lips ; he was like a painting that I could watch all day.

I had the sudden urge to run my hand over his skin and my hands itched to do so, giving me a hard time to control my urge.

After arguing with myself for quite some time, I finally mustered enough courage or more like lost the battle of resistance.

I gave in to my desire as my hands consciously moved towards his face. Gently, pressing my palm on his cheek ; I found myself smiling.

It was weird how much happy that small interaction made me...

My heart skipped a bit when he leaned into my touch, moving his face closer to mine.

I momentarily froze when he started moving, but thanked God when he didn’t wake up but only shifted.

But now...

He was dangerously close to me and I could feel his breaths caressing on my lips, making it tingle.

My whole body was reacting to his closeness.

Our lips were only a few centimeters away from each other and I was thrown in a dilemma as another desire flew inside me.

And his parted lips surely didn’t help with the sudden urge to lean in and capture them in between mine...

Among all that dilemma, doubts, self consciousness, rapid heartbeat only a sentence echoed through my mind ;

❝Forever...As long as this heart beats.❞

And that was all it took to enhance the invisible magnetic pull between us and without another thought, I smacked my lips into his ones.

It was probably the stupidest thing I had done in my life but for some reason it didn’t feel wrong to me.

All my doubts, hesitation had finished the moments our lips collided.

My sudden action broke his sweet sleep and at first he didn’t respond at all as I kept kissing him.

Soon,he tried to move away. But I didn’t know what came into me as I slid my hands behind his head, deepening the kiss.

My eyes moistened as teardrops gathered in them, I desperately moved my lips against him while my hands clutched on the back of his head pushing him into me.

With a silent voice desperately crying inside me I held him, as tightly as I could like he was my one and only resort in this whole world.

"Don't move away, don't leave me. Don't pull away," desperate voice cried inside me, trying to make him listen to my silent pleadings.

But he didn’t hear them... as he pulled away forcefully.

I couldn’t meet his eyes as I looked down, panting slightly.

A stinging pain was felt in my heart,and it felt like a sharp object had stabbed through my heart.

The rejection, the humiliation, the fear, the loss... it all felt like strangling me as I struggled to breath.

I turned away from him as tears of agony left my eyes...