Wing Of Change
Chapter 24

Aria came face to face with another unfamiliar face standing at her door step the moment she unlocked it and stepped outside.

The new fellow had his hands folded behind his back with a smirk decorating his chiseled cheeks.

Who the hell was he?…

She arched her brow a little trying to remember if she has come across that face somewhere before or he just happened to look so awfully familiar but got nothing as she was left to stare back at a white pair of teeth and a mesmerizing smile staring right back at her.

Okay!

She stepped back a little as the guy was all over her face and causing her to loose focus without even realizing it.

He stood a good two foot taller than her.

He was clothed in a black joggers and paired with an equally black body hug T-shirt that was doing some serious justice to his masculine body.

He must be spending ungodly hours at the gym no doubt. Aria had noted with a mental nod.

Shaking her head slightly and pulling herself back to reality, her left brow rose at the stranger suspiciously with her arms crossing her chest.

“Who are you and how may I help you?”

“Oh, i’m sorry. Please forgive my manners” He began with a nervous chuckle.

“My name is Henry! Your new neighbor?” he smiled even more and offered his palm for a hand shake.

Neighbor? What neighbor

She gave a quick shrug but didn’t hug his hand back as she was still wry of him.

She was aware, the flat opposite hers was vacant but she wasn’t notified about anyone moving in and especially not this hot demigod.

Damn she was beginning to get distracted again by this hunk of a human being.

Snap out of it girl.

“Welcome to the building Henry but do you need anything in particular that I can help you with?” She had asked with both hands anchored against her waist.

Scratching the back of his head and flexing his arm muscles in the process, he flashed her a lopsided smile yet again as he stepped closer to her but not enough to intimidate her in anyway.

“I was hoping you could lend me your painting brush? That’s if you have any and don’t mind?”

Paint brush? That’s why he woke her up and acting this way?

“I thought I got everything I needed from the shop yesterday. Turns out that particular item slipped my mind” he quickly explained further after he noticed the question in Aria’s eyes.

“Yes I do and I really don’t mind lending it out as well”

“Okay, thanks” Henry had said happily_rubbing his palms together in eager anticipation.

“Just wait here, let me go grab it from the kitchen”

“Uhm,Okay”

She spun around and walked back into her and returned a moment later with the black brush with a red handle.

“Here you go” stretching forth her hand with the brush.

His skin came in contact with her knuckles causing her to let go of the handle abruptly.

“Thanks”

“You are wel_welcome”

She couldn’t understand why she was getting nervous and intimidated all of a sudden. But she knew she was better off without the hand contact even though it wasn’t deliberate on his part.

He flashed her a small smile and a nod before turning around on his heels to leave but stopped half way…

Now what?

Did he forget to ask for something else?

“What do I call you? I never really got your name”

Oh! The name!

“Aria! My name is Aria”

“Okay miss Aria..thanks for the brush. I will make sure to return it as soon as am done with it”

“Aria..Just call me Aria and do take your time with the brush. I won’t be needing it anytime soon” She told him honestly before waving him off as she moved back a little and pushed the door close.

She didnt make it back to bed before she heard another knock at her front door halting her next step.

What the hell does he want now. She gave a low g***n in frustration.

She pulled her front door open only to have Frank standing right there with a bouquet of flowers in one hand.

What the hell is wrong with these men just showing up at her door step so unannounced.

“It’s you” she told him in surprise.

“Yes! It’s me. Were you expecting someone else?” Frank had said with an air of uncertainty.

“Uhm..no, am just surprised to see you here”

“Well, i came over to see you”

“Uhm, come inside then” She stepped to the side to allow him walk through.

Frank walked into the comfort of her living room surveying its simplicity.

Everything was still exactly the same as the last time he was there. Nothing has changed.

Everything was just as neatly arranged and seating in their various places.

“Do have a seat” said Aria pointing to the cushion behind him.

“Uhmm, here..I brought this for you”

“Flowers?” She replied eyeing the fresh lilly in his outstretched hands.

“Yes! There are for you”

“Oh Kay! Flowers for me” She grabbed them from his hands and placing them under her nostrils_she inhaled its sweet fragrance before walking towards her dinning and dropped them in the one of the empty vase on the table.

Frank just stood there watching her as she filled the vase with water.

After she was done. She turned back to stared at him with a smile decorating her face.

“Thank you for the flowers. There are lovely”

“Thank you too for everything you did last night. Heck_ am more ashamed than thankful. Do accept my sincere apologizes”

“Apologise accepted” She answered with a shrug.

“Just like that? You are not angry at me? Or secretly wishing to beat me with your shoe?” Frank had asked with a furrowed brow.

“Why would I be? I mean it’s not like you did anything wrong by getting yourself drunk. You are a full grown adult even though I would recommend you do it at home just in case of next time”

Her last time must have come off in an offensive way as Frank rebuked her almost immediately.

“There won’t be a next time. Last night was just a relapse and it won’t happen again” Frank had spoken more to himself than to Aria.

“Okay!”

She said simply as she settled down on the next cushion opposite him.

A good amount of silent washed over them before Aria decided to head back to the kitchen.

“What can I offer you”

Frank looked to her for a moment before replying.

“A bottle of water will be fine”

Aria nodded at his reply before pulling her fridge open and retrieved a bottle of chilled water and took it to him.

“Thank you” Frank had told her.

Aria sat there watching him gulp down the bottle of water and couldn’t help but wondered what could be running through his mind.

It took her a while to realize the man that lies beneath all that tough man act he had everyone trembling over the years.

Frank was just as vulnerable as everyone else but no one has to know that.

Aria was so lost in thought that she didn’t realize Frank was also staring at her with his head bent slightly to the side in a thoughtful way.

What could he be thinking?

Aria couldn’t even manage a single word before he covered the distance from where he sat on the cushion to where she was in a few stride and took her hand in his and led her to stand up on her feet before pulling her into his chest.

Aria could only stare at his board chest with both hands holding her captive in utter disbelief.

Frank reaction was so sudden that she barely had time to process what has gotten into him or what could be going on.

She wasn’t properly dressed to begin with. She was clothed in her baggy short and loose T-shirt with absolutely nothing underneath. That was all she could throw on before diving into bed when she arrived at her home that morning and she couldn’t help but curse at that very decision at that moment.

Her exposed nipple were all erect at the body contact.

She only wondered if he had noticed it too because he was still holding her captive in his arms without even saying as much as a word.

The proximity of their body was beginning to make her go limp in his arms and it’s not because he was suffocating her with his hold but because her senses were getting dilated by his strong cologne.

He smelled so nice and intoxicating like citrus in summer and the way his heart beat in rhythms_ are causing her own heart to skip a beat.

He lessen his grip around her a bit before his eyes darted towards her chest and lingered around her full breast and erected nipple that was already straining the fabric of her clothes holding them back.

He diverted his attention back to her mouth that was slightly agape at his realization before a sly smile coiled up the corner of his lips and Aria knew in her already racing heart that she was done for.

His face began to descend towards her bit by bit; hoping she would stop him midway when he couldn’t hold back anymore. His senses were already lost in those eyes of hers and pulled by his own desire to feel the taste of her lips once again.

She was becoming his doom as well.

Her eyes clenched shut before she felt him claimed her plume lips in a fierce and possessive manner; leaving her weak around the knees and dazzled by his sudden show of affection.

Aria welcomed every assault on her lips with great anticipation and love as waves of strong need and emotions shot through her body like dynamites.

She was going to be his again.

Frank continued to k**s her senseless while she was literally left to beg for air.

Aria pulled away for a moment to catch her breath before he pulled her in for more and continued to savored and k**s the side of her cheek and down to her neck.

They ended up on top of the cushion with loud m**n and whimper amidst heavy panting. Frank was starting to loose his freaking control. Each taste of her lips was pulling him in and making him to want nothing more than to rip her clothes off her and claim her body once more just like he once did before.

She was already his…He could sense her willingness as she kept tugging at his shirt mindlessly.

He needed to feel her wetness

His arousal was beginning to strain the front of his pant_reminding him of the need to stop before he took her right there in her living room.

He pulled off from her abruptly and stood back on his feet again looking at everywhere except her direction.

“I’m sorry. Didn’t mean to loose control” he muttered and glance at her but she said nothing.

She sat back up adjusting her shirt before she got back on her feet and was about to walk past him when he held on to her wrist_halting her in her step but before he could say something again, his hands were beaten off as she openly stood glaring at him.

“Don’t you dare! And don’t forget to close the door on your way out”

Aria pushed past him and went running straight into her bedroom and slammed the door_leaving a puzzled and frustrated Frank standing in the middle of the living room not knowing what else to do to apologize or get her to listen without actually breaking through the door.

He always manages to ruin every moment spent with her doesn’t he?