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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 my nervousness and

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

he seemed to slip in some other world and mull over about

many friends as far as I gathered, he liked to keep to

ruthless to the rogues and his

never thought of him to be anything but a growling, angry man hulk so seeing him talk about his people with care

if we talk about colors, what color co–ordination

in his hand and answered, “I

at him.

to somebody’s funeral,

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

the pen on my chin and muttered, “softer shades

be nice.”

Chapter 23

me when I said pink was almost as if I had asked him to strip

by the way, was not too bad

my head as he muttered,

is a ball…a mating ball for Goddess sake,

love.”

pen and

You believe

by his stare. “Of

mates.”

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

appalled at this guy. He was making fun of the moon Goddess, a deity we

somebody does not mean the world is devoid of it. It

fingers curled around the pen and I kept clicking it anxiously. He noticed

love someone? What makes you so

gaze held me in place. I felt transfixed as his golden eyes

and felt queasy and felt my hands

‘don’t…just because you don’t love

his chair and walked past the large

of me.

chair and him standing in front of me, it felt as if

hands on the armrests

at eye–level with me and I gulped

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

suddenly itched to brush the pad

He breathed and I blinked furiously.

mind and told me no, he

ask him what he meant and blabbered something sheepishly, he

someone‘ not

I saw his expressions and the way he looked at me expectantly, waiting

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