35 Laura at Gaming:

Dario had his fingers trailing down the side of Laura's face, his dark eyes on hers. Even in the poorly lit room, he could see how much that single act affected her. They were in storeroom at the ground floor which had an exit to the streets where Dario's car had been packed. They could as well use the now disused exit door but that was too risky. They could easily be seen.

They had used the stairs from the tenth floor to where they were. Since the agency had escalators and elevators, the stairs weren't in use. Ten floors for a person who never worked out in her life...you know how it ended.

"You said you could do it." Dario said to her while his fingers still trailed her face. His eyes staring down at her were so gentlebbut with a little bit of intensity as if he was restraining himself from doing something.

He didn't expect any response, so when he was given one dejected-toned response, he didn't think things through when he pulled her gently into his arms. His fingers were now on her hair, rubbing through it gently.

"I lied." She had started in a little whisper, "I always do. I said i could handle the business...said i didn't care about Liz anymore...said i didn't need anybody in my life. They were all lies." She had finished in a whimper and Dario had pulled her into his arms gently comforting her.

His action triggered more tears and now she was crying. The second time she cried after Ray's death. The second time she allowed someone see her vulnerable side. Dario didn't know that. He didn't need to know. So she didn't say anything.

Dario too didn't say anything. His shoulders were enough. He would only offer more if she asked. Which she did. She didn't expressly said it but had implied it by her conduct.

Laura pulled away a little bit from him such that she could see his face with the contact not lost.

Those dark eyes starred back at her. She had seen the worry in his eyes for her. He cared. He had cared from the start. She knew it, she had just chosen to ignore it...maybe playing dumb because she was scared. She knew it when he left everything to work as a temporary employee. She knew it from the unexpectedly planned lifts. She could see it when he visited her in the hospital when Derry was sick and also when she was sick. She could feel it from subtle eye contact which affected her more than everything. She knew it when he came in today...for her.

Even now as he looked down at her, she could see the raw intensity of his emotions. Raw...he needed not say anything about how he felt, Laura could see it. The intense raw emotions.

Laura palm found their way on his face...his eyes, making sure his eyes were closed before pressing her lips on his then withdrawing immediately.

Dario removed the hands pressing gently on his eyes. She was staring at everything but him. And he really wanted her to look at him...at how raw he was with her...what she was doing to her...he wanted to convey all those from his eyes. So, his thumb on her chin, he managed to get her stare at his eyes.

That is the first time he saw it. The golden green orbs with a faint brown. The glow in her eyes was mesmerising. Those eyes were drawing him closer to her with only one word at the back of his mind. Hazel.

Away from the black and hazel eyes.

The kiss.

It was a fish kiss. Those annoying fish kisses that Dario hated from series. That didn't change. He hated every bit of it only that the reason this time round was different. He hated it because he was dazed. He didn't do anything. He could have drawn her closer and kissed her back deeply but he didn't.

But he was going to change that.

His eyes travelled downwards to her lips. She was biting nervously at them. Her pink lips were now swollen from alot of biting but that made them even more luscious. Irresistible. He didn't think he could resist though. He didn't resist them.

His hands found her neck drawing her closer before closing the remaining gap between their lips. She tasted a little bit of strawberry or was that her scent. It didn't matter, he only knew that her lips were addictive.

He could tell that she was shocked at first but that changed when Dario tongue sought entrance which she gladly gave. She was now kissing him back. Their tongue didn't have to fight for dorminance. She allowed him to dominate while she tried her best to stop the moans that were threatening to escape from the back of her throat. With time, his free hands found her waist, pressing their bodies together, he again deepened the kiss. He didn't even realize he was crushing her until he felt her palm on his chest pushing him away.

He moved away, still with the look of hunger. He wanted more...more kisses. He saw her struggling to catch her breath and wondered whether she didn't know she needed to breath while kissing.

"Breath with your nose," his now husky voice reverberated in the room and just when Laura thought the kiss had ended, Dario was again pressing her on the walls of the dark store room, lips on hers again. This time round, it was gentle, no hurry. His lips moving sensually against hers, slowly but with a little taint of urgency. There was restraint in his moves, like he was stopping himself from doing more...getting more. His teeth grazed on her upper lips leaving a little bite before sucking on gently it to mitigate pain. He pulled away slightly to look at her now swollen lips with a big smile on his face. Laura frowned at the lost contact which made him feel good knowing that he was not the only one who wanted more.

Pressing their forehead together and with his hands clasping both at her cheeks, he whispered, "Let's get you out of here hazel," the huskiness in his voice still there. It came out as a conviction. There was reluctance in his voice. If that was a daydream, then he wanted it to last long. But he also understood that the longer they stayed the more their chances of being found out. So reluctantly, he held her hands and guided them towards the window.

Laura followed him blindly until the stop at the window. She looked at him with questioning eyes, the green in her eyes now replaced by brown. Her eyes were so pretty, he never knew there was a tint of green in them. He saw it today, when she had looked at him with a wild intensity.

"Don't be scared. I'll not let you fall." He reassured, squeezing her hands.

And she trusted him

Trust.

A simple word with alot of weight.

Just like love, it is so powerful it can change the fate of a person. It is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the very best in people. But it takes time and patience.

Trust. Laura trusted Dario. It didn't take time, neither did she have to be patient. The last person she had trusted this much was Ray but with him, it took alot of time. And that was her worry. With Dario things were so simple...so fast...seemed so wild...so dangerous. Dangerous, not because of age or any other complications, dangerous because it was at the point of driving her crazy. In as much as she tried avoiding him, she found herself back on his arms. But she didn't hate it.

Dario placed a table by the window.

"I'll go first, then I'll catch you when you come down." He waited for a response and after getting a nod from her, he jumped.

Laura too did the same and was held as promised by him.

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Gaming and R&L were both in the same town. Gaming was like a ten-minutes drive from R&L without traffic. So ten minutes later, the two were discretely using the back door of the other building block to get in. That was the block with the kids. It was safer since apart from the kids and the instructors, nobody else was there.

Just as they got in, they were met by red-haired Kyle, his curious eyes on the other person. Laura's hazel eyes stared back at him. Dario looked at the two in a staring competition. He expected Kyle to be the first to look away and probably look down. Just like he had done earlier that morning. But...

Kyle waved at Laura, his smile bright and pure.

What the hell! Dario hadn't recovered from that when he had Kyle's voice, "His friend?"

He asked with his little fingers alternating between Dario and Laura.

Laura broke the gaze shifting it to Dario in confusion. When Dario opened his mouth to answer, he was interrupted by Kyle again,

"He was frowning in the morning. Said a friend in trouble."

Feeling like a third wheel between the two, Dario decided to keep quiet and watch. The glimmer in Laura's eyes was a better show for him anyway.

"I'm Kyle."

"Laura. I love your name." Laura replied warming up to the little redhead before him.

"I love your eyes. They're so pretty." This earned him a scoff from Dario who was now looking at him in disbelief. What was the redhead trying to do? He glared at him, a gentle glare to which Laura smiled. She smiled. Naturally and not forced.

"I love your hair." Laura went with the flow just to further press Dario's butt more.

"But it is dyed."

"I can tell. What is it natural color?"

"Brunette. I love blondes though. Why did you dye it to brown?" Kyle asked the woman who was taken a back. How did he know she had dyed her hair.

Dario looked at Laura's hair. It was always light brown. He didn't understand the blonde and dye shit Kyle was spitting.

"You don't like this?"

Kyle shook his head rapidly.

"I love it. I just don't understand why those with blonde hair dye it."

Laura raised her eyebrows in question. She had caught the suggestive tone from his words.

"Who?"

"My mum. Hers was dyed to black."

"Was? What about now?"

She asked the boy whose enthusiasm had now died down and was back to looking down. Laura's hand left Dario's and reached for his. She lowered herself to his height, rubbing his palm gently when she had a soft voice. More like a whisper.

"She died."

Even Dario didn't expect that. Kyle had someone with him when he arrived at the base yesterday. A couple though he couldn't recall if at all there was any resemblance between them.

He promise to look into it as he watched Laura hugging the sad redhead.

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