His Deceit(The beauty & the possessive series 1)(Completed)

chapter 16

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STEPHEN's POV

I couldn't help but to stare at Kelly who was sitting right in front of me. We're currently sitting on the floor while busy playing cards. I didn't know what to think about the big changed in Kelly's behavior since after that incident in her room earlier today.

When we were at the restaurant while eating dinner, she suddenly suggested for us to have a truce to enjoy our vacation in Hawaii. I agreed.

She'd been awfully cheerful since a while ago and looked like she was having fun defeating me. I couldn't concentrate of playing because I couldn't help but to get mesmerized by her laugh and smiles. She looked so enchanting.

It has been so long since I last saw her smile and laugh like this and it felt great.

After we had our dinner at the nearby restaurant, we decided to go back to the beach house right away because the weather wasn't good and it looked like it was about to rain.

When we arrived home, she suddenly asked me to play cards with her. Of course, I got surprised because she was smiling sweetly as she asked me to play with her.

"5-O! Oh, my gosh! I didn't know that you're such a loser in this kind of game" she said while laughing at me. Damn! This was the reason why I couldn't even win! Her cheerful face was distracting the hell out of me!

"Well, I didn't expect you love playing games like this" I said with a smile. Everything between us suddenly became lighter and brighter.

"Well, you still have a lot of things that you don't know about me and I am the same when it comes to you. We only had a three-month span of relationship before. It was just short so we didn't really have enough time to know each other that well" she answered nonchalantly as she pushed the cards towards me. I gathered the cards and then reshuffled them.

I was about to distribute again when she stopped me.

"Wait. Why don't we change the rules of the game?" my eyebrows creased as my hand stopped in mid-air.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, how about this. Whoever wins get the chance to ask question to the loser and the loser is obligated to answer truthfully whatever the question is. What do you think?" I stared at her intently. What is she planning? Why's she all of a sudden acting weird like this? Well...

"Game!" I answered, agreeing to her. Her face brightened up but I saw something that passed through her eyes that I couldn't pinpoint. What are you up to, xuxu?

We decided to play old maid this time even though there's only two of us playing. I distributed the cards and then after that, we began playing.

I couldn't help but to smile inwardly when I saw my cards. There were just 3 odd ones and the rest were already paired. I put down the 2 of hearts that was one of the unpaired ones. Kelly didn't take it, instead, she drew a card from the stack of cards. We continued playing quietly and I could almost feel the air begin to thicken as the game approaches the ending.

It was Kelly's turn to draw a card from my cards and I was holding my breath as she picked from my two remaining cards. It was already obvious that the odd card was the A of hearts. I wanted to laugh when she got the A of hearts.

I saw the irritation on her face. She reshuffled her cards and then let me pick from hers. She was staring at me intently as I was trying to decide which one to draw. When I've made up my mind and picked one, a gasp came out of her lips and that's when I realized that I won.