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Chapter 23

Zenovia

Chapter 23

I gulped nervously as Callahan closed the door behind me. The door fell shut with a soft click and I could not help but suddenly realize that it was just us two in here.

“Take a seat” He pointed to one of the many chairs as he walked towards his desk.

I look around and found a notepad and pen lying on the desk. “May I?” I asked, and he nodded.

I took it, mostly to give my hands something to do than fidget nervously. I clicked the pen and asked,

“So, everybody tells me you do not love parties or fun. What type of event are you looking forward to in that case?” King Callahan pulled his big, plush chair and sat in it as I opened the notepad, waiting to scribble.

“I am not sure but something that makes everybody stop eating my head”

Okay, that was not the response I was expecting.

“Hmm, why do you hate socializing?” I asked, and he furrowed his eyebrows,

“I don’t hate socializing.”

I repeated. “I think you do”

Callahan placed his hands on the table and countered, “Did you not see the dozen or so people who were in a meeting with me?”

I shook my head as he mumbled, “Oh right, you did not. You were too busy dancing…in a towel.”

I looked away from him as I recalled the moment I had been doing my little happy dance and somehow ended

my stomach. on top of him. That memory was still enough to make butterflies riot in

I did not look up but merely threw in another question so that he would not elaborate on that towel dance again. “Either way, would you want the event to be held here or somewhere else?”

up naked

Callahan considered it, “Maybe, the front open grounds should be ideal. We can have it in the evening so not everybody is packed under the roof.”

I scribbled on my notepad – he hates partying.

I gave him a smile and looked up. “Great, anything that you absolutely don’t want to happen in the event. Like something you hate?”

Callahan scratched his chin, “Loud music. Please keep it soft”

I wrote down- he is boring.

helping me calm down

about his choices and preferences, likes and dislikes and

to slip in some other world and mull over

friends as far as I gathered, he liked to keep to himself but adored his beta,

was as ruthless to the rogues and his

be anything but a growling, angry man hulk so seeing him talk

if we talk about colors, what color co–ordination or

and answered, “I am not sure.

at

to

“Well then you tell me what you have in mind.”

my chin and muttered, “softer shades of pink and white along with some flowers

be

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when I said pink was almost as if I had asked

way, was not too

head as he muttered,

is a ball…a mating ball for Goddess sake, pink and red are the

love.”

his pen and gave

believe in

stare. “Of course I do. Why else would the

mates.”

replied, “I am not sure, maybe she is running a marriage bureau or something up in the clouds.”

was making fun of the moon Goddess, a deity we all

devoid of it.

the pen and I kept clicking it anxiously. He noticed my furstrtiaon but still continued,

can’t love someone? What makes you so sure

his gaze held me in place. I felt transfixed as his golden eyes stared straight at me, right into my soul.

and felt queasy and felt my hands

“I…I said ‘don’t…just because you don’t love someone

buying it. He got up from his chair and walked past the large

of me.

seated on the chair and him standing in front of me, it felt as if I

his head, and placed his hands on the armrests of the chair I had

eye–level with me and I gulped nervously.

who was mesmerizing to look at but also very dangerous

and my hand suddenly itched to brush the pad of

breathed and I blinked furiously.

mind and told me no, he can’t allow me to touch

would ask him what he meant and blabbered something sheepishly, he

‘you can’t love someone‘ not ‘you don’t love someone…why

me. I gulped again as I saw his expressions and the way he looked at me expectantly, waiting for an answer.

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