Helanie:
"Just so you know, I’m not kissing you or letting you kiss me," I said as I watched him aim at the targets.
"Don’t ruin the fun, Helanie," he said through gritted teeth, acting like he had to focus so hard to make a perfect shot. He was only doing this because I had told him how unfair it was since he was so good at it.
He launched the stone, and it hit the pyramid perfectly, crashing the stones and scattering them across the ground.
"Aha!" he laughed, turning to me and pouting his lips. He gently tapped his lips as he puckered them, making me roll my eyes.
"So, I will select—" As he started walking around me in a circle, I shook my head to dismiss any thoughts forming in his head.
"No! You are not kissing me," I refused, but he let out an evil chuckle.
"Okay, since you’re so scared—" Those words were deliberately chosen because he knew I came here determined to be good at aiming.
"I’m not scared," I stated confidently.
"Then come on," he insisted, stopping right in front of my face.
"This is like a win-win for you. I win, I kiss you. You win, you kiss me," I frowned. "How is this beneficial for me?"
I watched him narrow his eyes at me, then bend down to place his hands on his knees.
"Oh really? You don’t think you’ll be pleased in return? You’re acting like my kiss is nothing," he pouted like a child, making me sigh in exhaustion.
"Just a quick peck, I promise. Okay?" He stretched his neck back and muttered, "Since my kiss is so disgusting..." He was definitely upset that it came across like that. He wanted me to immediately start celebrating that he would kiss me.
"Why don’t you work harder to aim better so you can win? That way, you can choose to kiss the back of my hand only, so you don’t have to worry about your gracious lips touching my pathetic body anywhere else, mate!" Him calling me "mate" was his way of showing he was offended that his mate didn’t want him to touch me or be touched by him.
It’s not that he wasn’t an attractive man. I was just guilty of not being able to explain to him why what he felt wasn’t a mate bond.
I felt like I had led him on by accident.
"Fine. That will be okay," I agreed, at least he wasn’t wrong. I could try to win in that way.
"So, I won," he suddenly repeated his victory, informing me that I could worry about him kissing me later, because right now, he had won this round.
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