His hold on me was unrelenting and in a defeated tone I asked, "What do you want? I apologized for letting my temper act out. Now please let me go!"
I really wasn't expecting it, but his hands released me. I made to step back, but his fingers curled over the neckline of my shirt and tugged me forward.
"Let go!" I responded hotly.
"I will, after……."
"After what?" I asked breathlessly.
"After you kiss me."
I swallowed nervously before responding, "I don't have to do that! I……"
"Yes, you do." He said cutting me off midsentence.
"Why? Who made you my boss?" I asked.
"It would seem that the simple joined task of mutual survival has seen to that and aren't you forgetting that you said as much. Now I want you to kiss me."
I started to speak, but his fingers touched my lips halting my words.
"Stop thinking so much. We both know that you made a choice. You willingly chose to stick with me just as I chose to come back and pull your butt out of the fire. Now let's get this thing between us started off good and proper, because I don't want it all to be one sided between us."
He had me alone in the dark and I was chained by his words as much as his hands had just been upon me. He was right, I had made a choice. The choice that I'd known to make ever since the plane.
I was with him in this dark place of my own volition, but it was frustrating to have it turned against me. I hadn't been expecting this!
I'd been expecting to be pressed up against a dark cave wall and have his kisses forced on me even though I was receptive to them, but instead he was insisting that I kiss him! Arrogant man!
"But I'm angry with you!" I said grasping at straws.
"Anger is a strong emotion. I'd like to taste it off your lips."
My hand itched to slap him. The fingers holding my shirt were persistent in their hold on me, which kept me from leaving the engagement.
"I hate you!"
"Another strong emotion. You know what they say though. The closest emotion to hate is love."
My hands swung, but I came up with empty air as instead my hand was captured at the wrist and a kiss pressed against the back of my knuckles.
"I'd rather kiss a pig than you!"
There was a loud sigh in the darkness, "Very well then. Consider our relationship over. You're free to make your own way."