Chapter 167

I grab his hands and make him look at me. Everything is tangled. I hate him and I love him. He is noble and he is ruthless. He is brave and he is weak.

-Unknown.

|I R I S|

He knocked out nearly all the air from my lungs with his confession.

His eyes bored into mine with an intense look that had leaning backward in my seat to out some space between us.

"Lorenzo..." I called his name filling the silence with my voice. And he hummed in response without taking his eyes off mine as if he thinks I would disappear if he would even blink.

"I.." I swallowed, audibly, at our close proximity but he did not bid bed neither did he freed me of his heavy gaze which is very much fixed on me. "I think we should talk." I managed to get the damn words out of my mouth with him breathing right at my face.

"Then, talk." His words came out in a command and I could not help the way my heart picked up an increasing pace, like it would come out of my throat any