Chapter 34 My Girlfriend
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He's not gonna lie. He really wants Vale to be his girlfriend.
She can't be mad at him for lying either since they were both lying to his mom.
He understands why she's trying to cover up how they met. The fewer people knew who she is, the better she lives. The fact that they met under bad circumstances is not how he wants his mom to know either.
If he were to say, 'Hey, mom. We met when I saw her and I blackmailed her into becoming my hidden killer.', Keith was sure that his mom and dad will never permit him to be with her.
Sooner or later, they would found out of the truth. He hoped his parents would forgive her.
Jenny and Dylan seemed to get along.
Thank god his mom didn't match her with him.
He doesn't want another problem to come between Vale and him. He just got her back. There's no way he would agree with the idea of being away from her again.
He also noticed that Jake went to the kitchen after Mitchell.
His hawk eyes darted from his mom, Vale and the kitchen door.
How long does it take to get a few glasses of water?
His legs bounced up and down a little to fight the itch to barge on the kitchen door.
A couple of years later, finally, note the sarcasm, Jake came back to the living room with Mitchell strutting a few steps behind looking all flustered.
What deed they've done in the kitchen?
The clock hit 10 p.m. Meanings, time to go home.
His mom, dad and Mitchell stand at the door watching them leave.
However, his protective brother's eyes caught the warning glare Jake sent to Mitchell.
If Jake did something to his sister, best friend or not, he would kill him.
Dylan offers Jenny a ride back home in which, she refuses and he insists games, started.
When Keith saw that he's safe from his mom and dad watching eyes, he dragged Valentina to his car.
"Come here!" he took her wrist on his hand and dragged her to his car.
It's a miracle that she wears heels and heels can't get stuck in the pavement.
He just hoped her heels are not damaged. The thought of what she will do to avenge her heels made his stomach do a somersault.
"Keith! What the hell? Let me go!"
"Shh! Keep your voice low! Just follow me!" he opened the car and pushed her to the passenger seat.
"I don't want to go with you!" she crossed her arms and put her weight on her legs outside the car.
Keith clenched his jaw in frustration.
He leaned forward making Vale's arms fall on her side to support her weight when she leans back away from him.
Keith slammed his lips on her tempting lips, and when her hands fly to his neck, he lifted her legs and put it on the car, making the kiss stopped.
"What the hell?! Keith-" her eyes narrowed as her cheeks flushed red.
"Do you still remember my mom's wish?" he leaned in, so their face is barely an inch away from each other.
Her eyebrows knitted in confusion for a second before realization dawned on her as her face went pale.
"Do you want me to do that? Keep defying me, and I'll make her wish come true!"
She huffed and look in front of the car with dismay on her face. Keith closed her door.
She's mad as hell. But, he needs to explain things to her.
He got into the driver's seat and drove out of his family's house. Vale was trying to make her face look angry, which only made him burst out laughing.
After a few minutes of shouts, glare and obviously a laugh from him, he pulled out his phone to call Caleb.
"Hey," Caleb answered.
"Caleb, I need to go somewhere with my girlfriend for a little bit," he informed him just for caution.
Vale's eyes burned a hole on the side of his face when she heard what he said to Caleb.
"Okay, don't do anything funny with her and come back home before 12 a.m. and don't forget-" Keith cut off the call before Caleb can rant about everything a father would rant to his daughter's boyfriend.
For man sakes, he's only a month younger than him!
"Where are you taking me?" she asked with a glare.
"Surprise..." he shrugged his shoulder in response.
She mumbles something like, ‘I hate surprises', as he smiles.
He parked his car on the roadside of the park and stepped out of the vehicle. he walks towards Vale who eagerly got out, and he intertwined their fingers together.
"Let go!" she tried to snatch her hands away from him.
"Shh! You'll make them run away!" he shush her and laugh evilly inside his heart when she shut up.
There's no one here; honestly, it was just a trick to make her shut her pretty lips.
"Who?" she looks around in confusion.
"Shh!"
They walked towards a bench under the tree and sat down on it. The park is quiet but with a serene feeling as the lamp road illuminated the park.
Her eyes were scanning through the darkness, trying to detect who he was talking about. Meanwhile, Keith was dying, trying to contain his laugh that was rising to his throat.
"So, aren't you gonna ask me anything?" he coughed, breaking the silence as he caresses her hand in his hand.
So soft and small.
"I-uh-" she hesitated as she looked on the grass and bit her lip.
"What was that...?" he put his hands on her face to turn her face to him.
Her eyes locked with his, trying to read what is inside his head.
After a long time, she gave up and turned away from him with a grunt.
"Just ask."
"Did you-" her head snapped at me for a second when she speaks and turn her head away when she stopped.
"Never mind. Let's go back," she said as she tried to pull her hands away. Keywords, tried.
Keith closed his eyes in frustration.
"No! As long as we didn't fix this, we're not going anywhere!" he said, gritting his teeth.
"Fine! Why did you say I am your girlfriend when you never ask me to be one?"
"I can do anything as I please, remember?"
She stiffened.
After that, an argument happened between them and made them unaware of the Silencer pointing at them in the dark.
***
Vale was still shocked that they were attacked. Her shoulder's skin itch and sting from a fragment of the bullet.
If she didn't move in time...Vale shakes her head and gulped the lump in her throat.
She was struggling to get away from Keith's hold when a silver bullet passes through.
They reach Keith's mansion in records time, and the car was silent throughout the ride.
Her mind throbbed with one question lingering on her mind.
'Does the attacker belong to the Venomous Gang?'
She tried to make a connection on how they were related to this event.
She would have to ask someone from the gang about this ‘take over leadership' thing. For all she knows, that gang could have been lying to her.
She was hurt by Keith's words during their argument, though.
How could he use her to avoid being matched with someone else?
He didn't even ask her to be his girlfriend!
Vale feels like she's gonna explode from the amount of frustration building inside of her. As much as she wants to scream that Keith is lying, he's actually telling the truth.
She's just too stubborn to accept the fact thrown into her face.
If he actually says that he blackmailed her, his parents will never approve of them.
‘If I didn't bring you, mom would of match me with another woman, and I don't want that. Do you want me to be with someone else?'
Her blood boils at the thought of him with another woman.
Her shoulder slumped a bit when she recalled that they are not together.
‘He can be with another woman for all you care. Idiot! He doesn't even love you. Why would you be possessive over him?'
It's all because of the attractions!
What's so special about him that she can't help but reach out to the fire when she knows it's gonna burn her?
Vale closed her eyes, trying to block all the thoughts dancing in her mind.
Taunting her.
Tempting her.
They got out of the car.
The silence of the mansion means the guys are already asleep.
She wanted to head straight to her room. But, when they're inside, Keith grabbed her wrist and dragged her to the kitchen.
"Why are you always dragging me around?" she whisper-yelled at him.
"Because you're stubborn about everything." he continued to walk into the kitchen.
"I am not stubborn!"
"Yes, you are."
"No!"
"Yes!"
"No!"
"No!"
"Yes!"
He gives her the looks as if saying, ‘I told you so,'.
Vale huffed.
He grabbed a first aid kit from one of the cabinets as she glared at him. It was just a small freaking scratch for sweet sake! Urgh!
"It's just a small scratch," she stated rather coldly.
‘Don't expect me to say thank you, you jerk!' she mentally scream.
Vale doesn't even feel the pain because she had been in a situation worse than this.
She shakes her head at the thought of the incident.
This is what she wanted to avoid ever since he started showing his feelings.
The pain is unbearable.
She wasn't his, he hasn't left her and yet she already felt the hurt of a heartbroken woman.
Vale doesn't think she can handle one more heartbreak.
"I know that. Still, you can get an infection." Keith stated calmly.
‘Good grief, you're a gang leader.' she rolled her eyes.
Why is he so calm?
They were attacked.
Wasn't he supposed to warn the guys?
But, she knows not to question him, so she kept her mouth shut. Plus, he wants her to trust him.
He started treating her wounds with concentration.
Vale's eyes drink the sight of his face with thirst, trying to bury his image as best as she can in her mind.
She shivered when his lips landed near her scratched skin.
Vale guessed that he had finished, considering both of his hands are now trapping her against the counter. Her breath hitched when his kiss trailed up her shoulder, neck and lastly her ear.
"It's not good to stare without permission." he bit her earlobe and she bit her lip to hide her moan.
"I...I wasn't...staring..." she moaned out when he found the soft spot behind her ear.
"Uh...huh..." his lips trailed down and stopped at the junction of her neck before biting down on it.
Vale whimper at the pain and pleasure when he licked and sucked on her neck.
"I'm so sorry, princess. I do plan on using you," he stated before leaning back to look into her eyes.
"You-!" he held his index finger on her mouth.
"I wanted to use you every time I got the opportunity. So, I will have you at my beck and call. Until I get so addicted to you, no other woman can come between us, no other woman can sit in my heart with you residing in it. Until I can't think about any other women but you. My mind will be so full about you and without you-" he stopped.
Vale held her emotion inside her and stared blankly at him. But, of course. The sly man knows what to do. He leaned in kissing her forehead before kissing both of her eyes, forcing her to close them. He kissed both her cheeks, her nose and lastly her lips.
'Damn! How can he control my body so easily?'
Vale gave in and a surge of calmness surge through her body as she reached for his hair and tugged at it making him groan.
After a few minutes, they pulled away breathless.
"-Without you, I'm nothing, and it was the worst feeling ever." he gives me a dazzling smile before bandaging her scratched skin.
Which he forgot to do, of course.
Her heart was still running a marathon from his words just now, and she actually doesn't mind being used anymore. If that's how he thinks.
She just hoped that he wouldn't hear the pounding of her heart.
Once he finished with the bandage, he put everything back into the first aid kit and put it back on the cabinet.
Vale was halfway through her room when she noticed him following her.
She turned around and bit the inside of her cheeks to hold her laugh. He gives her the looks that only she could understand. His cheeks had turned red which is adorable.
"In one condition."
"Okay?"
"I'm gonna go back to my mansion-" he cut her off.
"Oh, hell no. After what happens today, you still want to go out? No, and that's final."
Vale sighed dramatically and turns back, walking forward to her room, "Well then," she said, shrugging her shoulder.
"Princesssss..." he actually whined.
Vale rolled her eyes, and she opened her door as he attached his body to the wall next to her door like a lizard but with puppy eyes.
Vale licked her lips, and his gaze landed on it.
"Wanna come in?" she stepped into the room.
He smiles in triumph before walking past her.
Vale's phone beeped just after she closed the door.
She opened it and looks at the unknown number on her screen.
‘Lucky you move, Emi. It should have been fun watching your face when lover boy takes the bullet in his head. But, you ruined it. Just like you ruined everything!'
Hello shit! How did this freak know her number?
She imagines the bullet plant its root on Keith's head if she didn't move.
'If I didn't move... if I.. god!'
'They're trying to take Keith down!'
The facts were enough to tremble her little heart.
