Chapter 4. Unwanted Feelings

Ivanna Pov's 

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I was staring at this strange person without blinking. I don't know why I felt something magical about him. 

"It is not stupid to find someone attractive in the first meeting only but it is stupid to find a drunk stranger attractive" My mind mocked my heart.

"I know, I'm handsome" I came to my senses when he spoke and sat straight. My heart was beating at a higher speed reminding me that I'm still alive. After separation from Stefan, this is the first time I'm feeling something for someone and my heart was beating at this speed.

"No... don't forget what happened in the past, Ivanna... Love is meant to break people" I thought and took a deep breath to calm myself.

"Someone is calling you" I look at his side and then at my phone which was on silent mode. I click on the earbud to pick up the call.

"Where the fuck are you Ivanna" I heard my brother yelling at me from the other side.

"What happened?"

"You went out without security and now asking me what happened" He yelled at me again. I took out one earbud to prevent myself from getting deaf.

"I'm fine"

"I asked where are you?" He asked furiously.

"I'm outside for some work" I muttered, not wanting to worry him by telling him about the accident.

"Ivanna… come back home right now. I just got a warning from my enemy. He warned me today he will kill the most important person of my life and everyone in the underworld knows that I only care about you and you're my weakness" 

"Is it my fault that you're" I clamped up realising, I'm seating with someone. 

"Wait over here" I muttered and hopped down from the car and went to the side to talk to my brother.

"It's not my fault brother that you're involved with the mafias... Stop bothering me and what will they do? They will kill me right... then it will be great if they do because I also don't want to live in this freaking world" I growled.

"Shut up, Ivanna. I didn't call you to hear your nonsense... send me your location... if you can't come then I'm coming to pick you up." 

"I want to die and if your enemies want to kill me then believe me it's a favour of them on me" I muttered and cut the call before he would have said something. I sighed and wiped my tears before going back to the car. My eyes went to the stranger who was looking at me without any expression.

"What happened?" 

"You tell me what happened that the smile on your face turns into a frown" 

"It's none of your business.'' I snapped at him and was about to start the car when he held my hand and moved closer to my face.

"Wh---What are you doing?" I stuttered, feeling his hot breath near my face, giving goosebumps all over my body. My mind was yelling at me to push him away but my heart wanted to get into this moment and as the biggest stupid of this entire world, I listened to my heart and closed my eyes, waiting to feel his lips over mine.

"I'm not kissing you" I opened my eyes upon hearing him and in the next second I heard the sound of the seat belt locked. I look at my corner and then at him. It didn't take me long to figure out that he came close to me to make me wear my seatbelt. 

"You look disappointed as if you were expecting something from me," He asked with a smirk on his lips. 

"I wish I could smack your handsome face" He chuckled at my reply and sat straight.

"If you want you can." He said with a beautiful smile on his face. I may sound poetic but his smile always makes me lose my heart to him. I turned my face in another direction, not wanting to smile in front of him.

"Love is a foolish thing, Ivanna... Don't forget it brings only torment in life" I muttered to myself.

"You have all right over me, butterfly" I look at him abruptly, not expecting to hear something like that.

"You can beat me if that makes you happy," He muttered. I raised my hand to see if he was genuinely saying those words or if it was all empty talk to impress. I stopped my hand when he called his eyes, ready for a slap. A smile appeared on my face. 

"Why does he need to look so cute and handsome at the same time?" I thought and cursed my heart for this unwanted feeling for this stranger. I was staring at him. That's when my eyes went to his ear... He was wearing my earbud which I kept on the car seat. 

"You heard my conversation with my brother?" I asked, getting vexed at the way he was getting involved in my life... First, he strangely became the person in front of whom I cried for the first time after I left Vince and then now he is interfering in another problem of my life, my brother because of whom I had to cage myself with hundreds of security guards.

"What if I say, I did?" He asked with a smirk. 

"Then pay for it" I muttered and was about to take out my gun from the back pocket of my jacket when suddenly he put my earbud into my ear making me realise it was not mine airpods but his. He was listening to soft music. I looked at him and carefully kept my gun back, not wanting to terrify him.

"You're short-tempered," he laughed. I shook my head and looked for the pair of my earbuds but it was nowhere to be found.

"Where did it go?" I frowned.

"Search for it later... Right now, please take me to the hospital. My leg is hurting" He mumbled.

"Shoot… I'm so sorry. I totally forgot about it" I apologised and started the car.

"You scared me with your look when I asked you the question about hearing your conversation" he mumbled.

"Why? you think I will shoot you for messing up with me" I cracked up at his innocence. Poor soul doesn't know I would have shot him for hearing my conversation. Mafia is a risky thing and I can't risk my brother's life with a random stranger.

"Well seeing your anger, I can say that you badly want to kill me" he laughed but then shut his mouth when I glared at him angrily. He kept his finger on his lips.

"Now I will not say a word but please don't look at me with so much love" 

"It will be better for you if you don't utter a single word to me" I yelled and drove towards the nearby hospital.

"Did you ask someone to follow you?" He asked.

"What?"

"Yeah... that red car is following us" I looked to my side and found a red car just behind me. I gulped, realising that my brother's fear was true. His enemy found my location and wanted to kill me. I look at the stranger.

"I can't put your life in danger" I mumbled.

"Sorry?" 

"Do you love racing?" I asked with a grin and increased the speed of the car, earning a yell from him. I looked at him with my side eyes and laughed after finding a shocked, horrified, and dead expression on his face.

"We are going to have fun baby" I laughed and increased the speed of the car to the fullest.

"I lied about imagining anyone" I look at him abruptly, not expecting to hear that. 

"I lied that I imagined someone while kissing you. I didn't know about the bottle before, that's why I kissed you, and believe me it was not for fulfilling your wish but I wanted to do it before dying. I wanted to kiss you as no one did. Even right now when I'm feeling like I would die today, I want to kiss you again with the same intensity and love" I pressed the break, not expecting to hear his confession. My heartbeat rose with his words. I look at him and then follow his gaze, only to find lots of people surrounding our car... Definitely not to greet but to kill us.

"I know, I fucked up" he muttered.

"Yes... you did" I replied, staring at him. He genuinely fucked up... He fucked up by raising unwanted feelings in my heart which I buried a long time ago. He fucked by confessing his feeling when death is standing on our door.