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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.

was helping me calm down

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

time, 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

King Callahan was as ruthless to the rogues and his enemies. as he was kind to his

a growling, angry man hulk so seeing him talk

co–ordination

was twirling a pen in his hand and answered, “I am not sure. How

blinked at him.

not going to somebody’s funeral, you

look and asked, “Well then you tell me what you have in

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

be

Chapter 23

he gave me when I said pink was almost as if I had asked him

by the way, was not too bad

my head as

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

love.”

and gave me an

You believe in

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

mates.”

is running a marriage bureau or

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

is devoid of it. It is like saying

I kept clicking it anxiously.

What makes you so sure of that?”

nerves as his gaze held me in place. I

and felt my hands suddenly grow

don’t love someone does not mean nobody

up from his chair and walked

of me.

was 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

his hands on the armrests of

at eye–level with me and I gulped

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

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

breathed and I blinked

my mind and told me no, he can’t allow me to touch his face?

ask him what he meant and blabbered something sheepishly, he

love someone‘ not ‘you don’t love

breadth away from me. I gulped again as I saw his expressions and the way he

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