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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.

calm down my nervousness and

various questions about his choices and preferences, likes and dislikes and

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

know more about him. King Callahan did not have many friends as far as I gathered, he liked to keep to himself but

Callahan was as ruthless to the rogues and his enemies.

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

we talk about colors, what color co–ordination or

and answered, “I am

at him.

going to somebody’s funeral,

and asked, “Well then you tell me what

on my chin and muttered, “softer

be

Chapter 23

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

by the way, was not too bad at all

as he muttered, “Pink?”

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

love.”

and gave

believe in that?”

stare. “Of course I

mates.”

maybe she is running a marriage

guy. He was making fun of the

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

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

What makes you

a breath to calm my nerves as his gaze held me in place. I felt transfixed as his

shivered and felt queasy and felt my

don’t love someone does not mean nobody needs it…”

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

of me.

the chair and him standing in front of me, it felt as if I was gazing at

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

at eye–level with me and I gulped

lion to me, both handsome and deadly, a fierce predator who was mesmerizing to look at but also very

saw the light stubble on his jaw and my hand suddenly itched to

and I blinked

mind and told me no, he can’t allow

what he meant and blabbered

not

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

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