Angelina’s POV
He’s being his asshole self again today. Pissing the hell out of me since this morning.
And the annoying thing is, I keep falling for his trap every damn time.
He’s got me exactly where he wanted me from the beginning. Standing against him, breathing fire, and ready to tear him a new one. And the most annoying thing above all else, the twisted bastard was enjoying the whole thing. Right down to getting his ass kicked. Which is even beyond my capacity to begin understanding how his complicated mind works.
“April, do you mind practicing with David while I deal with your annoying brother?” I asked her firmly.
She gave me a side smile and said excitedly “Not at all, go ahead”
“It won’t take long” I told her as I looked straight at him confidently.
He raised one eyebrow and said sarcastically “Wanna bet on it?”
“I don’t place bets, Lucas. Not when I’m sure I’ll win anyway” I said cockily as I stood a few feet facing him and taking my stance.
“Keep talking like that, Angel. You know it turns me on to see you go all avenging angel on me” he said playfully.
“Yeah? How about I turn you off for a change?” I said fiercely before I lunged for him.
He was expecting my hit, he dodged my fist at the last second and tried to get a hold of me, but I didn’t let him.
We circled each other for a bit before I lunged again, feigning a right then going left at the last second and catching him off guard with a hard punch to the stomach.
He coughed but didn’t go down on his knees like I was expecting, even though I put a lot of force behind that hit.
I didn’t allow him anytime to recover as I kicked him at the back of his knee, forcing him down, and delivering another kick to his side this time.
He grunted painfully and laid on his back, clutching his side and trying to breathe through the pain.
“Damn Angel! I need my Damn kidney!” he said through gritted teeth.
I stood over his face with a smug smile on my face “You’ll live through, don’t worry. I was expecting a little more challenge than that, Lucas. That was way too easy”
He looked at me playfully before he grabbed my feet from under me with both hands and dropped me flat on my ass, I didn’t even have time to brace myself for the fall.
I groaned in anger more than pain at his cheap ass trick while I heard him laughing.
Oh you wanna play it like that Lucas Snow? It is so fucking on!
I stayed on the ground as he traded places with me and stood above me with a smug face “What was that you were saying? Too easy?”
“That move you just pulled could have broken my back, Lucas!” I snapped at him angrily.
“I know what I was doing little Angel, don’t you worry” he said gently as he extended his hand for me to take.
I grab his hand with both arms and instead of letting him pull me up, I used all my strength to bring him down and flip him over.
He hit the mat hard on his back with a loud grunt and yelped as I pinned the arm I was still holding on to in a painful grip behind his head.
“I wasn’t worried, not at all” I said firmly.
He groaned and said through gritted teeth “Well, neither am I, you know why?”
“Do tell”
He turned over in a heart beat and used his free hand to grab my upper chest and pin me down forcing me to release my hold on his other one, then he straddled over me and pinned my wrists above my head as he leaned over me and whispered seductively “Because I’ve got you right where I wanted you in the first place, pinned down under me, all hot and bothered like this”
“Who said anything about me being hot and bothered by this? You’re in my game Lucas!” I whispered back as I head butted him in the lip and rolled us over so I was straddling him instead and holding his wrists down while pinning my legs over his. Weirdly, I didn’t meet any sort of resistance from him, almost like he was enjoying being pinned down.
I looked at his face and instead of seeing pain on it from the split lip I just gave him, I saw something else entirely. I saw raw desire, just like last night.
I shook my head at him while he just kept grinning at me like a smug idiot “You’re freaking crazy” I said dryly as I started to shift off him.
I stood up and didn’t bother to offer him my hand, as I walked away. The fight was over and I won, we both knew that.
“You adore that side of me Angel, admit it” he said behind me as he got up from the ground.
I whirled around to face him as I said intensely “Adore is such a strong word for someone I barely met just three days ago! You’re giving yourself way too much credit Lucas”
He walked over till he was standing by my side, facing me as he whispered cynically near my ear “So when you asked me for a kiss last night, that was you not giving me too much…credit?”
Yeah, I brought that upon myself. I should’ve never asked him for that stupid kiss. He already made me regret that more than once since I woke up this morning, and something told me it won’t stop here, not unless I put an end to it.
“You can call that…. A momentary lapse of judgement on my part. But don’t you worry, because that will never happen again. Not that it really meant anything to you. You’re just….having fun, you know passing the time in this boring town, trying to get some sort of new high. But I have news for you, Lucas. I don’t swing that way. I’m not the type you screw once just to take the edge off” I whispered back sharply.
He gave me a hard look and said so sincerely “I never said you were, Angel”
His words take me aback. He wasn’t lying or toying with my emotions either, because I could tell how much sincerity he put behind those words.
“Why the hell did you kiss me then?” I asked in confusion in a low voice, acutely aware that April and David weren’t practicing like I told them to. In fact I don’t think they practiced at all this whole time.
“All is fair in love and war” he said softly with a smirk.
His answer pisses me off profusely and confuses the hell out of me. What in the world does that mean?
“This is not a fucking war, Lucas!” I whisper yell at him.
“Well, I guess it’s love then” he said in amusement.
I stand there, completely stricken with that comeback, unable to respond at all as I stare into his brown eyes.
What the hell is he saying to me right now?
Because there is no way he’s saying what I think he’s saying….right?
That would be…… crazy.
And crazy was his middle fucking name, I’m starting to gather.