Chapter 99

Zenovia

Callahan’s shirt smelled divine. It still had his lingering scent, and I could still recall the way he had raked his my body when I was with him.

There was a definite joy in my body language as I climbed up the stairs, happily humming a tune to myself.

I had reached the floor when I heard a voice.

“Oh, you are back. I was wondering where you’were. I was looking for you….”

eyes

all over

I turned around to see Cynthia standing in front of me. She was wearing a long pencil skirt and red shirt and had a pen in one hand while a file in another.

She looked at me, and the smile almost disappeared from her face.

“Oh, hi there,” She said, and I waved at her, not wanting to talk.

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“Did you see the Lycan King?” She asked, while returning her attention back to the file. But then she abruptly looked at me again, as if noticing me for the first time.

Or the thing I was wearing. I believe she thought I was just wearing some oversized, baggy shirt or something, but then she peered intently at it.

“Yes, he just went to his room to freshen up maybe,” I answered her sweetly.

“Freshen up?” She asked and I could not help but feel smug about the way she raised an eyebrow. Her facial expressions changed so much that I could easily guess how she was trying to connect the dots.

I wished I had some mind reading power to look into her brain and see all her worries and insecurities laid bare.

I wished I could gloat about how Callahan had spent the night with me, kissing me and wanting me when she kept throwing herself at him and he never touched her.

“Yeah, the night was quite tiring,” I added with a smile, and I loved the way the color drained from her face.

She tried to keep a straight face, but I saw the way her fingers dug into the file, almost wanting to tear it out.

I would have loved tormenting her some more, but then a voice called out from behind me.

“Zee, where have you been?”

I turned around to see Elijah smiling at me. He had a bag slung over his shoulder and a tired face.

and dashed down the stairs.

should be asking you that question,” I said, and he pulled

was warm and inviting, and whenever I saw him, he

my

worries fade away.

if he carried his own sun

a hug and smiled radiantly

later,” He murmured as

nice to have him around again.

you even awake at this hour? Your training starts in 2 hours

me with furrowed eyebrows, and I flashed

said, and he kept looking

and I kept grinning at him.

I wanted to share my

eyes went wide, and he stared at

Zen. Did you

frantically and he let out a big laugh and

and jumped up and down with him. He grabbed me by the shoulders and turned us around

Zen. I knew it. I

started dancing like idiots on the floor. Hearing the commotion,

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up in his arms as he told everybody,

and clapping while Elijah turned us both around in

truly felt happy to see the tinge of respect in everybody’s eyes.

dared scorn me because I had been taken in by the

would take in as her mistress to provide him with pups. Humans would mostly be hunted or killed.

a way to weed out the weak links from

only been safe earlier because my father, as much as he despised me,

slave but he did not abandon me or sell me off…well…until Celeste showed up and filled his

proudly tell him that

would stand happily beside him and pull me into

you lost?” Elijah’s soft voice brought me out of my

had my hands placed on his shoulders and looked down

“N-nothing”

shook my head. And then another voice

going on here?”

first floor, just beside Cynthia. He had showered and changed and was wiping his hair with

watching what was going on with keen interest.

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