Desde sempre e para sempre Chapter 20

Desde sempre e para sempre

Chapter 20

As soon as he lowered his gun, Naina charged into him, tumbling onto the sand on top of him. He might have melted her bones but held at gun point, her desire to survive kicked in.

Gael was caught off guard not by her move, he had already guessed that by her stance, but by seeing her in front of him! He could have moved away easily but then she would have fallen on her face and hurt herself. He actually cushioned her by grabbing her before she ran smack into him and took the hit. However, in order to do so he had to drop the gun.

Was it worth it?

Naina straddled him and grabbed the gun instantly holding him at gunpoint.

Damn right, it was worth it!

Naina: “Hands where I can see them!”

God dammit, she knew how to use a gun! He had not seen that one coming. Well, that was a good thing considering he was at gun point and she wouldn't accidentally shoot him he hoped...

Naina: “HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM!”

Gael: “You mean off your waist?”

She placed the muzzle on his chest and unlocked it: “I know how to use it…”

She then traced it down towards his navel: “Of course, I will start with something more painful than your heart…”

Gael let go and stretched his hands above his head: “It’s not a toy, Naina.”

Naina locked the gun skillfully keeping it aimed at him: “Quite a heavy gun to carry around…”

Gael: “Heavier than the chunk of bangles you have on?”

It was quite a sight. Those bangle adorned wrists and the gun in her hands…

Naina: “Heckler & Koch USP Elite, 9 mm Parabellum, .45 ACP with a sound suppressor…this is a pretty toy for a pretty boy…”

Dammit! She shouldn’t have locked the gun!

Half a second later, she was flat on the ground and he was straddling her, putting his gun back in its holder!

Gael winked at her: “I don’t need a gun to be on top of you.”

Naina: “Get off me!”

Gael leaned in closer and brushed his lips against hers: “Only because you didn't say you would scream.”

He got off her and held his hand out to help her up. She pushed his hand away embarrassed that she was already blushing because of that kiss and got up on her own.

Naina: “I am not on the plane; you don’t have to kiss me now!”

Gael: “Okay, great. I will charter a plane…”

Naina glared at him: “I meant…you know what…I should have just let you run into the water!”

Gael: “What?”

Naina: “You were going to shoot yourself when you were knee deep in the water, right? Why? Why would you want to kill yourself?? What about your grandmother? What about your brothers? How can you throw away…”

Gael burst out laughing.

Naina pushed him away and started walking away. She had just realized that she had been a fool. He had purposely tried to draw her out to the deserted place…

Gael: “Wait! Stop! Naina!”

Naina: “Stop following me! You molested me!”

Gael: “Wait, WHAT?”

Naina turned around and glared at him: “You purposely drew me out of the car…Back in the shed! The way you touched…”

Gael: “Hang on a second, before you go ahead calling me a rapist! I did not know it was YOU in the car and I wasn't trying to get a feel, I was checking for weapons!”

Naina stared at him, her mouth dropped. Okay, the part about him not knowing she was in the car, she agreed. She had just remembered that both their cars were tinted but…

Naina: “THAT’S HOW YOU CHECK FOR WEAPONS?”

Gael: “Well…by the time I realized what a sexy body you had…”

Naina: “What? What do you mean!? What if I really had a weapon on me…”

Naina stopped. He found her body sexy?

Gael: “Remind me how you got here again.” Because he really didn’t need to be reminded how her body had felt like pressed against him…

Naina: “I don’t want to talk to you…I am warning you! Stay away or else I will shoot you with the gun that is on me, the very one you missed, and dump your body in the ocean! And here I was thinking that you were going to kill yourself!”

Gael: “You tried to save me? Nobody has done that for me…”

Naina: “Not you! I tried to save a man! It could have been anybody!”

Gael grabbed her hand and pulled her toward him in a fierce hug: “Thank you.”

Naina: “For what?!”

Gael let her go: “For trying to save somebody.”

Naina: “Why do you have a gun?”

Damn, this woman! Her thoughts were all over the place! Couldn't she concentrate on one thing at a time? Like how much he wanted to kiss her again and again and again…

Gael: “To protect myself from crazy women.”

Naina: “Do you have a license? I can report you, you know? This is India. We have rules.”

Gael snorted: “Rules that nobody follows?”

Naina: “Excuse me! YOU were the one on the wrong lane, Mr. Foreigner! Didn't you go to driving school?”

Gael: “You don’t say! They have those in India? People actually enroll in driving schools?”

Naina: “Listen, Mister. You are the last person who can make any comment on Indian driving, okay? You were wrong!”

Gael: “Okay. I accept it was my mistake. I am sorry.”

Naina: “Good because gone are those days when the British could come over and change our system.”

Gael: “I am Brazilian not British.”

Naina: “Both start with a ‘B.’ That’s close enough for me.”

Naina started walking away; although not as gracefully as she would have liked considering the sand.

Gael ran past her and stood before her.

Gael: “Where are you going?”

Naina: “I am leaving. I got your apology and that’s all I wanted.”

Gael: “Okay…”

He moved to her side to let her pass.

Gael: “Will you be okay going back?”

Naina: “That is a question I should ask you! This is my city and I actually know how to drive.”

Gael: “If this is your city why are you in a hotel at this hour? Why are you not at home?”

Naina: “And this matters to you because?”

It mattered to him! Everything she did, does and will do mattered to him! Doesn't she understand?!

Gael: “You are right. None of my business.”

She started walking toward the car. He had to stop her….

Why? More important…How?

He grabbed her hand and pulled her to him. Just like that she came into his arms and fit perfectly into his embrace as he lightly brushed his lips against her to distract her. With his free hand, he snitched her car keys and hid them in his pocket.

When he broke the kiss, he spoke before she lashed out.

Gael: “We fought; it was only natural that a kissed followed.”

Naina wanted to kiss him back...NO! She wanted to...needed to walk away but her knees felt weak…This man and his kisses…

What was she going to do?!

Naina: “I…give up!” Its not like she could have said anything that would have made sense anyway! 

She turned around and started walking away, as fast as she could. She was scared the he could hear her heart going hmmmmmm....

As soon as she reached the car, she stuck her hand in her pocket to pull the keys out. Oh-oh! She looked everywhere, no keys…panic mode!

What if she they fell out of pocket while she was running…

Gael walked over to his car trying his best not to whistle.

Anytime now…

Naina ran back to look for it. It was dark and she didn’t work best when she was in her panic mode. Oh my God, Kuku was going to kill her…it was HIS fault.

She ran back to his car.

Naina: “I LOST MY KEYS BECAUSE I WAS CHASING YOU! BECAUSE OF YOU!”

Gael: “I can hear you just as well when you are not shouting.”

Naina: “My keys…I can’t find them! I looked…everywhere! As much as I could….what am I going to do…”

Gael: “I can take you home.”

Naina: “An auto can take me home! It’s not about me, Kuku…”

Gael: “It’s about a Cuckoo?”

Naina: “Not a Cuckoo! My friend! Kuku, he rented the car!”

Gael: “He?”

Naina: “Yes, he did! I don’t have the money to buy these flashy cars!”

Gael: “You and Cuckoo…”

Naina: “I should call Kuku…”

Naina started patting her pockets for her mobile: “It’s in the car!!! What am I going to do…”

She grabbed his tie just like she had on the plane: “You fix this!”

Gael pulled his tie out of her hold: “I am not fixing anything. Ask the Cuckoo to fly here and fix this.”

Naina: “You are so ungrateful! All of this happened because I tried to save your life!”

Gael: “No! All this happened because Ms. India wanted an apology and let me remind you, you were not saving MY life, you were saving ‘anybody’s’ life!”

Naina: “Okay! But please, may I borrow your phone. I need to call him.”

Gael: “You have his number memorized?!”

Naina nodded: “Let me just tell him and he will understand. He always does and then he can come and pick me up and fix this for me! He always saves the day…”

Gael: “No!”

Naina: “No?”

Gael: “I will take you back. You are right. All of this happened because of me and let me be the one to fix it for you.”

And not the Cuckoo, not on his watch.

Gael walked over to the passenger door of his car and opened it for her: “Get in my car.”

Naina: “Maybe I should drive.”

Gael: “Maybe you should look for your keys in the water.”

Naina needed his help now and she decided to shut up. She got in the car and buckled up. However, she waited for him to get in the car to do the sign of the Cross.

Gael rolled his eyes and started the car just as John’s phone beeped with the next set of directions to the Governor's residence…Damn! He had forgotten all about it! That never happened! Nothing slipped his mind…this woman…

Gael: “I have to run an errand first.”

Naina: “What? Now? Breno, not now please…”

It took him great effort to not do what she willed. It shook him as he realized that he would do cartwheels on the sand for her right away if she so desired. He was Gael Bourgeois and no one controlled him, he controlled everyone!

Gael: “That was not a question. You are a big girl. Its not like you have a curfew to abide by.”

Oh no! Her Dadi didn’t know she had snuck out! She was in India! She most certainly had a curfew!

Gael pulled out and drove straight to the Governor’s residence.