What? What? What??

I looked at the man in front of me dumbfounded. D-did he just kiss me? I was so surprised that I couldn't hear anything that Kane was saying. I just stood still as his hand was still clenching around my throat. His palm was so big, warm and soft. His thumb started to make small moves, but no matter how small it was, I could feel it perfectly since all my attention was on his hand. He never lost eye contact with me and he approached his face until I could only feel his hot breath on my cheek. My heart was beating so fast and I could feel my pants getting a little too tight.

"What would you do if," his hold on my neck got tighter making me gasp and flinch, "you can't breathe anymore?" with that said the flow of oxygen stopped and all I could see was his eyes. And it was at this moment that I saw how cruel and emotionless that man was. I couldn't see anything, it was as if... He was empty. He was like an empty shell, a mere puppet waiting for his master's order.

"T-then... k-kill me..." I weakly said since the lack of oxygen started to affect my conscious. I started to see some black spots. This was bad... I was going to faint soon, but suddenly, his grip loosened and I no longer felt his grip on my neck. I lost my balance and finished on my knees as I started to breathe heavily. When I was sure that I wasn't going to faint anytime soon, I looked up. And there he was standing in front of me while looking down at me. He was so tall from down here... He crouched down, but he didn't say anything. "Why didn't you?"

He looked at me with a bored expression, "You didn't mean it."

"How did you know?" I sat down in a more comfortable position as I gently massaged my neck.

"If you think that I would obey every commands without a thought, do you know how many people would be dead right now?" he sighed, "Go kill him! He's a traitor!... Kill that bitch, she spilled my coffee on my new clothes... Kill that dog, it's too ugly..." he mimicked different people voices making me look at him weirdly.

"But... you said that you'll obey me," I coughed a little and he sat up to walk toward a chair and took the bottle on it before coming back and giving it to me.

"Yes and I will, but only after I eliminate your Father's killer. Then, you can go on your knees and beg me to kill you any way you want," he smirked and patted my head before walking away.

I watched him walk away and clenched my teeth. Who would beg on his knees?! To ask him to kill me? I should be desperate to do that. But I had a bigger problem, why the hell did I have an erection?! As I pouted, I didn't notice Heather coming next to me.

"Earl, are you okay? How's your neck?" she tried to touch my neck, but I pushed her hand away.

"Don't worry, it will heal," I simply answered not wanting to meet her gaze and changed my position, so the bulge in my pants wasn't so obvious.

"But at least let me apply some cream and bandages," tears started to appear in her eyes, "It is my fault. If only I won, you wouldn't have been injured..."

I sighed, feeling a little more guilty, "It's okay, don't cry. I'm not mad at you anymore... And go ahead," I showed my neck and she smiled a little.

She went to take the first aid kit in the closet. Then she kneeled next to me and started to treat my wound. She gently disinfected it before putting some cream on. I sighed at the cold feeling. It was so nice, since now, I didn't even notice how in pain I really was. Then she put the bandage on covering my whole neck. It felt a little weird with the constant pressure on my neck. As if I was always being slightly strangulated... I was certain that in a few days, I would have his fingermark on my neck. If he wanted it, he could really had broken it. If he put a little more pressure, he would have crushed it.

But he didn't.

I grinned and touched my bandaged neck, he looked so sexily dangerous. I wanted to see him kill someone. Would he have the same expression of indifference or will he have an one that I never saw before? Seeing him kill my Father's killer was enough to make me pant in excitement. I had to watch how he would kill him. I wanted to see the killer suffer and hear his screams, smell his blood and see his pain.

When Heather finished, she went back to work as I decided to go out for a bit. I had some business in town. As I walked toward the exit, a hand landed on my shoulder. I looked back and saw Kane staring at me.

"What do you want?" I continued to walk toward the car.

"I am going too."

"Weren't you busy with something else?" I groaned. I didn't want to be alone with him for now. Not after what just happened...

"I'm never busy for you," I blushed at his comment, but anger immediately took over when he spoke again, "I am hungry, so buy me something to eat too."

"Then just go to the cafeteria! I am busy!" I unlocked the car as I gripped the keys and he just sat on the passenger seat. I groaned, but went into the car too. 

The engine roared to life and in matter of seconds, we were already on the road. It would take two and a half hour to get to town. Well, if he was hungry then good for him. He would just have to starve to death! The ride was a silent one since Kane was concentrated on the landscape. Well, it wasn't that interesting, there were sand everywhere.

"It changed," said Kane after a while.

"What have?" I glanced his way before looking back on the road.

"The scenery... What happened here after the Great World War?"

"I don't really know, since I was born, it was already like this... It's a desert, a rather big one," I answered as we arrived at the border of the town.

Even if it was a town in the middle of a desert, it was rather a popular with the tourists. It was hot as hell, everything was expensive and it wasn't as if there was no danger. Tourists were the easiest group of people to get scammed.

"What are we here for?" he asked looking around.

"Business," I simply answered while putting all my concentration on which roads to take.

"As a scientist masochistic or as a mafia boss in denial?" he asked, but I didn't know if he was joking or not. If so, he should work on his monotonous tone.

"You don't need to be an asshole..." I muttered.

I heard him hum as he repositioned himself in his seat. I sighed as I turned left and found an empty spot. Lucky! I parked my car and turned it off.

"You'll-" I started, but Kane cut me off by saying that he would come too and was already out of the car.

I opened my door and slammed it shut. I walked in front of him as he followed me from behind. We walked for a while before I spotted a shabby bar on the corner of the road. Someone contacted me saying that he possessed information about some unreleased information about the Great World War. To be honest, I really doubted the credibility of it as people could do anything for money. The more I thought about it, the more it looked like a scam.

I spotted the man I wanted since he sent me a mail saying that he would be wearing a red shirt and a pale yellowish hat... And another thing that he didn't report... He had a fucking woman on his lap and God, please someone had to tell them to take a room! I surely didn't want to be seen with them. But I didn't have a choice... Did I? I groaned and sat down on the other side of the table without warning making the girl gasp and she glared at us.

"What do you want?" she asked as she pushed her hair behind her shoulder and at the same time, Kane went to stood beside me. She immediately shut up, forgetting about me, and looked at him up and down before playing with her hair. I rolled my eyes, what a stupid girl.

"Your... Boyfriend called me here," I raised an eyebrow as I looked at the man beside her.

"I wasn't expecting ya this early man," he answers as he hand was still on the woman's shoulder. I glanced at the woman and she was still eyeing Kane. She was now chewing on her nail as if he was giving her the best show of the moment.

"It's 3:00 p.m." I said starting to get annoyed. "I am here on time as you wanted."

"Really?!" he exclaimed before starting to laugh loudly. "When you have a chick as beautiful as mine, time pass so fast."

"If you're busy, we can always come back later," I would never come back, he didn't looked like a man who would spend his free with his nose in books.

"That's okay stay man, do you want something to drink? Order anything you want," he finished his bottle of beer.

"No thanks, just tell me what you know."

"Chill bro, take a few beers first. Let's chat a bit or you'll never find a chick of your own" he smiled before yelling about wanting four bottles of beer.

"I am busy, so tell me or I leave," I continued making him sigh.

"It would be a thousand bucks for the info," he leaned on the table.

"Only if I judge your information worthy of a thousand bucks. For now, I doubt you even know your own history. So don't even think about the GWW."

"You fu-" he started and violently sat up, but was stopped by the woman beside him. She whispered something into his ear and he just narrowed his eyes and grumbled, "No bucks, no info."

I sighed, "A hundred bucks," I put the money in front of me and the woman tried to subtly take it from me, but Kane stopped her. "Information before money and if you dare waste my time... You'll regret it..."

•••

In fact, the man had nothing for us. He thought he could make easy money, but he was wrong. What a waste of time. I wasn't expecting much from that from the beginning, but it was still frustrating. Kane didn't even mutter a single word, not even to the two basketballs bouncing in from of his nose during all the "meeting".

"You still hungry?" I asked as we were back into the car.

"Was it your intent to starve me?"

I didn't answer to that because I knew he knew that the answer was yes. "What do you want to eat?"

"You," as soon as I heard that I nearly chocked on my saliva.

"That's not funny!" I exclaimed frustrated. "Be serious."

"I am always serious," our gaze meet and none of us broke it until he leaned in to peck at my lips. I was about to hit him, but he easily stopped it and said, "I want meat, a thick and juicy piece of meat."

I blushed and just clumsily started the car, "Fine... Let's go to a steak house."