Chapter 328: Best Reward and Punishment
"That wasn’t what I asked?! I asked whether you want to marry me or not. I never asked whether we should, or we shouldn’t get married. It’s not the same thing at all. Don’t evade my question like this!" I basically yelled at him.
I didn’t care what we should or shouldn’t do. I didn’t care what was good or bad. I didn’t want to hear his thoughts on what was right or wrong. I just wanted to know if he wanted to marry me or not. That was all.
"I’m not evading your question, Malissa. Don’t act like you’re the only one that has given this a long and hard thought. I’ve probably been thinking of this for much longer than you have. After all, you only seriously started thinking about it after our last conversation, right?" Hayden said knowingly.
How can he be so calm in a situation like this? I hated how I still admired how calm and composed he was. I probably liked him too much for my own good. They say that love is both a blessing and a curse. How accurate was that?
"Don’t make this out to be my fault. You’re still not answering my question even though I told you how I felt already. This is so unfair!" I started wailing like a kid and I hated how I sounded.
Hayden just laughed at me before he leaned in and leaned his forehead against mine. I didn’t close my eyes as I stared at him. He’s too close and I couldn’t get a good and proper look at his face like this. Hayden chuckled before he placed a soft kiss on my lips.
"Answer my question, Hayden Torex…" I demanded.
"I want to marry you, Malissa Maxford. Happy now?" Hayden said teasingly before he placed his hand on top of my head.
It made me feel like he was just messing around with me and treating me like I was his puppy, but I was so over the moon happy that I didn’t care about that at all. Hayden just told me that he wanted to marry me. Is this really happening?
"Really? You really want to marry me, right?" I asked as my eyes widened so wide that it started to hurt.
I wanted nothing more than to hear him say it again and again and again…
"I’m not repeating myself," Hayden muttered, killing off my dream in a blink of an eye.
He’s so stingy. Seriously…
But I love him so much. It was crazy. I was crazy.
"Umm…does this mean that we’re going to get married?" I asked, feeling suddenly very hopeful.
"Before that. Why do you want to marry me?" Hayden asked insistently.
Why can’t he just let it slide and just be happy with the fact that we both wanted to marry each other? Why can’t life be that simple?
The reason why I wanted to marry Hayden? Isn’t it supposed to be obvious at this point already.
"What about you? Why do you want to marry me?" I asked as I cocked my head to side a little while I watched his face curiously.
Does he feel the same way that I do?
"If you’re not going to answer me then…" Hayden said before his lips captured mine in a playful kiss.
I could feel him smiling while he kissed me teasingly. His hand held my face in place so that I wouldn’t be able to evade his kisses as he continued kissing me a little rougher and passionately than before. The tip of his tongue teased my lips opened before he thrusted his tongue deeply into my mouth. I found myself moaning lazily into his kiss before I felt his arms circling around my waist.
Just as I was starting to yearn for more of him, I felt the world tip sideways. Suddenly, I found myself laying on my stomach on his lap and his hand was lifting up my ass upwards as I laid face down on the bed. What is going on?
"What are you doing?" I asked as I started to panic.
"Punishing you for the many rules that you’ve broken. I don’t even know where to start…" Hayden said before he heaved a large and disappointed sigh.
He can’t be serious. I just told him that I wanted to marry him and now he was about to punish me for going out. How did one thing lead to another like this?
While my mind was struggling to understand what was going on, Hayden’s hands were busy pulling my skirt up to bare my ass to him. I could feel his fingers sliding along the curve of my buttocks after he had successfully pulled my dress up. His large hand caressed my ass before squeezing my buttocks playfully.
"I only went with Harvey because I wanted to see Amelia. I just thought that if I could see her, I might understand her better…and maybe I would understand myself better…" I said defensively.
It wasn’t like I sneaked out to have fun or to escape from Hayden. Even he had to admit that the outcome of my visit to see Amelia was progressive for us both.
"I’m not the least bit interested why you went out or why you happened to think that it was ok for you to go out behind my back," Hayden hissed at me as his hands began sliding off my panties.
"What are you doing?!" I asked as panic gripped me again.
"Taking off your panties," Hayden replied matter-of-factly as his hand successfully slid my panties off my legs.
I could feel the slightly cold air on the bare skin of my ass and my body started to squirm on his lap. Hayden held my waist to keep me in place while his other hand started stroking and teasing my ass in earnest. A moan escaped my lips as his hand expertly pleasured me.
"Hayden…please…" I pleaded in a small voice as I looked back to see his hand splayed across my ass cheeks.
--To be continued…