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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.

me calm down

about his choices and preferences, likes and dislikes and he answered me without looking

seemed to slip in some other

not have many friends as far as I gathered, he liked to keep to himself but adored

wealthy, extremely wealthy and was a self–made man. King Callahan was as ruthless to the

hulk so seeing

now if we talk about colors, what color co–ordination or themes would you want for the event?”

pen in his hand and

blinked at him.

not going to somebody’s funeral, you know.”

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

tapped the end of the pen on my chin and muttered, “softer shades of pink and white

be nice.”

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was almost as if I had asked him

too bad at all as an alternative.

shook my head as he muttered, “Pink?”

course, pink. It is a ball…a mating ball for Goddess sake,

love.”

his pen and

believe in that?”

“Of course I do. Why else would the moon Goddess

mates.”

maybe she is running a marriage

fun of the moon Goddess, a deity we

because you can’t love somebody does not mean the world is devoid of it. It is like saying the world does not need chocolates because

I kept clicking it anxiously. He noticed my furstrtiaon but still

can’t love someone? What makes you

place. I

felt queasy and felt my hands suddenly grow clammy.

‘don’t…just because you don’t love

not buying it. He got up from his chair and walked past the large desk to come and directly stand

of me.

already quite tall so with me seated on the chair and him standing in front of me, it felt as if I was gazing at the tip of a large

and placed his hands on the armrests of the

with me and I

a fierce predator who was mesmerizing

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

and I blinked furiously.

he just read my mind and told me no, he can’t allow me to touch his

what he meant and blabbered something

not ‘you don’t love someone…why is that?”

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

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