Taken By The Mafia Lord

"Do you even know how to cook?" The question slipped out of his mouth and Elijah regretted them at the last minute.

Adele glared at him so intensely that if eyes were bullets, no, he was simply thankful she didn't pull out her gun - he knew she had it on her somewhere. No Luciano goes out without defense.

"I know what I'm doing," Adele glared at him, yet was going through the recipe on her phone, brows drawn together in concentration. She had never cooked in her entire life, but a pancake shouldn't be too hard to cook, right?

"You're not doing it right," Elijah sighed when he couldn't just look on anymore.

"Heat over low-medium heat," He walked up to her from behind, and then through the space on her sides, he adjusted the gas heat.

At that action, Adele glanced up at him while he continued saying, " Any further than that and your pancake would burn before it's done, " Elijah taught her without noticing how absorbed she was in staring at him.

He then looked down and was quite startled at how close they were. She unconsciously licked her lower lips and his gaze flickered down to that action. Elijah realized that all he needed to do was to tilt his head and he could freely claim her lips.

And Elijah was not going to lie, his heart did skip a beat and Adele was quite an attractive woman. However, his heart belonged to Arianna and no one else. Hence, he was already prepared to move away when something dropped loudly.

Oh no.

He looked at Adele, and the look in her eyes told him that she heard that as well. Elijah gulped, still standing at that point when Adele turned and tried to look over his shoulder, a furrow on her face, "I doubt that you have someone in here with us, but just asking, you heard that, right?"

"No," Elijah answered too quickly, arousing more suspicion. Damn, he had to think fast. Jason can't be caught here else his identity as Elijah was as good as revealed.

"What? No?" Adele doubted that, "But I heard -" She tried to move away from him but Elijah instead clasped her cheek with his hand.

Adele was startled, taking one step back. She was not used to having people touch her face, especially men, and the touch must have fumbled with her brain because it made her sluggish to react.

"W-what…?" She blinked in confusion. What was going on here?

And then without warning, Aziz's lips were on her. The force knocked the breath out of her lungs and she still had her eyes open even when his lips moved against hers. Did she forget to mention that this was her first kiss?

Adele had been so busy making a name in the family business that she had no time for dating or petty emotion - as she called them. They made one weak. Moreover, having been labeled an illegitimate daughter all through her life, all it did was douse any desire she felt for the opposite sex or so she thought because there was fluttering in her stomach as Aziz kissed her.

Blood rushed to her head and Adele didn't even know how or when it happened, but the instant he pulled away for air, she pushed Aziz up against the cupboard and kissed him aggressively.

Like a bird set free, it seems whatever chains that were holding Adele back from acting upon her desires were finally broken and she took it all out on Aziz who unlocked the feelings in the first place.

She kissed him harder, her hand fisting in his shirt and pulling him closer than he already was. Adele just had the first taste of pleasure and wanted more of it.

The kiss was merely a distraction or so Elijah intended it to be. But that wasn't the case anyway, obviously. Honestly, Elijah didn't mean to take things this far, he had planned to laugh the kiss off as some mistake, and then she would concentrate on her pancake, forgetting all about the noise from earlier.

And speaking about pancakes.

Elijah tried to speak against her lips, informing her that she had a mere pan on the heat and had gotten too distracted, but Adele was a lost cause. She had gotten too swept up in the feeling and forgotten that she had only an oily pan on fire.

Almost immediately, the pan went up in flames and both of them broke apart. While Adele squealed and went in search of the fire extinguisher that was strapped on the far end of the wall, Elijah simply rushed over and turned off the heat source. As soon as he was done, Adele sprayed the fire with a dry chemical fire extinguisher causing a nasty smoke to saturate the kitchen.

While Adele was still coughing and trying to wave the smoke away, Elijah, out of the corner of his eyes, saw Jason trying to sneak out and he gave him the signal while Adele was still distracted - and the smoke provided a good cover.

He must have been trying to escape earlier when he pushed something down. However, he was finally able to escape.

This is a disaster, Adele thought as she stared at the mess in the kitchen. This is why emotions are dangerous, they make one get carried away until they make a deadly mistake that costs them - or the enemy sneaks in.

She can't afford to make mistakes now especially when she hadn't caught Elijah. The man could be anywhere and she had gotten Aziz in danger the first time because of her carelessness. She can't get him in harm's way again, which means they can't get involved in the way he wanted them to.

Hence, when the smoke eventually cleared, she turned to Aziz, "About that kiss -"

"Don't worry, it was a mere mistake. I can assure you that it won't happen again," He told her with every conviction in him.

Adele blinked, taken aback by his seriousness. Nothing could come out of it, but for him to call the kiss a mere mistake sounded quite harsh - he was even the one who first kissed her. Or was the kiss not worth his taste? She wasn't exactly an expert at it seeing that it was her first time. Nonetheless, she pushed the emotion to the back of her mind.

It would never happen again.