Chapter 40: Kissed Her
Alex took a second to reply. It was not the first time a girl had come this close. But it felt like the first time he did not feel nauseated from their thick line of makeup or smell. She smelled like mint. Alex shook his head and pushed the girl back on the wall. A decision he regretted, her body was too warm. The hand touching her shoulders felt scalded. What was happening? He looked at her in confusion. And then around them.
"Do you think that I need your help with my studies?" he asked, frowning. But the frown had nothing to do with their conversation.
"Do you not? You always get zero." Nora feigned ignorance. But even if he was smart, she was smarter. She had read all these books once, she did not need to attend the classes to know what the teacher was going to teach next.
"Ha!" he scoffed, "i do not care what you think. Fuck off and do not cross my path again." he pushed her and started walking away when her eyes narrowed.
"Fine! Go then. I will find a way to fight my family no matter what. They could not force me to return home this time." her voice was not loud enough. But he was still standing too close to hear her clearly. His feet paused and his upper body twisted toward her direction.
He saw rage in them and the hurt too.
"You want money to survive alone?" he asked, surprising her? She blinked and then nodded with a cold face. "And you would do anything to earn it?" He put extra pressure on the word "anything" and spoke it menacingly so that she knew where she was landing herself to.
But Nora still nodded without hesitation. The man puckered his lips for a second and then sighed.
"You are lucky Nora. I need some help tonight. Let’s see how useful you are." The treacherous smile on his face looked no less than a demon coming from hell. Devastatingly alluring but dangerous at the same time.