324 The Easier Choice
“Ace…please, let’s stop…” I pleaded desperately.
“Stop, what?” he asked with so interest.
I bit down on my lower lip in frustration before I glared at him as if doing that would send so telepathic ssage across to him. My real frustration stemd from the fact that I was certain that he knew what I was referring to but had chosen to act all innocent.
“We can’t do it here. There are caras…everywhere…” I pointed out without backing down.
Ace stared at
for a mont in silence and that made
feel so open and vulnerable in front of him. I wished that he would stop staring at
like he could see through
even if that was how it was really was. It was bad enough that we were this close and already on cara.
“Do what?” Ace asked before the corners of his beautiful lips curved upwards into slightly teasing smirk.
Slowly, his fingertips stroked their ways down my arm, and I wanted to let out a moan at the fleeting yet pleasurable sensation. He was teasing
rcilessly and I hated myself for responding so much to his playful seduction.
“Tell , what do you have in mind, Rina?” he asked.
His hands slid down my arms slowly before he quickly captured and held onto my wrists. My mind went completely blank for a mont, and I wasn’t sure what to do.
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“Let’s wait till we get ho…or…we can go to your office…” I mumbled.
As soon as those words left my lips, I wanted to die from embarrassnt. However, I couldn’t see another way out. I knew that I should push him away, but it seed impossible. If Ace really started seducing , there was a very high chance that we’ll end up going all the way. I closed my eyes and let out a sigh. To my surprise, the slight pressure of his hands around my wrists disappeared and then I felt Ace moving away from .
When I opened my eyes, Ace was standing at a respectable distance from
with an unbelievably calm expression on his face. To say that I was surprised would be an understatent. However, I did feel very relieved that he seed to have heard my desperate plead for him to stop.
“Are you done with your business down here?” Ace asked.
“Yes…I am…” I replied in a murmur as my mind struggled to take in this sudden change.
“Then follow ,” Ace instructed.
I watched as he turned on his heels and walked toward the exit of the archive. My legs started following him without a mont of hesitation. Suddenly, the archive felt so suffocating and I couldn’t bear to be there any longer. My heart still beat wildly in my chest as I pressed my hand against it and let out another sigh.
“Why did you co down here?” I asked curiously when I caught up to his side.
It felt too awkward to be walking along with him in silence, so I put in all the effort that I had to start a conversation.
“No reason. I was just looking for you and soone in the lobby told
that they saw you heading down here,” Ace replied with a casual shrug of his shoulders.
“Why were you looking for ?” I questioned.
“We should go ho together. I managed to wrap things up decently early so I thought we could go ho together. I did send you a text,” he replied.
“But I thought we already agreed that we’ll head back separately,” I pointed out.
I was too focused on him to realize that we were in fact heading in the direction of the parking building.
“Should we head back to the archive?” Ace asked rcilessly.
He shot
a look that managed to hush
up. I looked around nervously to see if anyone saw us together.
“Stop panicking. I think you should start getting used to this,” he advised.
“You an…” I murmured as I tried my best to keep up with his pace.
“People at work and everywhere else seeing us together,” he pointed out.
I didn’t think that I would have a problem with people seeing us together if it wouldn’t lead to any trouble. However, with how things currently are, there was no guarantee when the consequences of our actions would end up exploding in our faces.
“I just don’t want to stir up trouble,” I argued my case.
“Don’t worry. If anything happens, I’ll handle it…” Ace replied.
With that, he pulled opened the car door and urged for
to get in with a smooth gesture of his hand. Getting into his car or heading back to the archive wasn’t exactly a difficult choice to make. I let out a sigh as I lowered myself into Ace’s car.
“So, tell , what were you doing down there in the archive? Were you looking for sothing?” Ace asked once we were on the road.
I couldn’t get the suggestive look that the guard gave
when he saw
in Ace’s car out of my head. If our relationship gets out to the public, I could be sure that that guard was the source of all the rumors. Ace didn’t seem bothered and I wondered if he placed too much trust on that man.
“Umm…yeah. I go down there sotis to look for inspirations, I guess…” I replied vaguely.
“I bet no one really goes down there. I don’t even rember the last ti I was down there,” Ace said.
“I didn’t even know that the place existed until Jeremy showed ,” I said as I tried to lighten the atmosphere around us.
“When did he show you?” he asked.
“When we were working on Project Alpha together and we were struggling to co up with a way to make the comrcial more emotionally engaging. He suggested that we go down there to look for so inspiration,” I told Ace honestly.
“It must have been useful,” Ace replied before flashing
a smile that I thought was very charming.
–To be continued…
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