Back to present...
"Anaya is in a vulnerable state right now while trying to be cleansed of all those toxins so she could be clean. But what would happen if someone keeps injecting more into her body? Wouldn't it be a futile attempt"
He sighed and rubbed his face.
'How do I always end up with women as dramatic as this?'
"What do you want?"
"You. It has always been you" she answered immediately. "I want you to come and see me right now, or the next time Anaya has her check up, her entire body system would have failed"
She told him where to meet her and then hung up.
He sighed.
From the corner of his eye, he noticed Zara staring at him skeptically.
"Call the doctor and tell him to check Anaya carefully for any foreign substance"
He ordered and left the room immediately.
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She told him to meet her in the hospital's garden under a large tree.
He caught sight of her first. She had a blue jacket on, white tightly fitted pants, black gloves and wore dark shades.
Her blonde hair fell sharply to her shoulder, and she was looking at her watch impatiently and tapping her foot on the ground.
She turned around anonymously.
A wide smile formed on her face on seeing him.
She walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him, enclosing him in an embrace he didn't bother reciprocate.
He kept his hands in his pockets and had a straight, cold face on.
"Can you at least pretend you're happy to see me?" She pouted, but he remained quiet, staring at her with annoyance and anger.
"Come on, don't tell me you're angry because I gave that whore more sedatives"
"Talk about her with respect or don't talk about her at all"
"So now you decide to talk" her expression changed. "I just don't understand something. What does she give you that I can't give more? What do you see in her that I don't have? Tell me!"
"Didn't I make it clear to you the last time we saw each other that I didn't want to see your face again?" his voice became husky, colder, dark, angry and more intimidating.
"And didn't I make it clear to you that I would never let you go?" She giggled definitely finding this amusing.
His jaws clenched tightly.
"It's funny how I was the one that kept playing hard to get when you were pursuing me" She folded her arms and began circling around him like a predator to their prey except she had nothing but a lustful gaze at him as she bit her lips and studied him from head to toe.
"Now that I'm the one doing the pursuing, you are the one playing hard to get"
She stopped in front of him and placed her hand on his shoulder.
He couldn't stand her.
Sometimes he wondered how he had managed to put up with her for nearly 3 years.
She possessed all the qualities that Don found qualifying to strangle someone for.
And right now his hands were itching desperately to do so.
A smile crossed her face immediately.
"You've become more handsome" she lifted her hand to brush the lock of raven black hair that had fallen over his eye, but he caught her hand and pulled it down.
"You don't like to listen, do you?" His voice sent shivers down her spine. Not in a bad way, but in a satisfying, sensual way that turned her on.
"You don't have the right to touch me. Try it again, and you'll end up being handicapped" he warned.
Jokes aside, now she was boiling with anger.
After all she had done for him, he had decided to dump her for a drug addict who barely trusted him?
He turned to leave, but her next words stopped him in his tracks.
"It's because of her isn't it? You're acting this shitty to me because of Anaya,"
He ignored her and continued walking, but she yelled, "Well continue. Do as much as you can for her. But just know that she will never trust you. I'll make sure of that. And once everything between the both of you has crashed, you'll come back to me pleading and begging to take you back"
He laughed to himself.
She was indeed derilious.
'Maybe we should put her in a psychiatric hospital. It's the least we can do for someone who helped us get those papers we needed"
He turned back to face her, and smiled.
Not a sweet, warm smile, but a chilling, serene one that had more than one meaning attached to it.
Now that made her skin crawl in fear.
"You're to derilious for your own good, Natasha, get yourself checked!" He adviced and left.
She stared daggers at his back as he walked away.
She simply couldn't allow him to do this to her.
He uses her and then dumps her once he feels like.
She might have been crazy for him, but she knew her worth and wasn't going to let him look down on her.
He thought he was the superior one between them? Well be was damn wrong.
Because she was gonna show him who the boss is, and he wouldn't even be able to argue in that moment.
"It's just a matter of time, my love. You'll soon come back to your senses, soon!"
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As he went back into the hospital, he struggled to keep his anger in check.
"Infuriating bitch!" He cursed underneath his breath.
On getting to Anaya's ward, he saw Zara standing outside on a call.
He paused at a distance and waited for her to finish before talking.
"Did the doctor check her?"
"Yes. The drugs he used to flush out the sedatives from her body was still active, so they flushed out the ones that had been 'supposedly' administered to her"
He ignored the attitude in her voice.
"She is awake now, by the way" she announced.
His eyes lit up.
He dashed into the room immediately.
He was so excited to see those blue eyes that expressed a million different emotions that he just couldn't wait.
When he entered, she was sitting half-upright and was leaning against the bed post and some pillows.
The oxygen mask was gone but her eyes were closed, her lips firmly shut against each other, her body encased in a cocoon of perfect stillness.
She still seemed unconscious.
"Love?"
Her eyebrow lifted upwards like a response.
Slowly, she opened her eyes until she was staring at him wide-eyed with those large round owl eyes that had seduced him the first time they met.
A smile slowly spread on his face.
Instinctively, he cupped her face and without hesitation, brought his lips down to meet hers.
She was shocked, but didn't have the strength to fight or push him away.
Funny because she had the strength to flow with it..
He locked his lips around her upper lips sensually, sucking and licking it hungrily.
It sent a feeling of calmness and security rolling through her.
He did the same fir her lower lips, ten he disengaged from the kiss and brushed her lip with his thumb while his eyes flickered between hers and her luscious sweet lips, fighting the deadly battle between temptation.
'Take it easy big guy! She's just regaining consciousness after almost 5 hours of being supported by oxygen'
He stroked her face lovingly with nothing but affection and care in his eyes.
"I'm so glad that you're awake" he declared.
Those words immediately pooled her.
She fought the urge to blush.
They were just words, she reminded herself, but those words were too powerful for her to handle.
But no matter what, she maintained a straight face which seemed to have confused him.
Zara came in, Anaya smiled.
"How long have I been here?" her voice was small and raspy.
"For almost five hours" Don answered.
"Speaking of which, I'm sorry Naya, but I left Ameer with his nanny longer than I planned. I need to check on him. I'll be back later"
"Sure. Thanks for watching me while I was asleep"
"Anytime" she hugged her from the side and left leaving only Anaya and Don together.
The awkward tension between them was inexplicably high.
Don was studying Anaya skeptically, and she was trying to avoid his confrontational eye.
"Are you avoiding me, love?" He asked.
"I don't know. What do you think? Am I avoiding you?"