The next morning, when Lifen woke up. She was very happy. The love, concern and care which Deming has shown her last night was enough to make her forget all pains in her heart. She has decided that she let the past remain in the past.
Though no reasons can justify her grandfather and Yang Yuzhe's actions yet she can't go on blaming them for the whole life when things are getting good at the end. She tilted her head to look at the man who was still sleeping so beautifully. Looking at him like this so early in the morning made her heart feel content.
"This man has officially become mine yesterday", she murmured to herself as her fingers lifted up to reach his face.
Pushing the stray hairs that had come out on his forehead back to its position, she slowly caressed his forehead then moved toward his thin pair of lips taking the way of his sharp jawline.
"Aioo! This man is so handsome that it can put the whole world to shame. How was I able to bag him? Am I the luckiest one in this world", she questioned herself, thinking that her words were not audible to anyone as the only man present in the room was sleeping.
"Ahh ouch!!" a scream left her lips when she suddenly felt a stinging pain on her fingers. The man bit her fingers hard when she was grazing his lips, putting all her guards down.
Snapping her hand back with a jerk, she glared at Deming who was giving a smug expression to her, like he had won some kind of battle. "You … what … you bit me", she hissed in both anger and little pain.
"That was an early love bite, sweetheart! Don't make it sound like I have got an extra marital affair here", he said with a chuckle, running his fingers through his messy hair while still lying on the bed.
"You … were you pretending to sleep just now?", Lifen asked as she picked a cushion from behind and threw at him.
Without giving any much effort, the man caught it and defended himself with all innocence. "How can I pretend in front of you? I was sleeping for real but my sleep was only beautiful and deep because you were with me here. So when you woke up, I was also out from my pretty dreamland"
Lifen narrowed her eyes at him and without any hesitation gave a punch on his shoulder, "Liar! If you were already out of your sleep then why did you pretend that you were still sleeping? Don't you know that it's not good to hear anyone else's words when they did not want you to hear?"
Her lips formed a cute pout at the end of her words. She has seriously thought that he was sleeping, otherwise in no way she would have said those words on his face.
Why would she? Her words would only make him feel more and more narcissistic. So she would have never praised him if she knew that he was not in his sleep rather was only pretending to sleep.
"What is there to not hear? You were clearly praising me for my charms. And if that was not for me to hear then who else was in our room to hear it. Don't say that those words were for some other man?" he said turning his body towards her while propping his head up on his hand.
Lifen bit her lips. It was the same as what she had thought. This man was again being a shameless narcissist here.
"What are you talking about? Of course that was not for you. Don't I have something better to do early in the morning? Why would I praise you without any reason? Those words were for a male model our company signed last week. Erica has sent his portfolio to me so I was just praising his looks. He is really quite good and can also be named as a woman charmer."
She said as she sat up and was about to get down from the bed, her back coming to his line of sight. But before she could even move a pair of strong arms wrapped around her from behind and pulled her into his embrace.
Lifen was all stumped. She was about to voice out her words, asking him for the reasons behind his action but it was already late. The man has swiftly spooned her from behind, placing his face on the nape of her swan neck.
"Say that again", he probed.
"W – What?"
"That those words were not for me but for some other man", his words coming out all smoother like some chocolate smoothie, tempting her senses. He paused his words to give out a warm breath near her ears. Living with her for so many days, he has already known that her ears were her weakest spot. A spot that will make her go weak in just a matter of a few warm breaths.
"I – I … yes … I mean yes, it was…"
She tried but like he has said she has already gotten weak with her power of thinking. Her head was getting all muddled up. She tried her best to get her words out but there was no success.
"What? So you are actually praising some other man this early in the morning? Especially when I am right next beside you?", he asked again. His arms caging her more into him, to an extent where she was able to hear two heartbeats beating like one.
"Little Cat! Do my self – control looks that tough to you that hearing you saying those words for some other man, I would be able to control myself? Don't you know how competitive I am, especially when you are in the question?" he said lightly grazing her ears with his lips and his hand already making its way inside her top touch her flat, soft belly.
"I … Deming, let's stop … stop this here", she was on the verge of losing everything. Her eyes had already been closed in the anticipation of his further action.
"No, first give me the answer. Don't you feel that I might get out of control just to let you know how good I can be in the things you have yet not experienced?" he said sucking on the skin of her collarbone, with an intention to give a soft love bite.
That was it. That kiss was enough to make her lose her all her reasons. She was about to get drowned in that feeling of strong euphoria when suddenly everything stopped.
The arms that were wrapped around her, got loosened as the man swiftly made his way out of the bed. Life turned to look at him all confused. What does he mean by that?
"Deming?" she called, not knowing how she should react with this situation.
The man turned nonchalantly. His expressions not giving anything. "What? Is there anything?" he asked like nothing has happened between them moments before. Like all that she has felt earlier was just an illusion. Like she was just having some dream.
"You … you are the most shameless person on this earth. Hmph! I am not going to talk with you", she said as she got up and stomped her feet hard on the floor.
"What? Do you want something? Ask me and I will give. You don't have to curse me for that", Deming said with a smirk. Since she has thought to torture him then he should also let her know that he could do the same.
"No! I don't have anything to say or ask you. It's already late and I have to go back to the office. I need to check out the new fashion models, our brand has signed", she said with a huff of frustration and stomped into the bathroom without looking back for another time.
After getting a long shower, Life came out and looked around to find the man. He was sitting on the side sofa looking into some magazine to pass his time. Her lips twitched looking at him all calm and composed, after giving her such a torture early in the morning.
She hmphed hard to let him know her presence and then without sparing any other glance she walked inside the closet.
Deming looked at her and his lips curled up in the amusing then walked inside smile. "Um … she looks good like this. My Wild Little Cat!" he said to himself and then walked inside the bathroom to take his shower.
When he was done with his shower he got out. Looking around the room, he could not find Lifen. His eyes got trailed towards the closet. The door was still closed. "So she is still inside", he concluded and then walked to it.
Knocking at the door he waited but even after quite some time the door did not open. He knocked again and was about to call out to ask, if everything was alright but before he could the door opened leaving him all surprised and dumbfounded.