"No!" she spat back and crossed her arms in front of her chest not willing to move from there.
"Don't piss me off, love!"
"Well you're pissing me off with this overprotective and bossy nature of yours" she snapped.
"I'm not your toy, pet, puppet, or property you can control and command however you like. I have my own will, my own life, my own desires, and I don't need your permission to follow them"
She took a deep breath and stroked her hair as if she was brushing the anger and annoyance off, then she continued in a calmer but fiercer voice.
"I am a 24 year old independent woman. I don't need your rules or orders to be safe, protected, or whatever bullshit reason you have. Heck I even know this place better than you"
He glared at her with angry eyes and rolled his tongue in his cheek.
"And if for any reason I am to go back home now, I have my own car through which I can drive myself back home"
She said and pointed to her car a few meters from where they were.
Don's eyes went wide.
"That's your car?" She nodded proudly with a smirk.
"Are you out of your fucking mind? That's a 20 million dollar car, the only one in the world, which most people already know you have"
"I'm fully aware. Are you jealous of it or something?"
"Jealous? What the fuck? Have you forgotten we're trying to keep a low profile here because we're targets?"
Her gaze softened in realization.
She bit her lips and tried avoiding his gaze.
He pressed his hand to his temple.
"You know what? I'm tired of this shit! You're coming with..."
His phone buzzed and interrupted him.
He removed it from his pocket and saw a message with a photo attached to it.
"I did warn you though that you wouldn't be able to hide from me. You can only run. And look, I have found you"
He opened the photo and froze in shock.
It was a photo of him and Anaya right where they were, with Anaya yelling at him.
"Fuck!" "What's wrong?" He didn't answer her, but began searching their surrounding for any suspicious looking person.
He didn't see anyone, and that only made him more tensed.
"Enter the car, Naya!" He ordered sternly while still looking around.
"Ace, I've told you. I am not..."
"If you at least care about your life you would enter the fucking car!" He yelled, making her shudder a bit.
She searched around the vicinity for whatever he was searching for.
Not seeing anything, she inhaled in vexation, walked towards his car and obediently sat in the front passenger seat, murmuring some cusses as she closed the door behind her.
He entered the car after her, started the engine and immediately drove off.
She glanced at him a couple of times, his brows were tied in an angry knot, his jaws were clenching and unclenching, and his fingers were wrapped tightly around the steering wheel that she was even beginning to pity the wheel.
"Put your seat belt on!" He bellowed.
"I don't want to" "It wasn't an offer but an order"
"Here we go again. Ordering... ordering... ordering. That's all you ever do"
"I'm not your Dad, Naya. So if you think for one moment that I'll listen and agree to your every wish most especially when it comes at the price of your safety and life then think again"
"Keep my Dad out of this conversation. At least he isn't as bossy as you are"
"Well maybe if you could sit down and think about your safety before going off to do something stupid and life threatening, then I wouldn't need to boss you around"
"How is going for a walk in a park stupid and life threatening?"
"It isn't if you aren't on someone's death list, and if you hadn't gone there with a car which has your name written in bold on its plate number"
She kept quiet and turned her gaze outside the window.
He was just unbelievable, and she couldn't stand him.
"I've told you countless times. We aren't on a vacation where you can move about as you like, we came here for safety until I can get the person who wants us-more like-you dead. Until then, you can't just run about like a pretty butterfly. You need to stay down as low as you can"
There was silence in the car for a while, before she decided to talk.
"Do you remember when I asked you to protect me?"
He became confused with her question.
"Me neither. This isn't the first time my life is being threatened, Ace, and each and every time, I come out safe and unharmed. I don't see why I should be scared of this 'mystery hunter', and I most especially don't need you help in any way, direction or form "
He did.
Because he knew how crazy the person hunting for Anaya's life was.
She was fucking crazy, and could rip the entire world apart if it meant getting what she wanted.
And at this point, him being what she wanted.
"I don't need your 'protection'. I can protect myself. So you can as well fuck off!" She spat back and folded her arms across her chest.
He slammed on the brakes of the car abruptly, putting the car on the parking gear.
She was confused for a moment, but that confusion flew away the moment he wrapped his hand around her neck and pressed her head into the head rest behind her.
His grip on her neck wasn't so tight that she couldn't breathe, but she found it hard to do so due to the intensity of his gaze on her.
His rage filled eyes staring deep into hers, and his perfect lips clamped into an disapproving thin line.
Her words were stuck in her throat and kept there by his strong masculine scent.
"I should fuck off? You know, your mouth is really sharp" he remarked and used one finger to brush her lips while he watched with lustful eyes.
His eyes flickered back to hers. "It's about time we changed that" he whispered seductively against her lips and crashed his lips into hers.
She groaned while trying to push him away, but all attempts were futile.
He locked his lips firmly on hers, had his grip on her neck equally as strong, and had his other hand holding her waist just as firmly into the chair.
His kiss was angry, strong, passionate, unrelenting and arousing.
It got her engaged in no time.
He caught her lower lips in his, sucked and licked them relentlessly, causing her to gasp and moan.
He grasped her lip between his teeth and bit them, soothing them with a slow swat of his tongue before letting go.
Panting and breathing heavily, she opened her eyes to see him staring at her with hungry eyes.
She gulped and had colour tainting her cheeks as his hand slidfrom her neck downwards.
All her hopes of him doing anything to her disappeared once he got hold of the seatbelt beside her and inserted it in the lock across her lap.
He sat back in his seat, removed the gear from 'Park' and continued driving.
Not another word ensued between them until they got home.