Chapter 44. Clash of Ice and Fire (4)

Adam’s POV

What is damn wrong with me, huh? How can she be making me all hot and wild, and yet I cannot seem to get her fucking name right, huh?

“Ayana Salma is my name, but it will still be better if my name does not stick into your rotten skull, because there can never be us,” she adds, of course, with so much bitterness and detest.

Now that slapped me with a sense of hurt. Her feisty rejection strokes my demons. She cannot say no. She cannot reject me for fuck’s sake! I cannot accept to be rejected by her. “You cannot say no to this. This must happen. I…” I waver, listening to the rebounds of my own words.

Wait, I thought I didn’t want this? I agree. I made a promise to my parents to make her agree to this, but why am I feeling this way? Why am I sounding as if I now want this for my self’s sake and nothing or no one else’s? What kind of charm is this woman using?

She bridges the gap between us, and I hear my heart doing some rapid thumps, rel