The moment was cut short when the guards again caught ahold of her and she struggled again to free herself.
"Don't leave...I love you, Ryan Del Cardoso..."
"I love you...I really do...I have for a long time now..."
Ryan did not do anything. He could not even believe his ears right then. His mind was still trying to get away from the moment of the kiss.
It was out there suddenly. She abruptly landed herself on him and then crashed her lips right against his without giving a moment to act.
And now the confession of love. ....he had come across such confessions a lot of times but none of those made him halt in the process.
Alister was breathing high from the kiss. Her heart was beating erratically. She could not even explain her own actions to herself.
All she knew was that she needed to get closer to this man anyhow and waited for any kind of reaction from his side. And when she did not receive any, she continued but got interrupted by him.
"Who the fuck are you even??"
She despised the way he was addressing her. She could taste the distaste from his mouth on hers, or the way his eyes narrowed as if he was sick of her very sight.
That made her think twice if she wanted to get closer to this man just by fakely confessing her undying love to him. She did not even know if it would work or not but that was the best she could do.
"I'm...I m a maid in the house of Stephensons...I.I have seen you..watched you from afar.."
"How?? I have never visited their house yet..."
He cut her short within a second and that made her even more nervous. His voice was menacing.
"I...ugh...I mean the magazines..tabloids.Televisions...news.....newspapers.."
"Stop...stop right there..."
He got irritated by her silly tactics of pointing out and naming every place she saw him.
He could then conclude that this was just another case of some psycho crazily rushing over him.
"Please..."
"Please what??"
He barked. That made her whole body shake but she did not let go of the tiny bit of confidence she had and tightly held onto its end.
"Please..just give...give me a chance..."
"Please...please..."
Alister did not know what else to mutter. She was slowly and slowly running out of words...running out of confidence and darkness.
His intimidating steps towards her made her even shiver. She was vulnerable here but he was not. He held the strike of power while she had nothing...but only to bow down in his mercy.
"And why do you think I should even bother to think to give a chance to a dirt poor like you??"
He howled right before her face. He was so...so close to her...too much close for her liking.
She could not even push him a little away from her body with her hands as they were being held on either side by the dumb guards.
"Because...because I love you..."
Alister mouthed out confidently. She knew one thing that the only thing that was keeping him here was her confidence. If not for that, he would have left way earlier.
She was also aware of the fact that he had come across love confessions like hers a million times maybe but she would have to make hers a bit different for him to even consider her to hang out for another time.
"Everybody loves me, Cinderella. "
He chuckled as he playfully touched the tip of her nose mockingly. She moved her head sideways trying to get rid of his touch.
"But nobody will ever love you the way I would."
Alister vehemently declared. There was a silence for a while after that.
He observed her clean face from the middle of her temple to the fiery eyes, the reddened tip of her nose ending on the pale red lips that were pasted on his moments ago.
Alister noticed him staring at her lips which made her hotter...she gulped the saliva down her throat anticipating what he might do next.
But then...then..she saw something which she could not even believe if she was seeing right.
The guard behind him was holding a knife sideways, pointed in the direction of Ryan. She turned sideways to check if the other two guards holding her were also seeing what she was seeing.
But then it was confirmed that even when they saw, they were not doing anything. They were all in one team and they were not even Ryan's guards so it made sense then.
She knew she would have to work her mind up very fast to think about what to do and what not to do.
Someone must have paid these guards to kill Ryan when nobody was around. Plus this place was only booked by him which made sense.
For a moment she thought if Blake sent those guards but then she could not believe that he would stoop that low to kill his brother to get his part of the share.
Ryan moved even more closer to her practically leaving no space between their living body.
His frontal pasted to her frontal...his hard chest pressed against her pulp ones..their heart touching through the cover of their flesh as both breathed at the same time.
When he leaned in to claim her lips, Alister kicked him sideways, and then a hurling cry of pain echoed in the hall.
Ryan fell to the ground losing his balance but then turned to see her being dropped by the guards as they ran away from the place.
She clutched onto her abdomen, blood spurting out from the wound, the knife stuck inside.
She fell down on her knees, her mind slowly..slowly losing sense. The golden dress was turning red in color.
He wanted to chase those bastards but then he decided to hold her. He supported her head on his lap.
He could not believe that this stranger who was claiming to love him seconds ago took the knife for him. Her eyes were red and watery as she eyed him tiredly.
"Help...call 911..." He shouted.
"I mean it. I..I do love you, Ryan Del Cardoso.."
That was all she could say, tracing his cheek with her right hand before losing consciousness.
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