Chapter 43 - Forty Two: Surprise Attack

" Get in" Leo commanded and unlocked the door Becca stood in front of.

" But I brought my car, I can't just leave it here," Becca responded and stared at the opened car door then at him. He was still glaring at her and she still didn't know why, all she knew was that he was definitely mad at something.

' Was it something I said?' Becca asked herself.

" I will have someone pick it up, now get in," Leo said and his glaring eyes soften when he saw her getting into the car, then he shut the door. He adjusted on the driver's seat with his chest heaving up and down as he took deep breaths to relax. His face marred with a deep frown and his fingers almost crushed the steering wheel with how harshly he gripped it.

Becca pursed her lips when she saw Leo's frown and made an adorable face. She leaned closer to him and used her thumb to rub the lines on his forehead.

" You will get wrinkles if you keep frowning like that." She teased and Leo shot her a side glare, not liking that Becca was teasing him when she was the reason why he was frowning in the first place. He grabbed her hand and moved it away from his face but didn't let go of it. 

Despite being angry, he still wanted to hold her hand.

" Why would you care if I get wrinkles, you don't even look at me without them," Leo grumbled, still holding her soft hand in his. 

Becca noticed how angry and difficult Leo had become but instead of asking what was wrong, she chose to be difficult as well.

" Hmph! Fine, frown for all I care. When you become ugly, I will just look for someone—" Before Becca could even finish what she was saying, Leo with one swift move, grabbed both her hands with his, firmly and pinned them above her head, forcing her back on the seat. His nostrils flared as he hovered over her. His sharp eyes scanned her and saw how her chest heaved from the surprise attack.

" Never say that again because if you do, you won't like the consequences. You are mine and no one can have you except me, do I make myself clear?" Leo huffed, breathing heavily and his hot breath fanned Becca's face as his face was just inches away from hers.

Leo might have been madly in love with her and was willing to give her everything in the world, let her do whatever the fuck she wanted but one thing he couldn't tolerate was her talking about replacing him with someone else, joke or not, he wouldn't allow it. Never.

Ignoring Leo's rage-filled eyes, Becca stubbornly raised her chin in defiance, and her eyes held a challenging glint in them as she stared straight at Leo's predator ones. He was bigger and stronger than her but she didn't let that intimidate her, she chose to stand her ground.

" I'm not yours, Leo. I don't remember agreeing to it." Becca retorted, increasing the temperature of the inferno burning inside Leo.

" You are, whether you like it or not, you fucking promised." He scolded and squeezed her hands in his fists. His eyes sent vicious warning stares to her but she refused to heed to them.

" I promised not to let other men into my life, not become your woman." She yelled back, angry that he was being so unreasonable, and even scolded her for something she never agreed to.

He said he would wait until she was ready but here he was, forcing her to become his woman. Despite how much she liked him, his anger and vicious nature towards her now pissed her off so much that even though he was the sexiest man alive, which he probably was, she would kick him in the balls.

On hearing her response, Leo harshly pressed his lips on hers and kissed her hard, punishing her for her wrongdoings. Taking her breath away and by the time he broke the kiss, Becca's lips were left red and swollen.

Leo stared at her for a few seconds then let go of her wrists and Becca blinked at him, not even able to say a single word because she was still trying to catch her breath so she could calm down her fast-beating heart.

Leo used his thumb to rub her lips gently and kissed her on the tip of her nose. 

" I don't like it when we argue, I hate being angry at you." He whispered and kissed her temples, causing Becca's eyes to tear up.

" You started it." She sent a punch to his chest and tried to push him off her but he didn't move.

'How much does this man even weigh? Why was he so heavy?'

" Yes, I know and I'm sorry." He apologized, as he felt bad for scolding her like that, and wiped the single teardrop that rolled down her cheek. " I'm sorry for getting angry at you, please don't cry." He wrapped his arms around her and hugged her closer to him.

"Let go of me, Leo." Becca struggled and squirmed in his arms but he didn't let go. He didn't want to let go and just kept her close to him, feeling how fast her heart was beating.

" You are just going to leave me if I do." He argued and held her tighter while Becca felt the urge to bite his ear.

" I won't talk to you ever again if you don't let go." She threatened but the constricting snake called Leo just shook his head, refusing to free her from his clutches.

" I don't care. I don't mind if you don't talk to me ever again as long as I have you next to me." He kissed her, parting her lips with his tongue to devour her deeper and made her moan in pleasure. " I love you and don't like arguing with you but you made me go overboard, you made me punish you," Leo said and caressed Becca's cheeks, wiping the tears that rolled down her eyes with his thumb.

" You were the one who got angry for no reason, how was it my fault?" Becca argued and tried to stop the tears that rolled down her cheeks. She didn't want him to see them, her tears, they weren't for him to see.

" You wanted to replace me with someone else, you wanted to let another man into your life even after promising not to." He said, this time with a calmer voice and she shook her head at him.

" I was joking, I didn't mean it, but you still went ahead to force me to be yours despite saying you would wait for me. Why? Have you grown tired of waiting already? Is that why you want to force me now?" She sent more jabs to his shoulder but instead of hurting him, her hands were the ones that ached in the end.

" I said I would wait for you and that's what I'm going to do. I just don't want to keep waiting for something that is never going to come." 

Becca stopped struggling in his arms and stared at him in disbelief.

" What do you mean by that?" She asked in confusion and Leo gently adjusted the car seat backward and laid on top of her but used his elbows to support his weight so he wouldn't crush her.

" I want to know what you see me as, what I am to you, Becca. I want to know if there's a place for me in your heart or if I'm just wasting my time." He wanted to know, not that it mattered or anything, he would still keep her as his anyway but he needed to know what she saw him as.

But instead of answering, Becca stayed silent, refusing to speak. She couldn't even look him in the eyes anymore and dropped her gaze to the driver's seat beside them.

" Answer me, Becca." Leo urged, literally poking the response out of her.

" Okay, fine. I have feelings for you. Feelings that I don't understand and might not be as deep as yours but they're there and it's slowly eating me up. It has taken over my mind, Leo and it's scary, all this scares me." She confessed and quickly hid her face on his chest in embarrassment. Her face flushed red from both crying and blushing.

Leo bit his lip on a smile as he gazed at how cute she was being. Though he was so pleased by her 'sudden' confession that his heart wanted to jump out of his chest, he still decided not to show his joy so Becca wouldn't think he was doing it all on purpose, which he was. The plan was to extract the confession right out of her and though everything that happened in the car, like punishing her and making her cry, wasn't his intention, it still worked out for the better good.

His good.

" It's nothing to be scared of, Becca. I'm here for you, I'm the one you have feelings for and I will help you with them." He said to her, with his words sounding as tempting as that of the devil's. Trying to lure her into his trap with his sweet words and acts of seduction.

" How?" She peeked at him but quickly hid again when he smiled at her, causing him to chuckle at how adorable she was. She felt the laughter rumbling in his chest and her blush deepened.

" First of all, you have to stop seeing me as just a friend because I'm more than that. You need to stop trying to fight what you feel for me, it's only going to get worst if you don't. It's normal to have feelings, sweetheart, especially for someone like me. Just look at me, I'm irresistible." Leo stroked her hair and his ego at the same time with a smug grin on his face. He caressed her gently with so much tenderness that made Becca feel warm and fuzzy inside.

" Is this your way of sweet-talking me into agreeing to be yours?" Becca asked as she drew weird shapes on his back with her fingers. She didn't know if she was right but had a feeling that Leo was up to something.

" You are already mine, I'm just making sure you understand it." Leo kissed her forehead and smiled at her. " There's no harm in giving in to your desires, my love. It's completely normal." He said and kept feeding her sugar-sweet words until he saw that she was ready to cave.

" What do you know about my desires?" She muttered and rested her chin on his shoulder.

" I know that you want me just as much as I want you, I also know that you are afraid of it but your curiosity overrides the fear and you don't have to worry. I will teach you and show you whatever you want to know." Whatever you need to know.

" Really?" She raised her eyes to meet his and smiled.

' Fuck it, up to something or not, Leo was just too handsome in the afternoon to resist.' Becca said in her head as she fell deeper into his candy trap that was covered with sweet words and his sexiness.

" Yes, but you have to do something for me first," Leo said and smiled back at her.

" What is it?" Becca asked with creased brows, cutely tilting her head to one side.

" Let me in, sweetheart.. Tell me what hurt you, I'm curious as well."