Chapter 7: Chapter 7

Author's POV

“Chase”

The word left her mouth and his lips curled up into a tiny smile which she couldn’t notice because of shock.

She didn’t expect the one standing outside of her room to be him. And specifically not at this hour of time.

“If you don’t want to invite any bug in that mouth of yours, I suggest you to close it” Chase said in a teasing tone and Cara quickly shut her mouth putting her hand on her lips.

He smirked at her reaction and entered into her room and it was when she came out of her shock.

She turned around to find him looking around in her dorm room.

“What are you doing here?” she whisper yelled while walking towards him after closing the door and standing two steps away from him.

He turned around to look at her with a raised brow. And she realized that she is talking with the infamous bully Chase, so she should mind her tone.

“I mean it is a girls dorm. Boys are not allowed in here” she said softly taking one more step away from him.

He was observing each and every move of hers. He sat down on the unoccupied bed, out of the two beds in the room, his eyes fixed on her standing self.

If he said that he was not itching to touch her right now, it would be the biggest lie of the century. She is looking so tempting in that oversized blue shirt which is reaching her mid thigh.

She noticed how his gray eyes suddenly turned dark when he looked her from top to bottom and it made her a bit uneasy. She clutched the hem of her shirt in her fists due to nervousness.

He quickly averted his gaze from her smooth and sexy legs which he wanted to be wrapped around his waist and fixed his gaze on her face.

“Don’t you know who I am? I think four days were enough to find out about me” he asked while leaning forward and resting his elbows on his knees, interlocking his hands in front of his face.

“I know” she whispered and his smirk widened.

“So you should know that Chase Adams is a very definition of Rule breaker. And no one dares go against me” he said.

A frown of confusion appeared on her face upon hearing his words but soon the confusion got replaced with shock when he uttered his next words.

“It means girls dorm or not, I can come here anytime I want, I can do anything as I deem pleased. If I want to share this room with you for whole semester, no one is going to stop me” he said the last part using his sensual deep husky tone.

Cara felt her knees going weak under her weight and she sat on her bed, in order to not lose her balance. She gulped visibly and he smirked knowing too well that his words left the effect he wanted to leave.

The silence fell over them. She didn’t have courage to question him or tell him to get out of her room so that she can sleep. It’s already midnight for crying out loud.

She lifted her eyes to look at him who is sitting on the other bed in the room, in front of her.

Her heartbeat increased when she found him staring right into her eyes. His expressions were blank but his eyes were swirling with various emotions which were hard for Cara to decipher.

She instantly looked away and after realizing that he is not planning on saying anything she gathered all of her courage and asked, “Do you have something to say? Or any other reason why you came here?”

“I wanted to check if you are okay” the words left his mouth even before he knew it causing her eyes to widen.

“Huh?”

But it’s the reason why he came here.

After watching her leave the college, he went to the café where she works. He wanted to know if she is okay.

But he found out that it was her day off. So he went back to his apartment. Not even a single second of him was spent without thinking about her.

It was driving him crazy. He doesn’t know what’s wrong with him but he just wanted to check if she is alright.

He talked with Sapphire earlier before leaving the campus and asked about Cara. She told him that Cara was okay. She was just a bit overwhelmed, as she was main subject of the fight between two most popular boys.

She didn’t tell him about her panic attacks.

But he knew she wasn’t telling him the whole truth and was hiding something. He wanted to threaten her and force her in telling him everything but George stopped him.

That is why when his restlessness reached it’s peak, he got up from the bed and came out of his apartment. He drove to the dorm building and only when he was about to knock on the door of her room, he realized it’s almost midnight.

But was it enough reason to stop him from meeting her, no it wasn’t.

He knocked on the door and heard her melodious voice, which never fails in pulling a string of his heart.

And when she opened the door, all the air got knocked out of his system.

He came out of his thoughts when he heard her voice.

“What… what do you mean?” she asked.

“You just ran away from cafeteria and I could not ask you if you were okay or not, that is why I came here” he replied softly.

Words were leaving his mouth on their own accord.

Her heartbeat increased upon hearing the softness of his tone. His always cold expressionless face had a concern written all over it.

His gray orbs which were dark few minutes ago were now desperately asking for an answer.

“I am okay now. It’s just that I was shocked because of what Law did…” she paused when his jaw clenched and his hands balled into fists. His eyes filled with pure fury.

She quickly added in order to divert his attention, “But I was more scared about the fight. I don’t like flights”. His eyes softened instantly.

“Is that why you ran away?” he inquired. She nodded her head.

Silence again fell over them for few seconds before he asked, “Do I scare you?” He tried asking in soft voice but it came out in quite cold tone.

Her eyes widened upon hearing his words. Fear started crawling in to her vein when the thought that he felt offended by her came to her mind.

“No… no… you don’t… I am so.. sorry if.. I.. I made you feel that …way…I..” she stuttered badly.

“Hey relax Cara. Breath…” he said softly while walking towards her and sitting beside her on the bed.

She followed his breathing pattern and started taking deep breaths. After few minutes her breathing evened.

She turned around to look at him but her breath hitched when she realized how close he was sitting.

“You okay?” he asked and she nodded her head, looking straight ahead at the wall in front of her.

After few moments of silence he whispered, “You don’t have to be scared of me Cara. I don’t know you heard it or not but I don’t hurt woman”.

She lifted her eyes to stare at his face, who was looking everywhere but her.

“I am sorry if I made you think that I am scared of you” she said softly.

He fixed his gaze on her face and at this moment he didn’t find any ounce of fear in her eyes. “So you are not scared of me, right?” he asked and cursed himself in his mind for sounding so desperate.

“I am, a little but only when you are fighting or being all intimidating. Other times you seem…sweet” she hesitated but completed her sentence and she said it so adorably that he didn’t even mind her calling him sweet.

“Do you like Law?” he asked.

And even before hearing her answer his heart felt a pang of hurt just at the possibility of this thought.

But she answered instantly, “No I don’t”.

‘He is just interested in me because he wants to sleep with me but I am not a one night stand kind of person’ she wanted to say it loudly but didn’t want to make him angry.

For some reason she felt that Chase didn’t like the idea of Law kissing her. She wanted to know why he was so angry at Law.

She might just be reading too much in his actions but her heart wanted to confirm his intentions before jumping to any conclusions.

So she did ask, “Why did you save me from Law? Why were you so angry that Law kis..”

His jaw clenched again and his eyes bored into hers daring her to continue. So she changed her words.

“I mean, why were you so angry when he touched me?” she completed and waited for the answer while staring deeply into those gray orbs. He didn't know how to answer this question.

She bit her lips because of all the nerves she was feeling in her body. His gaze fell on her soft pink plumpy lips and he swallowed hard to keep his control.

When he didn’t say anything, she whispered, “Chase”.

It was the last string to his control and he knew if he stayed here even for a second, he would definitely pounce on her and she is for sure going to hate him after that.

He got up from the bed and turned away from her so that his back was facing her. He had to close his eyes to take a deep breath in order to calm his burning desires. And push his hands into his pants pocket so that they won’t start acting on their own.

“I will… I will tell you the reason tomorrow in the college. Now sleep. See you tomorrow” he said in one breath and walked out of there.

Leaving her confused with thousands of questions in her mind.

‘I don’t think I will be able to sleep tonight’ she thought.

Still unaware of what she did to him and his heart with her small actions.