Chapter 22 I want you to be mine!

"ARE you ready?" Chris asked Nica when he saw her sitting on the bed although she is already dressed up. They will go to meet with the dressmaker.

"Do we really need that bitch to tag along?" She frowned, she was referring to Janice.

"She's your sister and she wants to come with us."

"But you know that I hate her!"

Chris smiled as he looks at her puckered lips, it was moving and he knows that she is cursing her half-sister in her mind. He can decline Janice's request to come with them. But he figured he needed her presence to make Nica closer to him. It may be something selfish and detestable, but he likes it when Nica acts sweet toward him.

"What are you laughing at?" Nica asked when she noticed the unusual smile on his lips.

"Do you know that you have a kissable lip?" He subconsciously uttered what was on his mind while staring at her lips.

Nica covered her own mouth using her palm. She knows her cheeks are flushed right now because she recalled the kiss she gave him earlier. She rolled her eyeballs at him so the embarrassment she feels will not be obvious.

"You just want me to kiss you again, that's why you want Janice to come with us, isn't that right?" She queried.

Chris stared at the young lady. "I can kiss you anytime I want."

Nica stood up and strike a pose. "And who told you that I am allowing you to kiss me?"

Chris grinned and stepped closer to the young lady.

"He-Hey!" She stuttered as she rebuked him. "Why are you getting close?" She became nervous, she cannot step back because the bed is behind her.

"To show you the proof."

Nica swallowed her own saliva when she looked at his lips, his dimple appeared when he smiled. She knows that he is only teasing her, but she still feels nervous.

His intention to just tease the young lady was replaced by a desire to do what he was planning when he saw the expression on her face. He felt thirsty when he saw Nica bit her lip.

Nica did not know how it suddenly happened that she is in his arms and his lips are on hers. She gasped when he deepened the kiss and his tongue did not waste the chance. She was disgusted by Philip's kiss, but now it was the opposite. She felt drunk with the smell of his breath. Every movement of his lips and tongue was aggressive yet gentle.

Only if he was not out of breath, he would not let go of her lips. "I'm addicted to your lips." He said in a husky voice.

Nica does not know what to react to that kiss. She stayed still on the ground, not knowing that her arms were wrapped around his nape. She can feel his hands on her hips. He touched her forehead with his forehead, she cannot help but stare at his parted-open lips. He really seems thirsty, she can hear his breath and see the movement of his adam's apple.

"Can we make it real and give it a try?"

"Huh?" Nica did not get what he just said.

"I want you to be mine!"

Nica held her breath and her heart started pounding when he heard his hoarse and baritone voice. Something like electricity passed through every of her fiber and she felt hot.

Chris moaned when the young lady reciprocated his hot kisses. He pulled her in her waist to get their bodies closer. He heard her gasp, but there were no complaints about his action. He was not contented in kissing her lips. His kisses crept down to her neck and he sniffed the unique fragrance from there.

"Chris..."

Her husky voice as she called his name was like music in his ear.

Nica pushed his head away from her neck with a slight force when someone knocked on the door again.

"Why?" He looked at her with languid eyes.

"Someone's knocking." She said and used her force to distance herself from Chris.

Chris sighed with annoyance and was forced to let go of her. "It's not funny!" He said when she laughed. The expression on his face was similar to a person who loses at gambling because he has not gotten enough yet.

"Chris, we're gonna be late!" Janice exclaimed when he opened the door.

"You said you're just going to call Nica so we can leave already, but almost twenty minutes have passed!" She added when he did not reply.

"Why the hell are you hurrying?"

Janice gritted her teeth when her half-sister spoke from inside the room. She pushed Chris' body that was blocking the doorway. She wants to take her anger out when she saw her slightly messy hair. Janice's eyes followed Nica's hand that touched her own neck, it was reddened. She is not oblivious to where it came from and what caused it.

Nica smirked and lifted up the strap of the blouse she is wearing. She intended to drop it on her shoulder earlier.

"Bitch!" She hissed and cussed in her mind while glaring at Nica. Her attention came back to Chris when he spoke.

"If you're already vexed, you can just refuse to tag along," Chrismith stated with irritation and he is not in the mood to behave like a gentleman.

Janice looked at Chris with disbelief. The feeling of hurt can be seen in her eyes. She turned her back without a word as a sign of resentment.

Chris sighed while he watched his friend walk away. He did not want to hurt a girl's feelings, but he guessed he did.

Nica immediately erased the smile on her lips when the young man looked at her. The guilt because he hurt her sister's feelings is registered on his face. She knows that he never wanted to offend anyone, but he unintentionally did because of her, so she feels bad.

"Let's go?"

With her mouth shut, Nica smiled and nodded her head. She acted as if nothing intimate happened between the two of them. They were just near the main door when his mother appeared.

"Chrismith!" it was obvious that she is angry because of her voice.

"Go to the car first," Chris ordered Nica in a low voice.

Nica nodded her head and was about to step out when she heard what his mother said.

"When did you become a lout?"

"What's wrong, Mom?"

"You're asking that? I did not raise you to hurt a girl's feelings!"

Nica canceled her attempt to step out and looked at the lady.

"Mom, I'm getting married and my priority is the lady I will marry." Chris sounded like he is out of patience.

"What's wrong if Janice will go with you two? She's doing a good deed, she just wants to help you!" Luisa shifted her gaze to Nica. "Especially, you, because you're her sister."

"Mom, it's not what you think," Chris said. "Nica's not at fault here."

"You weren't like that to Janice if that girl didn't order you to be rude and hurt her sister. She's your friend, Chrismith, and she doesn't deserve that kind of treatment from you!"

"She's my friend, but Nica is my girl!" There was anger in Chris' voice because his mother did not mind what Nica might feel when she accused her.

Luisa's jaw dropped and she could not believe the angry expression of her son.

"Chris." Nica called his name in a low voice and held his arm to calm him down. She looked at his mother with sadness, but she does not want to say anything. Like her father, his mother is also easily manipulated by her sister's great acting.

"I'm sorry, Ma!" Chris apologized after he calmed down. He raised his voice at his mother for the first time, he got quite angry and it was because of a lady. "Nica is my fiancé and she did not tell me to stay away from Janice like what she reported to you."

Luisa felt guilty when she saw Nica's teary eyes. "It was just me who thought that maybe she ordered you." She looked away from Nica. "Fix your friendship with Janice before you leave."

"I'm sorry." Nica apologized to Chris when his mother was no longer in front of them.

"No, it was not your fault that there was a misunderstanding between Mom and I." He lifted up her bowed head and he felt very sad because of the sadness he sees in her eyes. It was the same eyes he saw when he first saw her in his resto.

"Everything will be all right, okay?" He caressed her cheek. He smiled when she nodded her head and let him lead her to the sofa. He was about to leave her there temporarily to follow his mother.

"Chris..."

He looked at the young lady with a smile when she called him.

"Don't side with me anymore, please!"

Chrismith's aura slowly became dark. "I can't promise that!"

Nica felt the anger in Chris' voice and she did not know why he reacted like that to her request. She had no choice but to quietly wait in the living room. She saw the young man entered the room with his parents. After a few minutes, he came out and head to the room of her half-sister.

"It's just you, why are you still here?" Janice asked when she saw Chrismith in front of the door when she opened it.

"Can we talk?" He has a serious face.

"Come in!" Janice answered gladly to the young man and opened the door widely.

"No need, I won't stay long because Nica is waiting."

Janice turned her back on him so he would not see the anger that registered on her face. "Then just leave if that's the case." She replied with sadness.

"I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings earlier."

She did not respond to his apology and did not make a single move.

"Look, Janice." He struggles to find a way to explain things without hurting his friend. "I didn't mean it when I said those words.

"I didn't mean it when I said those words. I also thought that you are exhausted from your trip so it's better if you rest for today."

She turned to look at the young man with resentment. "I just wanted to take part in the preparation of your wedding, not just because you are my friend, but because it's my sister that you're going to marry."

Chris' conscience was poked again by what he heard. He just noticed that Janice's eyes were quite red, a sign that she came from crying.

"Janice is a good person, she quickly followed you two here, even though there were many works left to do in the company, just to help her sister," Chris remembered his mother's explanation earlier.

Nica did not know what happened and the young man has her sister with him when he goes downstairs. Her smile was so wide and it looks like she will be coming with them after all.