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"Nothing." James put his lips on her cheek to leave a kiss and murmured, "Just open the door. I am going out."
Kara's eyebrows scrunched up in confusion at his words, "How?"
"The same way that I came here." he pulled back and grinned at her, "from the balcony."
Kara's eyes widened in surprise. He came close to her face with a small smile on his face and continued, "I am not going to tolerate any bad mouthing against my Kara, after all."
Kara looked in his eyes and saw the sincere love they held for her. Unable to meet his gaze, she turned her face away to the side. James came closer and kissed her cheek lightly, making her close her eyes at the softness of his lips.
"Open the door." he whispered, "I am going out."
Kara nodded her head and went to unlock the door. By the time the door opened, James had already left through the balcony.
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Dressed up in a yellow, knee length dress, Kara walked down the stairs and saw Damon sitting on the couch discussing something with Laura, his grandma. James was also there, looking over something on his tab. She gave Laura, and Damon a sweet smile before coming to sit beside Damon.
"Kara, Damon is saying that you need to go out with him today." Laura said with a smile, "Some of your friends are throwing you a party for your marriage fixing celebration. You should go with Damon, and also invite them personally to your engagement personally."
Kara's eyes turned to Damon with blank expressions. James was silently stealing glances at them over the tab in his hands, and by the expressions on Kara's face he could tell she was not happy at all.
Laura, oblivious to Kara's mood continued, "it is a good thing they are happy to have you back. Your friends are throwing you a part so you and Damon definitely need to go there."
Kara looked at Damon with clear frustration. Damon dipped his head and looked away. He knew the reason for her anger.
"Grandma..." she said in a low tone, "can't we invite them over phone?"
Laura looked at her with surprise, "of course not, honey. They are throwing a party for you. How can you not go there? And while you are there, just hand them the invitation cards. And James will also go with you tonight."
James' eyes shot to Laura's in shock. Her pleading eyes softened him and he gave her a small smile, assuring her that he will go with them.
Kara nodded her head, stood up, and left the hall while giving an angry glare to Damon.
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"Kara! At least listen to me once." Damon tried to stop Kara but she entered her room angrily and was going to slam the door shut when he marched in, forcing her to back down, "just listen to what I have to say."
"What do you want me to listen to, Damon?" she shouted in anger, "you know that I don't want to go meet the so called friends in this city. You know that I hate going to parties and especially now... when I don't even know how many of them are already sitting there to make fun of me." she took a long, deep breath in frustration.
James was passing by her room when he stopped after hearing her angry rant.
"We need to go there. You need to get out of this shell, Kara. You are young and pretty and everything else that you were even when you had left. There is nothing out there to be afraid of."
"But I don't want to go out! I hate everything that is outside. I don't even understand why you are so hell bent on making me go out of house. Even when I was abroad, you kept pestering me to go out, have fun and crap. What the hell is wrong with wanting to stay in my own f*****g room."
Damon put his hand on her arm in a gentle hold, "I know that but... I am just asking you to go out with me, just take this party as a date, alright? I promise we will leave whenever you want to."
Kara tried to cool her temper but couldn't. Her hand slammed over the lamp sitting on the side table, making it fall down with a clash.
Damon did not react or say anything. As some moments passed by, he took steps closer to her and took her in his arms, hugging her as his hand rested on her head. He kissed her head softly and whispered, "I am sorry I did not ask you about it before. I will try to be more considerate next time."
Kara put her palm on her eyes to stop the tears that threatened to fall at his words. She did not get angry often, but when she did, it was always hard for her to control it.
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Kara got ready in a pretty dark blue cocktail dress that reached her upper thighs and had a small slit over one leg, and one shoulder bare while the other one held the dress with one, delicate strip. She wore black stilettos in her feet and Her hair fell over her shoulders in open waves. She usually did not wear dresses this short but she did not know what came over her. The thought of James coming along was already agonizing. And at that thought, she chose this dress, knowing he did not like when she wore so much revealing dresses. The thought of seeing anger on his face the whole night was just too sweet to let pass.
As the clock struck eight, she walked out of the room and went downstairs and collided with Laura who almost did a double take upon seeing her.
"You look kinda... sexy." the elder lady said so sweetly, it brought a laugh on Kara's lips. Although Laura was almost eighty years old, she lived more modern life than Kara had seen anybody of her age live. Her dressing style and attitude was awesome, and sweet as hell at the same time.
Kara giggled, "I will take that as a compliment, grandma."
Laura smiled and put her hand on Kara's cheek, "have fun there. And be safe."
Kara nodded her head in acceptance, noticing the presence of the two males who had just entered the hall.
Damon was wearing a black jacket, with casual white t shirt and jeans while James wore a coat with sleeves rolled up to the elbow with a t-shirt and black jeans.
Kara deliberately avoided looking at James. Although she had been confident while wearing this dress, now she was just plain old freaking the hell out of her mind while thinking about the look James might be having right now.
"Kara, have as much fun tonight as you want," Laura said while grinning wickedly at Damon, "this might be your last night as a single, after all before you get tied to Damon."
"Grandma..." Damon walked forward and put his hands on Kara's ears, giving a fake glare to Laura, "don't ruin my innocent Kara's brain cells. I don't want her to flirt with boys in front of my eyes when I stand on the side looking like a lost puppy."
Kara grinned at his words and pulled his hands off her ears, "Alright. I will try to not follow grandma's advice ONLY whenever you are not around me tonight."
Damon hugged her from behind completely, "I am sticking like a glue to you tonight, princess."
Laura and Kara both laughed at his words. And while laughing, unknowingly Kara's gaze suddenly collided with James'. He was looking at her intently, and once meeting his eyes, it was hard for Kara to move her gaze. She did not want him to know that she was deliberately avoiding him. So she gave a small smile to him, which he definitely did not respond to. His face remained serious while he stared in her eyes, and then his eyes fell upon Damon's hold on her shoulders and neck, right before he turned his face away, his lips twisting like there was a very foul taste of something in his mouth.
"Let's go." he announced and walked out of the hall to hide the burning tension crawling over his skin like fire.
Damon let Kara go and urgently said, "s**t. I forgot to bring my things from room. Go to the car. I will be there in five."
Kara nodded her head and followed James. He came out of the hall and went to the stairs taking them a floor to the wide garage where all of the cars owned by them stood. The door behind her shut with a loud thud as she tried to catch up with James' fast steps down the stairs.
She had just taken the last step down when a sudden jerk on her arm made her breath get stuck in her throat and her eyes fell shut in fear. But instead of falling she found herself plastered against the wall with James' body keeping hers captive by one of his hand in her waist while the other keeping her writs held tightly against the wall.
"So I don't have much time, huh?"
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