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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

various questions about his choices

seemed to slip in some other world

for a while as I got to know more about him. King Callahan did not have many friends as far as I

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

to be anything but a growling, angry man hulk so seeing

co–ordination or themes would you want for

a pen in his hand and

blinked at

going to somebody’s funeral, you

“Well then you tell me what

of the pen on my chin and muttered, “softer

would be

Chapter 23

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

too bad at all as an alternative.

head as he

ball…a

love.”

and gave me an

You believe in

I felt unnerved by his stare. “Of course I do. Why else

mates.”

not sure, maybe she is

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

devoid of it. It is like saying the world does not need chocolates because I

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

makes

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

and felt queasy and felt my hands suddenly grow clammy.

you don’t love someone does not mean

He got up from his chair and walked past

of me.

seated on the chair and him standing in front of me, it

and placed his hands on the armrests of the

brought his face at eye–level with me and I

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

and my hand suddenly itched to brush the pad of my finger against

breathed and I

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

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

someone‘ not ‘you don’t

a hair’s breadth away from me. I gulped again as I saw his expressions and

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