Hostages (Book 2)

Chapter 15

"If anyone need me or Zachary we'll be upstairs."

When they walked up the stairs and closed the door to Arias room he went to her dresser and looked around.

 "Look at what you did when you couldn't do a simple task." Aria said as she ran a hand through her hair.

"They interrogated you like you ran to Vegas and got married. Which is on the table by the way." He walked over to her nightstand and gazed down at the quote,smiling.

"Why would you come? What if they try to kill you again?"

"It won't happen Ari,trust me. I'm here to stay,"he pressed his lips hard against hers "They're not separating us."

Aria fell on the foot of her bed when Zachary went to her closet. Aria watched him with her eyes as he looked in the very back where Aria kept old photos of her parents and even of her past boyfriends and she wasn't surprised that he knew the precise locations,he opened the shoe box and scanned through the photos and she saw his shirt raise showing his tan abs and the bandage Penelope said the tattoo was. Aria thought about what the tat could be and why he got it when she talked without overthinking.

 "Were you and Penelope ever together?"

From the side of his face she saw him smirk. "Jealous?"

She sighed. "No. I just want to know if that's how she became your assistant."

"I can't tell you how she did but I can say no. I never dated her,you're my first girlfriend."

"What? That can't be possible,your three years older than me."

"I found out about you while I was in the institution and I've been obsessed with you ever since,there was never any room in my mind for someone else. And I can tell you that I was furious when I saw you had other relationships." Zachary scoffed and walked to sit beside her.

"I wanted to kill every last one of them."

"Well why didn't you?"

He looked at her for a while before saying, "I didn't want to give you another to hate me."

Aria made a small smile. "Are you saying that the Zachary Pierce has a soft spot?"

"Yeah and that's a down side. With people like me and the job that I have,I can't have a soft spot. Sick twisted people will use you against me--why is your neck red?"

Aria touched her neck before she bit her lip and said,"The chemical of the necklace isn't adapting to my skin well."

"The chemical? It's gold."

"Not all jewelry is good with certain peoples skin."

Zach switched gazes between both her eyes. "It still works."

"What does?"

"I can still tell when your lying to me. And you are, but you don't have to tell me the actual reason. And why ask about Penelope? You said you wanted to know if she became my assistant through being my girlfriend but what made the 'girlfriend' idea come to your head?"

"She told me you got a tattoo and I had an idea on how she saw it."

His brows frowned. "I wouldn't do that. Not to you. Knowing what you went through the last few years,I don't want to put you threw anymore."

"That's what all men say in the beginning of every relationships. Then towards the end,they're suing."

"I'm a guns dealer who kills for a living. Your a victim of my kidnapping and the heart of my possession disorder. Your also a former person who experienced deep depression. I say our relationship is anything but normal."