I'm gonna love you. Until you hate me. And I'm gonna show you. What's really crazy. You should've known better. Than to mess with me, heartache. I'm gonna lie to you like a black widow baby.

I don't know how long the massage knocks me out for, but it wasn't long. The smell of breakfast cut my nap short. I smiled and open my eyes slowly and stared at the cover tray with pure curiosity.

"What's on the menu?"

"Eggs and toast." I sat down on the bed crossing my arms around my chest with a glare on my face. Seriously?

"Eggs. And. Toast?" I made sure to separate the words so Nathan could hear how stupid the breakfast was. Nathan opens the tray and lowered the breakfast so I could take a look. I'm not going to lie... It looks good and he made eggs and toast look fancy. I wasn't going to give him the satisfaction of nailing it on the first try.

Nathan stared at my face and the smile on his face started transforming into a glare. "You don't like it?" He asked with a tone full of disbelieve.

"NO." I lie. "And don't glare at me." He hid the glare behind a fake smile. The one I detested.

"What would you like?" His tone was fake friendly yet I still hear the hidden sarcasm.

"For one you to drop the sarcasm completely." He smiled wider.

"What would the princess like?"  This time I couldn't hear the sarcasm.

"I don't know, something I would actually like to eat." He turns on his heels without another word and walked away. As soon as he left I burst out laughing. Nathan wanted me to stay here and play with him. WEll, he had me, but if I had to lose the phone. I will make sure to make his life a living hell.

I sent a silent prayer to Marcus and beg him for forgiveness. I shouldn't have played into Nathan's game. But the thought of making Aurora suffer even for a few weeks was too much to pass.

Nathan came back half an hour later with handmade french toast, scrambled eggs which looked freshly made too, and handmade orange juice. My mouth watered at the sight. Nathan gave me his smug smile knowing damn well he nailed it. Yet again.

"Better?"

"Nope." I lie again. You took too long. I want lunch. His smile died on his lips and he stared at the clock on the nightstand on purpose.

"Zoey it's 10 am in the morning." He said thru gritted teeth. It was obvious by his anger. Nathan wasn't used to be treated like this which amused me and it was refreshing to get under his skin. He took a deep breath and tried to look friendly. "What would you like for brunch?" He made sure to let me know what type of food he was making.

"You know what?" He stared at me waiting. "I'm not hungry. Your incompetence has made me  lose my appetite." Nathan walked all the way to the nightstand and put the tray there, then got on the bed and started crawling towards me.  "What are you doing," I asked nervously. 

Nathan smirked at me crookedly and took off his shirt dropping it to the floor without breaking eye contact. I stared at his stupid chest hungrily. This jackass knew the effect he had on me. "Stop!" I whispered and neither of us believed it.

"You don't really want to..." He murmured still crawling towards me. Wasn't a few hours ago he wasn't ready to have sex with me? Now he was? I couldn't compete with this asshole mood swings. 

I lowered my self on the bed trying to escape his advance's on me, but all it got me was to put myself under him. "You have me all to your self and all you want me to do is massage and bring you food?"

"Yes?" But I made it sound like a question. Nathan gave me a crooked smile and lowered himself towards the hollow of my neck and took a deep breath and involuntary shiver ran down my body. I refuse to be this helpless against a vampire. I need to be strong even if I have to take a cold shower in a few seconds.

I put both hands on his broad chest and push him off me. He stepped back and I took the opportunity to sit down. "What's with you always smelling my neck?"

"I like your blood. If I have to compare it... It would be like you drinking the best wine." I purse my lips and glared at him with disgust.

"Get. Out!" He stared at my sudden anger with confusion.

"Why are you angry?" He had a point. Why was I?

"I am not food! I am a human being. This is why your creatures are so fucking disgusting." I spat with venom. Nathan reeled back until he was at the edge of the bed. I kept my glared on him not feeling sorry for this asshole. Nathan looked as if my words hurt him, but I knew better...

"We... can't help who we are," He murmured so low I wonder if I was meant to hear it. But I was not about to feel sorry for this creature.

"Kill yourself," I said heartlessly. Nathan growled and ripped off his jeans, and underwear in a second. I gasp and scooted back afraid of his sudden outburst. Nathan threw me against the bed pinning both of my hands behind my back and holding it with one of his. His legs kept mine pinned and in place, and with his free hands he ripped my PJs off. I trashed and buckled for the first time afraid of a vampire. Nathan gave me an evil smile and looked down at me.

"Let's see if you follow your own advice bitch!"

"Your... You're breaking your word..."

"You're not going to live long enough to rat me out." I closed my eyes tight and turn my head to the side trying to get away from his face. Nathan leaned down and smelled my neck in a menacing way knowing damn well how I felt about that.

"At least kiss me," I whispered. The words escape my lips before I could stop them. I kept my eyes tightly shut waiting for the hurt... Nothing happened... I started to open my eyes slowly...

Nathan was looking down at me with a frown. "You want us to be that intimate?"

"No-" I started to lie.

"You have been lying to me... You ARE attracted to me and not because of the bloodlust... is something more..."

I sigh defeated. I couldn't lie. I just asked the bloodsucker to kiss me. "Before kidnapping me for your evil purposes... You were trying to get me to fall for you..." He started to smile warmly at me.

"Stubborn little human," He murmured so low I didn't think he was speaking to me. He just figured something out and was talking to himself. I frown at his words regardless.

"You sound as if you don't like the challenge..." He smiles and sat down on the bed. I grabbed the sheets to cover my body and sat next to him.

"That's because I don't." He said honestly.

"You don't?" I ask again full with disbelieve. Hard to get was a thing man like now a day...

"I don't. I like things that are easy. I don't beg EVER." I stared at his lips then his eyes with an amused smile.

"Is that how you got Aurora?"

"Yup. When John met Jennifer." The smile on my lips die. I regret asking him immediately. A nut started forming hearing about my mother and that psycho. "He stopped asking for Aurora completely making her cranky... Aurora and I started talking... We kiss, then you know the rest..." He murmured.

I gulped down the lump in my throat before speaking. "Yeah well..." I paused trying to organize the thought in my head. "I am not playing hard to get-"

"I know." I looked up at Nathan with awe.

"What?" Then why try?

"I realized you are not hard to get... Zoey, you are hard to earn." We stared into each other's eyes for what it felt like forever...

"Nathan," I whispered. "Don't... I am a lost cause..."

"Why?"

"You're a vampire," I stated the obvious. Nathan rolled his eyes at me.

"Zoey, why the hate truly? I get it, John killed your mother... But the guy was a human that barely raised you." I glared at him annoyed.

"He raised me in love!" I snap.

"You just told me, you don't believe in love." He arched an eyebrow in a challenging way.

"I believe in their..." I was about to tell him more, and finally, open up to someone about deep details of my complicated thoughts when Nathan yawn as if whatever I was about to tell him bored him. "Fucking asshole!" Nathan blinked at me in astonishment.

"I'm so sorry Zoey," I was about to ask him what was he sorry for when he put both hands around my cheek pulling me to him and kissed me. I open my eyes wide first and as an instinct closed my lips tight, Nathan kept a hold of my face and licked my lips asking for entrance.

My lips parted automatically without my authorization.  As his tongue made his way inside my mouth a soft moan escape my lips. Nathan moved ever so slightly and in seconds I was on his lap putting my hands around his neck to pull him even closer to me.  Nathan and I share plenty of kisses before... But this was our first kiss, I could taste a type of foreign vodka in his saliva and it was intoxicating to me. The kiss started soft, then changed into a fiery and passionate kiss. Nathan's hand worked the way around my body turning me on. Nathan gently lay me back on the bed as he stay's on top of me without putting any weight on me. Nathan's hands venture over my body exploring, puckering.

He stepped back and looked down at me with a questioning look. That's when I saw it in his eyes. Regret... Regret for the way he acted a few seconds ago... He was asking me with his eyes if we could take this further. I stare back drowning in his beautiful blue eyes wondering if I should... If we should... A smile slowly started appearing on my face and I nodded. Nathan returns the smile with a warm smile of his own, the one he rarely showed me, the smile I like. He leaned down towards me ever so slowly and spread my legs skillfully and accommodated himself in between my legs.

Mine legs wrapped around his waist automatically as if this was meant to be... We were two pieces of a puzzle that fit together perfectly. The tip went inside... This is actually happening, Nathan and I are going to have sex...