The Traps of Black Swan

'Walking out of the closet?' She doesn't even know if she could do it. "Stop wasting your time on me." Aarvi gave up struggling in his embrace.

"I am willing to spend each second of my life with you." Aaron knew it's difficult for her to accept all these hence he had planned to wait. Since it's already out, he will answer her every confusion, thoughts, troubles.

Aarvi's head started throbbing without knowing how to send him away. "I am not Ava Kelly. You know me well that I am going to ruin Harmons."

Aaron relaxedly offered, "Do you want my help? We can play them like prey in the lion's den."

Aarvi really wanted facepalm herself, she didn't want to pull anybody to her darkness, "I meant I am scheming, cruel, crafty. I am not the one to be kept around. You will never know how I will deceit you."

Aarvi in his embrace, Aaron hummed with his eyes closed, "I will look forward to the days we will be together."

Aarvi's lips twitched uncontrollably and lifted her head to see his peaceful charming face. She wasn't a shorty, her forehead reached right at his chin. She saw him enjoying the moment instead of worried or sad or afraid.

"You-"

He kissed her forehead fondly and responded to what she wanted to ask, "I know."

Aarvi blushed and tried to get away from him. She couldn't understand how easily he read her without a word extra. It was like he even knows her silence.

Aaron didn't let her leave instead he held her tighter, "Ava Kelly or Aarvi Evans, your first reaction for the unexpected intrusion of personal space is to slap or kick." She didn't do anything when he kissed her.

"I had realized your changes when I brought you here from the villa due to the rain. It confirmed to me when you reached my office and desperately tried to know why you were missing me. But I didn't expect you to realize or even know you missed me. Oh yeah. I missed you too."

Aarvi hastily stated, "You are reading too much into it. I don't love you."

Aaron accepted, "I agree but are you sure?" He knows her from nine years before and how everyone treated her. It was only when she moved to country U, she got to make real friends and be her and do what she liked. So she is used to his presence around her and that is not 'Love'.

"What do you mean?"

Aaron asked earnestly, "Are you sure your like is just an attachment but not love?"

Aarvi retorted back rightfully to stop him, "How are you sure that it's not just an attraction?"

He smirked hearing her. Scooping her in his arms, he went downstairs unhurriedly.

'Why am I not surprised? Or scared?' Aarvi thought to herself in his arms, looking at his side profile.

He responded to her question, "You clearly know what is an attraction."

Thinking about attraction, "I have a boyfriend. You should move on." Aarvi said in a breath hoping he will be shocked.

Aaron left her on the island counter of the kitchen and tapped her nose, "Sean Harmon isn't your boyfriend." He might not exactly know what she is planning but he could say what she is doing every day.

Aarvi rolled her eyes. Even if Sean Harmon is the only person left in the world for her, she wouldn't let him touch her pinky. She started giving her reasoning as he prepared coffee for both knowing their night was going to be very long to sort out her feelings.

"I love the way you take care of me and how you make me feel treasured. That's an attachment."

As Ava Kelly or Aarvi Evans, she is always open to him without her knowledge and he just loves how she accepts the actuality. "You feel at home next to me." Aaron gave his point and received no counter-attack to it.

"You make me feel special and I like your attention and care. That's self-centered. It can't be love."

"Coming to what you said self-center, you were never desperate to get my attention, you never demanded anything." He turned around and added, "Of course, living separately is excluded."

Aarvi pouted in annoyance. What he said was cent percent right. "I never remember you whenever I hear love songs or hear about any relationships."

Aaron had filled coffee beans and water in the coffee maker then kept milk for boiling. He went to her and pointed at her heart, "You have filled here with junk, push them to the brain and let me take some space. You will remember me all the time."

"You are cheesier than that brainless man." Aarvi blurted before she could realize.

Instead of embarrassment, he crossed his arms in front of his chest and hummed. Aarvi saw him stand dignifiedly with a lot of confidence so she waited for him to speak, "Because I love you more than him."

Aarvi: "..."

This side of Aaron was completely new to her and leaves her speechless. Hearing him say 'I love you' so easily when she hadn't even accepted, she again kept her hand on the chest but smiled before checking it, "You are blushing."

He turned away and went to the coffee maker hearing her chuckle. She was still smiling when he turned and said, "You will be happy and calm around me without a reason."

She wasn't sure if she would be happy but she would be calm.

He took her in front of the ventless electric fireplace and handed her a cup of coffee as he heard, "I was never possessive of you being around with others."

Aaron rubbed her head, "Possessiveness is an attachment."

Aarvi flung his hand seeing his teasing smirk for telling his point, "But all say it is common in love."

"Because they are insecure." Aaron cleared her doubt and both continued to give their points and counters until Aarvi dozed off thinking about a point.

None won or lost in their discourse. They just spoke what they thought, what was in their mind and heart. Aaron knows she needs a lot of time to accept him or fall in love but he was glad at the state they were in.

They didn't squabble, they didn't ignore, they tried to accept the reality and truth of each other. He knows he is in love with the girl who is smart, mature, and shrewd but the only thing he doesn't want to hear is 'Moving out'.

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Waking up in the party gown, Aarvi remembered that she had dozed on the couch. After her yoga, she normally entered the pool and she was leaving, Aaron blocked her, "I want to tell you something."

Aarvi knows now he is Aaron who loves her. Not Aaron Rivas who is a doctor and takes care of her. She wasn't used to his sudden change to the causal way of talking. She spoke calmly as she always used to, "We will talk at the breakfast table."

Aaron didn't leave her, "No, now!"

Aarvi rubbed between her brows saying, "Could you please be the reserved Doctor Rivas?"

Aaron's brows raised then he slightly hummed and his unemotional voice was back with his aloof, hard to read enticing face, "I have something important to inform, have a seat."

Aarvi: "..."

She understood the difference. Aaron asks her first to tell and Doctor Rivas doesn't order but makes it sound like there is really critical information that needs her attention.

Aarvi looked away from him to control her expression and bit her lips to avoid smiling.

'Amusing...'