Page 145 of Storm
After eating, everyone decided to order teas and coffees. So keeping my share of bill for the breakfast, I excused myself and went outside. I stood leaning against the car to wait for everyone, when a couple of minutes later, a shadow spread on me and blocked the sun. Quite literally!
Aariz was standing in my space. So close that our shoes touched. He had me caged against the car, though he wasn’t touching me at all. Yet I felt him all over me.
Before I could grasp what was happening, with his heated gaze on me, Aariz slipped his hands inside the pocket of my trouser, which was tight. I immediately glanced down to see him slipping the money I had left on our table in the restaurant. Did I mention my trouser was tight? So I felt his hand right to my skin as he prolonged bringing it out of the pocket.
Free of his touch, I found a voice and breathed out,
“Everyone shared the bill.”
He wasn’t touching me anymore, but hadn’t stepped away either.
He just murmured back,
“I know.”
Then pushing his hand forward, Aariz offered me an ice cream cone. He had two.
“I didn’t want...” I tried to deny, but he brought it to my lips cocking his head, as he said intensely,
“You always do want it.”
I needed to breath and process this. So having no option, I took the damn ice cream before he forced it into my mouth.
I started to lick on it while Aariz still didn’t make any attempt to move, just kept staring at me, pushing the hair strands away from my face.
I felt he had longed to do it, since he saw me doing the same in car. Or maybe it was just my wishful thinking.
He went on with the same heated look,
“It’s not chocolate flavour. But this is good too. Custard apple. Unique. Just like...”
With Aariz's fingers on my jaw, I gasped softly making the ice cream spill on my shirt.
“As I said, unique, just like your outfit combination.” He gave me a slight smile rubbing the stain on the neckline.
“Nobody would even realize...” Aariz whispered, his finger moving on the bare skin of my collarbone.
I shivered visibly and Aariz leaned more into my face, speaking in my ear as if to elaborate,
“The stain. It’s white. No one would see it on your white top.” Caressing his thumb along my collarbone, far from my shirt, he made my breathing abnormal.
“Guys, let’s get going.” Came voices from the other side, making Aariz quickly melt away from me.
We all sat inside the car. This time I was at front with him.
“Aariz you didn’t eat your ice cream yet?” Zee asked as Aariz inserted the key into ignition, while still clutching on his wrapped ice cream cone.
“Yeah, I completely forgot about it. Now I'm driving, so I can't.” Aariz responded and moved his hand backwards waving the ice cream, “Anyone? Umber?”
“Nah...I just had coffee.” Umber said politely, as she closed her eyes to sleep.
Aariz shoved the cone at me wordlessly. I just shook my head gesturing at my own that I was licking on.
Nodding, he started to drive with one hand, while eating his ice cream in between.
“You are planning to kill us or what?” Zee yawned as he too started to doze off.
Aariz stopped eating completely.
