Before I knew it he was dancing with a random blue-eyed blonde girl I recognized from school but I couldn't exactly pinpoint, she was getting into it, really into it. She had her lips on his neck and her hands in his hair, she was everywhere on his body I wished I was.
"If you're going to challenge the devil you have to learn to play like you're in hell." Fabian whispered in my ear, "When he plays dirty, you play dirtier."
"Let's play," I replied and Fabian's teeth nipped at my earlobe ever so slightly and I shut my eyes, I kept moving to the rhythm along with him but just then I felt someone pull me away from him.
"What the hell Kennedy!" Fabian scoffed, "She can do whatever she wants, she'snotyour goddamn property."
"I've been patient enough with you Fabian, don't make me have to show you just how protective I am of what's mine." River sneered getting daringly close to Fabian who looked almost terrified now. I don’t think I'd ever seen River that serious and that angry.
"Leave me alone." I challenged, trying to untangle myself from his grip but he didn’t let go, he simply lead me along to the upstairs balcony.
The cool Parisian midnight air swept over me and I looked up at the night sky which was aligned with an array of stars.
"Is that really what you want?" He asked, "If it is I'll let go, I'll letyougo."
My heart sank and I didn’t know what to say, all I knew was that I had to stand my ground to get what I wanted, what I deserved.
"I don't want to be your ‘what if’ anymore!" I argued, shoving him back, "I'm sick of all the mixed signals and emotions, tired of getting lost in translation with you, for once can we speak the same language?"
"Armani listen to me-" he began but I cut him off once more,
"I've been listening to you this entire time, I'm done listening I want you to just be honest with me!" I snapped,
"Armani I-" he began but I shoved him back again,
"I'm standing right in front of you, I'vebeenstanding right in front of you showing you how I feel and you still don't see me." I dismissed, "Why don't you see me River I-"
"I'm sorry," River said cutting me off and I stopped talking, he was…. apologising?
"No, you're not, you say that now but who's to say you'll mean it a few days from now?" I fought,
but he didn’t move so I shoved him even harder because I was angry and I was tired of getting hurt by him every time I opened up. He didn’t stop me, he just watched me and let me get all my anger out. "I just… want you to care, I just want to be yours."
"You are." River chastised and my heart sunk, "And I'm yours whether I like it or not. I've never been good with words which I believe you've come to know, but you've taken hold of me. You have enraptured every waking fibre of my being and I had no say in the matter. I don't know how they say it in English but Armani tu me possède."
Youpossessme.
"You don't mean that..." I wavered stumbling back,
"You said that you and I can't be anything."
"Forget what I said, listen to what I'm saying now," he took a deep breath before he said, "it's you."
“It’s me?” I muttered in disbelief,
“It has been you since the day we first crossed paths.” He assured me, his eyes frantic and desperate. “Call it chance, call it whatever you want but all I know is that you venture through the palace of my mind like you own it, and what’s far more wicked is that you really do.”
"Oh, River I-" I began but this time it was he who cut me off,
"Let me show you how sorry I am." He declared and I didn’t know exactly what he meant until he moved closer towards me and I took a step back and I leaned against the balcony. We're two floors up from the cold concrete. "Let me show you what I can't bring myself to say."
He moved closer and the only other place I could move to would be to fall off the edge, either way, I was going to face a near-death experience, either by the concrete or death by River Kennedy. And the latter sounded far more pleasurable. Before I knew it his lips were on mine, his kiss was much more forceful this time, it was as though he were claiming me with every stroke of his tongue on mine. He attempted to wrap his hand around my neck, I smiled at the contact and his eyes lit up when I did so,
"Show me how sorry you are Kennedy..." I wrapped my hand around his neck too because I wanted to see his reaction.
I wanted to see what River Kennedy would do when he didn't have all the control. I felt him swallow hard under my touch before he took the stronger grip and I let go before he kissed me hungrily. And at that I melted for him, I let out a soft moan into his mouth and that must've snapped whatever leash he had restraining him because he lifted me up into the air and I wrapped my legs around his torso before tilting my head back and letting him feast on my neck.
Under normal circumstances, I would've been terrified that I was hovering over a three-story building but his arms were the only thing keeping me from falling over the edge but In the most bizarre way, I trusted him. I trusted him as he nipped at my neck with his teeth and had his hot mouth claiming me as his own. He led me back to the room that we'd had to sneak into to get the balcony. It definitely wasn't Victoria's room, it appeared desolate, it was definitely a guest room. Regardless, any previous owners of this room didn't matter.
