◇●Shades Of Onyx & Ruby●◇

◇●The Intimacy Test●◇

Questions aren't mine! I got them from a website, the answers and everything else is though:)

"Intimacy test" Zoya scoured over the words, her turquoise nails scraping the I as she huffed. This was not something she had any interest in and the last thing she wanted was to get closer to a man who had already riled her up.

"I guess this will be helpful when I finally get you into bed" his arms crossed over his chest, a salacious smile making dimples appear in his cheeks.

"Pfft, in your dreams" she turned over the page to scan the questions, ensuring to avoid eye contact with the man who was adamant on rubbing her up the wrong way.

"Dreams often become a reality if you work hard enough and as you can see" he flexed his muscles, "Hard work is something I know well".

Lifting her head slightly, she grinned "Really?" Her hand squeezed his arm, "I couldn't tell".

His smile dropped as hers widened "We all know you were just using that as an excuse to touch me up" needing to get the last word, he shot the first question at her before she could one-up him again, "If you could choose anyone in the world, living or dead, to have in our home as a dinner guest, who would you choose and why?"

"My parents" she mumbled, "You?"

"I'm sorry" Aditya bit his lip, it all made sense now, the darkness in her eyes and how she seemed so against joking around, if he was a better man he wouldn't push it, but it was clear she needed to let loose and who better than him to make that happen? "Abir, he's all I have".

His answer at least showed he had a heart, previous to that she was sure he didn't, though she'd never understand why Abir was his friend, she was happy he had someone, having no friends made for a lonely life and no one quite knew that better than her. Of course, she had Mishti, but whereas her younger sister never shied away from developing friendships, she'd always found it far more difficult than disabling a bomb for instance. "If you could choose the activities to do that would make a perfect day, what would you choose?"

"Sky diving, a swim in the ocean and lunch on the beach" he answered quickly.

"Never took you for the romantic type" Zoya's soft doe eyes rolled back.

"Never judge a book by its cover" he admonished, finger shaking playfully at her.

"Thanks, I'll remember that as the best advice I have ever been told" though she spoke sarcastically she couldn't help but wish more people would take his advice, she could count on two hands multiple times the amount of instances where people had made assumptions about her being cold and frigid just because she was serious most of the time, but in a job like hers having fun usually cost lives. "Just a relaxed day, some movies" she shrugged.

Aditya watched as her cheeks turned red, why she was embarrassed he didn't know, she ran R.U.B.Y and the work she'd done for victims was amazing, so it was understandable why she wanted to just chill, she deserved that. "If you had a crystal ball that could tell you anything at all about your life that you don’t already know, what would you ask it to tell you?"

"Uh you answer first" she didn't like this question at all, it opened up far too much, yes they needed to seem close, but this was private.

"Okayyy" he hummed. "I'd ask if it all ends happily" afterall, wasn't that all anyone could wish for?

At that her head shot up, her words barely audible even though the room echoed "I would ask the same" and just like that she began to see something a little different beneath the flirty facade he hid behind so well. "What's your favourite childhood memory?"