He pulled her close and hugged her tight and said,

"Listen to my heart. You might think I am lying, but my heart won't".

She listened to his erratic heart going out of the rhythm like it wanted to tell her how deeply and how truly he loved her. She slowly moved her hand and kept it on his chest. She gulped her own spit and then distanced herself from him and said,

"I don't want to listen to your heart or you".

"I don't care what it wants to tell. So just leave me alone Raymond. Please don't toy with me",

She said and begged because she herself was completely incapable of separating herself from his embrace so she was hoping against hope that at least he would listen to her and grant her mercy.

Her words stung his heart. They pierced him and made him bleed to death.

"You think I am toying with you?", he asked with his voice slightly raised because of the anger swarming within him.

"What do I do to make you feel the sincerity in my feelings towards you Akira?"

"She was my past and you are my present. I can't undo what I have done in the past. I can't wipe away my slate clean but in the present, I want to be yours and only yours", He said and cupped her chin in one hand and gently stroked her face.

He lowered his voice and brought his mouth close to her ears and said,

"Can't you feel my sincerity Akira?".

Even though the words which were about to come from her mouth were totally against her heart, she still decided to speak them out.

"No, I don't".

He looked back at her in disbelief and then tilted his head and kissed on her cheeks and asked,

"Now"?

She melted under his touch but she suppressed her moans and said,

"No".

He was a bit annoyed to hear her deny the truth again and again on his face, but he knew that she was lying.

He moved a bit further and kissed under her ears and asked,

"Now?"

She moaned and couldn't resist him any further. Her hands lifted automatically to lock around his neck, but she still managed to whisper,

"No".

He smiled deviously as he had already received his answer. The way her body reacted to him was all that he wanted. He went lower and kissed her lower neck. His kiss was warm and wet and too intoxicating for her. She inched closer towards him and tightened her grip. His kisses didn't stop. His lips swiftly glided from the crevices of her neck to her shoulder. She gasped for air and her nails dug deep into the flesh of his back.

He halted for a brief moment and then asked her again,

"Can you now?",

This time she couldn't say no and embraced him tighter. He ran his fingers in her hair and then held her face with both his hands and hovered around her lips and started running his fingers on his cheeks and whispered on her lips,

"How about now?",

His lips were in such close vicinity that she had lost all her sanctity. He felt her lips quivering on his own and he went ahead to slightly tease them with his. But little did he know that instead of teasing her, he would be breaking his own restraint.

Her lips were captured by his lips. The softness of her lips was so inviting that he couldn't stop himself from exploring further. It was wet, it was intense, it was sensuous to the power infinity. She bloomed and blossomed as he ventured deeper inside and met her tongue. Tides of warmth and waves of dizziness gripped her. Slowly her back arched in response to his touch and he gripped her tighter like he wanted her body to melt in his own.

She was drowned inside an ocean of feelings all sublime. His lips continued imploring further and further all restless. This warmth was something new and brought in a plethora of sensations in her that she didn't even know that she was capable of feeling and before she could realize what was happening, she was kissing him back.

They twined and interleaved each other. The kiss turned deeper and deeper till they both ran out of breath. His hands moved ahead, all eager and pulled her camisole down and he started kissing down her neck. Her camisole dropped down on the floor softly without making any sound. There was just hardly one layer of cloth left between sanity and them. He was ready to breach it but he did not know if she was.

He looked into her eyes all breathless like he was asking for permission. Her head was still hung low. She was trembling, still trying to recover from all the intimacy. She looked up into his eyes and understood the question flooding in them. But she knew that it was her last chance to save herself. So she turned back and covered herself with her arms.

Her turn was enough for him to understand what she wanted. So he stopped himself and doused all the desires burning within his heart and turned back to leave.

"See you tomorrow",

He said and left without even turning back for an answer from her.

He knew she needed time and heavens knew he wanted to give her all the time that he had.