CHAPTER 2 Take Me There
"Who are you? A paparazzi?" Luna flinched back from the resentment in his voice. His ice-cold eyes glimmered with a dangerous light and it chilled her more than the freezing temperature.
She couldn't help but think that this man was the perfect example of the inhumanly beautiful demon king she often read about in fictional books.
After swallowing her saliva, Luna forced herself to respond to him.
"No, I'm not.'' She shook her head but the man's eyes narrowed and then he moved his feet, walking close to her.
Every step he took felt like a ticking time bomb to her but surprisingly, she was able to hold her ground despite her knees shaking a little. She was surprised.
When the man stopped just less than a meter before her, she couldn't help but bite her bottom lips. The man was scrutinizing her, looking at her like she was some prey. She knew with one look into those eyes that 'dangerous' was an understatement to describe him.
"Little lamb… did you hear everything?" he asked, his gaze seeming deadlier than the sharpest dagger. He was glaring at her like he wanted to kill her.
She has never seen eyes as beautiful as his but also as deadly cold as his. He had such killer eyes that could pierce through anyone's soul.
"I am sorry, I...didn't mean to…"Luna managed to answer when the man suddenly raised his hand towards her neck. They flinched in fear as she shut her eyes, thinking that the man was going to strangle her.
But that didn't happen. Slowly, Luna opened her eyes.
He did not say a word. He was solely focused on her bright yellow knitted scarf. For some reason, the daggers and the ancient glaciers in his eyes seemed to have been washed away and suddenly replaced with an odd, calm blankness.
She looked down and saw his fingers fiddling with the edge of her knitted scarf, Luna simply froze again, her heartbeat beating so erratically as if a hammer was inside her chest.
"Yellow…'' he murmured to himself as if he dropped his hand and then the look in his eyes changed again. He didn't look harsh and cold anymore as he did moments ago.
"Go home," he said and just like that, he turned to leave.
Luna exhaled as she watched him move away from her. She would have been running away now that the demon finally let her go unscathed but she just stood there, unmoving, her gaze watching his retreating perfect and graceful fingers.
Closing her fists tightly so that her knuckles turned White, she suddenly called out.
"Wait, mister, please wait!"
The chauffeur had already opened the door for him to enter. Her voice echoed in the cold garage and he looked over at her.
"What?" he replied without turning to look at her.
Fearlessly, Luna began to walk towards him. She was suddenly high on adrenaline and she felt brave. Her knees had stopped trembling and the fear in her eyes was replaced with something else... resolve.
"Was everything you said true? That you do not do love?" she asked as she stood less than a meter behind him. "Are you sure you won't fall for anyone?"
The man finally turned to look at her. His dark glazed eyes assessed her with disbelief and then, interest.
"From what I understand, you're willing to make someone your girlfriend as long as she won't demand your love, right?'' she asked again.
Silence reigned between them for a moment. The man stared at her through his narrowed eyes. He seemed astonished as if he was looking at a certain unbelievable creature.
"Why are you asking?'' his lips now curved up in a wicked, amused smile but his tone was still obviously disbelieving.
"I am just curious. Is it true?" she answered. She was unbelievably calm.
"So what if it was, and what if it was not?"
Luna pressed her lips right. "If it's true, how can you be sure? Do you believe that you will never fall for anyone? Ever?"
What she got as a response was a low chuckle. The man looked like a devil when he laughed. His laughter didn't reach his eyes, but somehow he seemed a bit amused.
She wasn't sure. His expressions were just too tricky for her to figure out.
"Yellow, tell me. What exactly are you trying to say?" he fiddled with the edge of her scarf again, his thin lips still curved up to a dangerous and mischievous smile.
"I…I'm just saying that I don't think you will be an exception. Maybe you just haven't met that special someone who has an ax to force your heart open."
"Little yellow, are you saying you want to try me?"
Looking at his eyes, Luna fell silent for a moment before she nodded her answer. Her eyes were decisive.
He laughed.
Creasing her brows, Luna tried to show him how serious she was but when she said she was serious, her intensity seemed to have only made the man more amused.
After he stopped laughing, the man spoke.
"Are you perhaps thinking that you could eventually make me fall in love? Too bad, Yellow…countless women already tried that, and beside… I don't think you are capable of that." his eyes traveled from her head down to her toes.
"And you heard me correctly, I don't do love. Never. So don't waste your brain cells thinking about it. ''his voice was smoldering despite the smile on his face.
But Luna was unfazed. How about you try me? I promise, I will not demand you to love me back." she promised, even raising her hand like a girl scout, causing the man to laugh again.
"Yellow, you are just a brave little girl." his smile faded and a hard edge crept into his voice.
"Please stop calling me yellow! My name is Luna. And I am not a little girl! I am about to turn twenty-two."
The man's expression abruptly shifted once again and he chuckled. His laugh seemed to have some sort of magic as it lingered in her ears. His laughter was unexpectedly so pleasing.
"Indeed, you are one brave little girl, yellow. Do you know who I am?''
"No."
"And yet, you're still here blindly offering yourself?"
She nodded and the man now smirked evilly. He stared at her from head to toe for the second time as he licked his sexy lips and then he stepped forward. His long, graceful fingers lifted her chin.
"Little lamb, let me tell you this. You are standing before the gate of hell right now. Doing this means ruining your life. Are you ready to step down to hell with me?" his eyes blazed. A warning was burning within it and Luna knew he was more than serious and that the danger was real.
His intensity made her shudder slightly but his warning wasn't enough to make her give in that she had never been this brave... or crazy in her life. She was already imagining a lot of things in her head.
The possible outcome of this madness she was trying to throw herself into, of course, terrified her but…every time she thought about her future, was there anything scarier to her at this point? Isn't she looking for something like this? For a man like this?
As the salience dragged on, the man's lips curved up into a triumphant, mocking smile and his hand leaned on her head. He ruffled her hair and leaned in on her.