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Chapter 23

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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 my nervousness and

asked him various questions about his choices

to slip in some other world and mull over about something.

chatted for a while as I got to know more about him. King Callahan did not have many friends as far as I gathered, he liked to keep to himself but adored

man. King Callahan was as ruthless to

to be anything but a growling, angry man hulk so seeing him talk about his people with

what color co–ordination

and answered, “I am

at

are not going to somebody’s funeral, you

gave me a look and asked, “Well then you tell

on my chin and muttered, “softer

be

Chapter 23

look he gave me when I said pink was almost as if I had asked him to strip for

was not too bad at all as an

shook my head as he muttered,

and said, “Of course, pink. It is a ball…a mating ball for Goddess sake, pink and red are

love.”

twirling his pen and

You believe

stare. “Of course I

mates.”

replied, “I am not sure, maybe she is running a marriage bureau or

was making fun of the moon Goddess, a deity we

mean the world is devoid of it. It is

the pen and I kept clicking it anxiously. He noticed my furstrtiaon

someone? What makes you so sure

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

and felt queasy and felt

you don’t love someone does not

Callahan was not buying it. He got up from his chair and walked past

of me.

in front of me, it felt as if I was gazing at the tip of a large

slowly lowered his head, and placed his hands on the

with me

both handsome and deadly, a fierce predator who was mesmerizing to look at

his jaw and my hand suddenly itched to brush the pad of my finger

and

no, he can’t allow me to touch his

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

someone‘ not

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

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