Kris opened the door to Lena"s room and placed her on the bed. They were both not wearing any shoes beforehand. He grabbed the blanket and cuddle in with Lena.
"Any more questions?" He asked. Kris hugged Lena from behind.
"Are you, bi-s.e.xual?"
"No. I am Lens.e.xual. I am only attracted you to, regardless of your gender."
"Why did you marry Hugh?"
"What is marriage?" Kris whispered, not to ask Lena but to question himself. "Back then, I only knew that as a strong bond between people."
"And now?"
"A fancy legal term to recognize the relations.h.i.+p between two people."
Lena laughed but she held to Kris" hands that were hugging her. "I want to get married though, sometime in the future."
"Okay."
"We had our first argument, right? So can you tell me about how you thought of this?"
Kris did not really want to tell Lena about the things he went through. It is something imbedded in him, a part of him, that he can"t just simply throw away just because he was in love. His past is still a major part of who he is today.
"The art of seduction." He answered
Lena was confused. She turned her body around so she was looking at Kris. "Like spies?"
"When you target your enemy, get information, or kill them, you have to know how to use every method necessary."
"How did you learn if you can"t... um.. touch a woman?"
"They way you look at them, or just how you speak to them. Find their vulnerabilities and use them against them. Know what pleases a person and what anger thems." Kris hugged Lena"s head against his chest again.
He does not like it when she stared at him when he talked about the bad part of himself. He knew that he has the eyes that can kill, Tye mentioned it many times when Kris talked with him.
"But not you though, my voice, my eyes, and my feelings have been the real me for you." His voice stuttered. "So please don"t think that just because I have the skills, it means that they are lies for you."
One thing Kris feared, was Lena not trusting him. He had lied a lot throughout his life to get things to be done his way, and he knew that the darkness inside of him would not hesitate to lie again. But with her, at least he can be honest and vulnerable to her.
When she openly said that she trusted him way back then, his mind was somewhat happy and somewhat ready to take advantage of her. He knew that he was a bad man, and a man doesn"t change overnight.
"You know what I feared?" Lena spoke. "That you only are attracted to me because I am the only woman that you can touch. You know... like if it"s the end of the world and every single woman died, and I am the only one left, you only love me because of that."
"No. I am Lens.e.xual. I could have been attracted to many other women, but only to you, I feel genuine and loved. The desire to conquer you completely and make you only mine." His voice turned dark in the last sentence.
Lena could feel a cold shudder down her spine. "Are you a jealous man?"
"Who is there to be jealous of if there I kill all the men?"
Lena opened a larger distance between them so they can talk more. "You can"t do that. I just want to know if your someone who does not let me have male friends or not."
"No male friends."
"Not even Gary?"
Kris glared at Lena, with his killing intent gaze. "I don"t like it when you say another man"s name in bed."
Lena was going to refute that they are not in "bed" but they were on a bed.
Kris closed his eyes for a while and opened them again. He knew he was getting angry. "Sorry..." He placed a hand on Lena"s cheek. "Just don"t torture me too much."
Lena smiled. "I am sorry too... because I am a very jealous woman. More internally than physical though. So if you are going out to have dinner with a female woman, that is not your mom or Stella, you need to tell me. If a woman touches you, you need to tell me. If someone dares to flirt with you, male or female, you need to tell me. You only have 24 hours to tell me your daily report of woman around you."
"Okay." Kris gulped. Women jealousy are way more dangerous that his killing intent. "And you know that I am Lens.e.xual right? It"ll be a real word in the dictionary soon."
"Yes, I know." Lena giggled and cuddle back close with Kris. They stayed silent for a while before Lena got up and kick Kris out. "You go to sleep in your room."
"Why?"
"Becuase we might get married tomorrow if you stay here."
"I don"t mind that."
"I do, now shoo!"
Kris chuckled at left to go back to his room.
Lena plopped down back to her bed and squealed onto the pillow. She felt like a big weight on her chest have been lifted off. She was curious about everything Kris" went through but everything will take time. She happily dozed off to dreamland.
She woke up the next day with a dozen notifications from her parents. They wanted her home since she killed off another man in her life, that being Ming Zhao, and they have not seen her for a while.
Lena realized she went to sleep in uncomfortable clothes. She went to the bathroom to get ready. The small closet in the room has several different clothes and Lena picked one for her.
The sun was just rising and the boat was already parked on the sh.o.r.e since last night after they finished their dinner. She went out and into the room next door. Without even knocking she slowly opened the door and entered Kris" darkroom.
In an instant, Kris turned around and pointed a gun at Lena. She stopped but he immediately withdrew it once he noticed it was Lena. He ruffled his hair. Lena continued to walk to him and sat on the bed.
She touched his face. "Did you have a nightmare? You"re sweating."
"Yeah..." He did not want to start lying to her now since yesterday he was the one that asked for a real relations.h.i.+p... and honest one between themselves. "Did you need something?"
Lena got up and grabbed a towel. "You go shower first."
He took it and then walked to the bathroom. "You want to join me?"
Lena was going to reject him... but her baby had a nightmare probably because she triggered some bad memories for him yesterday and then kick him out of her room too... "Fine. But nothing more."
"No promises."
The "nothing more" turned into a heated session in the small shower. Lena saw first hand how a morning e*rection was for a man like Kris, even though he had a nightmare! But seeing him cheerful and laughing, it was a good start for their day.
They both dried each other hair when they got out of the shower.
"So what is it?" Kris asked Lena again.
"My parents... they want me home." Lena turned around as a thought past her mind. "You don"t think they know about us... already, right? My parents spy on me a lot...."
Kris shook his head. As far as he can tell, his mother was the strictest spy a parent can be on their child. Lena"s parent would not know unless his mother found out first... and his mother had not called nor texted him about anything at all.
"Let"s eat then we can leave."
"We won"t be able to go out for dinner." Lena reminded.
"It"s ok. We"ll have lots of dinners together from now on."
They had their breakfast and then left to go to his car. The yacht parked where Kris had his car so it was a short distance. He kissed Lena goodbye at the underground parking lot so she could drive her own car to her parent"s house.
Kris rode the speed elevator up to his penthouse. He wondered if he should connect the elevator to Lena"s house too. He will ask her about that another time. He smiled and opened his door. Right when the door opened, a punch immediately landed on Kris" face. Kris looked up to see a smiling man.
"Hugh..."
Ming Zhao shrugged. "That"s one out of five. You know the tradition, or else I would not be here."
The men have a tradition where you would get to punch by each of them if you got a new girlfriend. Lay had the most but then they stopped after it got useless with him. Collin had his when he dated Stella. And now, Kris will too.
Kris saw a smiling Lay behind Ming and then the rest of the group. "F*ck!" He did not expect his wondrous morning to be like this.
"Oh wait... it"s one out of six... since we invited Gary."
"Why does that man know your Hugh?"
"Oh... cuz..." Ming went closer to whisper to Kris. "Cuz he found out I am your ex-wife."
"F*ck off."Kris pushed Ming off him. Their fake ID marriage had been a secret among the two men only. Now... four of them know... but Lena does not know who Hugh was.