I Made A Deal With The Devil
Chapter. 29

Eva could not help but feel her defenses crumble one after another, just like the sandcastles on the beach being dissolved by the crashing waves by the sea. All that happened just by her listening to the sound of his voice. It was so much deeper, huskier, and darker than usual. And she could feel it weaving its dark magic through her, seducing her, luring her, hypnotizing her. She felt his long fingers slightly tighten around the sides of her face. His eyes seemed to have turned into devouring pools of darkness and she could not bring herself to look away. She could not do anything else but stare at all that gorgeousness that was on display before her.

Before she knew it, his hand was already at the back of her neck, grasping lightly as he supported the weight of her head in the palm of his one hand. Part of her wanted to protest at the treatment he was subjecting her to.

The warning bells ringing louder than ever at the back of her mind, screaming at her that this whole thing was a bad idea in the first place. That letting him in was a dangerous move on her part. She should try to think of some ways to maybe convince him or reason out with him... or perhaps replace a loophole that she could bend the favour to be on her side. But damn it. Her mind just did not seem to be working. More like her mind did not want to work. It had gone on strike and had shut down in favour of just enjoying the pretty display her eyes were feasting on. His gaze, his closeness, his voice... his scent... everything about him just filled all her damned senses and now she felt like she was somehow being put totally under his spell. Without any way out apparently. Fine!

She was going to do it and get this done with. Just this once. She swore to herself that this will be the first and last time she would ever allow this kind of situation to happen again. As if he saw and understood the surrender in her eyes, a ghost of a smile flashed across his dark eyes. And like a predator who could no longer waste any moments in wanting to taste its prey, his mouth was against hers once again.

She immediately opened her mouth to give him access, not even waiting for a few more seconds. She wanted him to finish it as fast as possible. What she did made him pause in his tracks for a while, but he seemed to just shrug it off almost in an instant. She stiffened her entire body. Screaming at herself, reminding that she should not be touching him. Reciting one of the ridiculous conditions in her mind, it seemed to have worked somewhat. 'Condition #1.1: Party A must not touch Party B while kissing Party B.'

When his arm slid around her back and pulled her against him, Eva clenched on her fists. She could feel the solid and unyielding body of his pressing up against hers and she felt like her system was going awry. Then his tongue smoothly slid inside her mouth. The silken touch shocked her, and she could no longer keep her body stiff. It was like he had put a drug in her mouth using his skilful hot tongue that had quickly melted away all her stiff muscles. Her plan on wanting to keep acting like a lifeless log until he was done was no longer possible no matter how much she forced herself. Why... oh why... how could this devil taste like... a slice of heaven himself?!

He tangled his tongue with hers, licking everywhere and anywhere as if he was planning to claim everything as his. Oh god... what was this? Were kisses supposed to be like this? Her head started to spin as her senses were being overwhelmed. The sensation seemed to invade every nerve in her body, making her writhe from the undeniable sweetness of it. And she could not... could no longer... fight it anymore...

Now she was doing what she swore she would never do. She was kissing him back. And when she thought that nothing could possibly be more intense than the way he was kissing her, she was proven wrong almost immediately. Because the moment she responded, his kiss suddenly morphed into something completely... oh gods, she could not even think anymore...

The slow and passionately sensual kissing a while ago seemed to have moved to a whole new level as he possessed her mouth. He played, stroked, suckled and more that a moan had slipped helplessly from her throat. It was all spinning out of her control now. Well, if she was honest to herself, she never was in control in the first place. She had absolutely had no idea. Never thought in a million years that a kiss could be like this. She never thought it could be this deep, this good, this all-consuming.

He did not seem to want to relent. His tongue explored her thoroughly, entered her over and over as if he never wanted to stop. Starting another kiss before the previous one had quite finished. And she could do nothing but writhe in bewildered pleasure. Pleasure that she had never felt before. Pleasure that she never knew was possible. Her hands were on his chest. They were just pressing against him as evidence of her failed attempt to push him away. There was no way she could resist anymore, even if she forced herself. Because right now, even her legs seemed to be losing their strength as well. Gods... she was right all along. This man was truly... as dangerous as hell itself!

Then he released her. He tore his mouth off hers as if something had jolted him. She could not quite see his expression due to the haze that had fogged up her eyes once their mouths parted. But she could tell that the both of them were breathing so heavily. It took her a long while to shake herself out of that shocking experience.

The first thing she realized when she gathered her wits was the feel of his hands steadying her. Then she realized that her hands were fisting on his shirt so tightly as though to support herself from falling over. Slowly, she loosened up her grip then immediately pushed away and turned around. Without a word and without another glance back at the man, Eva staggered towards the door and left his room.

She was still panting hard as she ran towards her room which was not all that far from Gage's. When she shut her door behind her, she slid to the floor as if her legs had turned to jelly. They had totally lost their strength. Oh my god, Eva... She looked so bewildered as she buried her red face into her palms.