"Let go of me, you blockhead!!"
"Let me go!!" Ariana screamed at the top of her lungs and used her elbows to hit the arm that was on her waist.
"Ma'am, if you don't leave immediately, I'm going to have to call the cops," the guard threatened in her ear.
"Call them, you moron, call them!!" she yelled.
"Let go of her," a deep voice that belonged to a male cut across the air which made them stop in the middle of their banter.
The guard followed the instructions and let her go and he stepped aside to reveal the man who had spoken.
Ariana watched as he strode down from the building, walking towards her with another man at his side. He was dressed in a maroon brown suit which was covered by a grey long coat that stopped at his calves and a thick scarf was placed on his neck to shield the cold.
As he got closer, she got the opportunity to admire his perfectly crafted features as his hard, rectangular chiseled jaw was gritted with his thin lips which had turned red due to the frosty weather, and his high cheekbones placed rightly with his honey-brown eyes set on her as he walked.
By the time he stopped right in front of her, his thick eyebrows were raised in question as he ran his eyes over the tip of her head to the brim of her toes as the snowflakes fell on his hair gently.
Ariana took in a huge gulp as she blinked back profusely.
She wasn't one to believe in love at first sight but if that cliche phenomenon did exist, he would be the perfect example, but her? Nah!
She wasn't normally one to fidget but his gaze felt like he was undressing her and leaving her naked body to grow goosebumps in the freezing temperature outside.
What a weird bloke! She clicked her tongue in her head as she stared at him with the equal ferocity he gave her.
She noticed his lips move up an inch to the side as he seemed amused by her which made her even more baffled.
Did he just scoff at her?!
Jared kept his indifferent gaze on the lady standing in front of him Being so close to her, he could see her face clearly and he was honest enough to admit that she looked almost a hundred times more s beautiful than he saw her from afar.
He watched as she blinked her long lashes at him, probably dazed by his gaze(he got that a lot), before she changed her gaze and added more fire to it and that only amused him which made him smirk a little at her cuteness.
"I apologise, sir. I told the lady we were closed but she wouldn't listen," the guard bowed his head.
"It's okay," Jared nodded his head at the guard.
"Told? Told?! You didn't simply just TOLD me, you dared pushed me off like a beanbag, you used violence instead of peace," Ariana said with a glare.
"Sir, I-" the guard was flustered at her exaggeration.
"What? Are you going to lie that you didn't touch me? Ha, the nerve of men nowadays!" she huffed out.
"And you!" she turned an accusing finger at the man in front of her who merely looked down at her white-colored fingernail.
"Are you the stuffed-up boss who ordered for this place to be locked? Have you no shame?..."
A series of gasps filled the air as the guards were shocked at the pure audacity of this lady but Jared's face remained stoic as ever, if anything, he looked even more amused.
"Why would you lock the ice rink at this crucial time of the season without notice beforehand? Don't you have any conscience? People must have made plans to come here and spend time with their family only for it to be cancelled because of an unfeeling hardhearted male like you." Ariana ranted.
"Who the hell do you think you are?"
"The legal owner of this place," Jared answered.
"What?" Ariana raised an eyebrow.
"I am the owner of this place and I have the right to close this place whenever I want to, be it in the middle of winter or the middle of the day. Why?" he leaned closer.
"Because it's none of your business," he stated and Ariana's eyes widened further.
"I apologise on behalf of my guard's unruly behaviour towards you but he was merely doing his job and he was right when he said we are closed for the season. So leave," Jared said and turned back without another look.
Then he was grabbed by the neck.