Chapter 13
verything about this man screamed wrong. I could smell him from across the table. The way his eyes watched me interestedly. The way he called me, like he had been making a lot of research about me.
But he wasn’t a lycan. He was a human.
My eyes drops to his extended hand and I took it.
The moment our hands made contact, I felt a rush of sparks coursing through my arm and down my body. It’s not the kind of spark your feel when you touch the person you’re in love with. It’s the time that instills fear in you when you’re doing what you’re not supposed to do.
I nodded slightly in acknowledgement before letting go of his hand.
“And this is Yuki Kim.” Mr Blogwood says as he points to the second person standing next to Miles Moretti.
My eyes moves over from Miles to see the man next to him. He was Asian, no doubt, owing to the general type of his eyes and the jet black color of his hair. He’s dressed in white suits, one hand deep inside his side pockets too, the other holding a glass of wine.
Yuki Kim has a poker look on his face and I couldn’t quite see through him.
“Mr Yuki Kim is the owner of the popular Quorange companies all over the world and he is our co host for this event,” Mr Blogwood told me “and Mr Miles Moretti here is the owner of the popular and biggest hospital, BROADWAY in China and London. He has been a good friend of mine.”
Miles‘ eyes kept staring into my soul, like I had some hidden words written on my body that only he could read.
“Nice to meet you, Cain Yuki Kim said with a long smile as he came forward with his hand stretched out to me. I shake his hand.
stay.”
“Mr Blogwood here has told us a lot about you before you arrived. “Yuki said.
“Yes,” Miles said “he told us about your plan to start a company here. Aerobatics he said.”
I nod. “Yes and thank you all. I have always wanted to start up a company of my own. And I finally found a reason to
“Is that reason her perhaps?” Miles asks as his eyes gastured past me. I followed his gaze to see Effie who is now walking away with some costume crew members.
How does she manage to have so much effect on me without even trying?
Yuki and Mr Blogwood chuckles lightly, but when I looked back at Miles, he didn’t seem to find anything amusing. He looked like he was pretty much interested in what I had to say to that. Too interested.
“I saw you watching her earlier, just before Mr Blogwood here hauled you over.” Miles adds.
He was watching me this entire time?
I interest him, and I found that wired. Him watching me before my coming over here simply explained why he looked at me with so much keen interest.
“Father.” Someone else speaks as they made their way past me to stand beside Miles Moretti.
I could recognize that voice from anywhere. And the awful scent? I missed none of it.
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1 looked up to look at the new man’s face. He looks younger than the rest of the men here. He looks to be my age, maybe older, maybe younger. His hair is obviously dyed blond, I can smell the dye even with all the other hair sprays on him.
He’s tall, a little bit shorter than me from my view.
He was the same man complementing Effie earlier.
My eyes narrows angrily at him, his eyes watching me interestedly. He gives me a sly smile as he stops next to me.
“Dad, who’s this?” He says annoyingly, his smile quickly turning into a smirk.
“this is Cain Malachi, Mr Blogwood’s business associate,” Miles Moretti introduces me “Cain, this is my son, Nathan. Nathan Moretti.”
I watched him closely, unwilling to go in for a handshake. He seemed to have the same debate going on his mind.
Then, his lips grew into a big grin and he points his hand out for me to shake.
I reluctantly shake his hand.
“Nice to meet you man!” He said boisterously. But his eyes just caught my attention. There was something about them. Something familiar, like I’d seen him before. But I couldn’t quite place it.
“Mr Malachi is setting up his company,” Miles announced “he’s working on aerobatics. Maybe you can pay him a visit sometimes.”
Nathan’s eyes which didn’t leave me for a second after I took his hand glistened under the light, his grin still unchanged. “That would be great.” He said. His eyes seemed to be searching mine for something unknown to me.
“If you don’t mind.” I said to them before turning around and walking away.
!
I walked back to Eli who seemed too relieved to have me back. He has a glass in his hand, sipping rum. He points a glass from his other hand to me.
“What’s with those dudes?” Eli says, his chin beckoning towards Miles and Yuki who are now walking towards the stage with Mr Blogwood.
Letting out a soft smile and taking the glass from him, I said “I have a bad feeling about the older man, Miles. There’s something off about him.”
“I think if you have to worry about someone, it should be Yuki Kim.” Eli said, his finger pointing towards the stage.
My eyes follow his pointed finger to see Yuki stepping onto the stage, a slow, uninterested smile crossing his lips as he takes the mic from the MC.
W
Minasan Konbanwa,” Yuk says in Japanese “good evening everyone.” He repeats in English.
“I am very delighted to be standing here with everyone today he says, his English breaking with his very deep Japanese accent. “Today, in collaboration with Blogwood, we decided to show you all the celebrity choice outfit‘ tonight. This dress is what we call ‘the winter‘ and it is going to be showcased by one of the most powerful woman across the continent”
His arm opening towards the darkly lit left hand side of the room, he said “please, welcome Genevieve Walker.”
(Song for the scene: Lana Del Rey -Summertime sadness)
The stage instantly goes dark, followed by the casting of red lights.
I heard my heart hammer inside my chest. I found myself holding my breath as the thought of seeing Effie walking out from behind that door hit me.
Chapter 13
This feeling felt too strange to me.
Two women walks out, and the room instantly went into an impossible quietness.
Then, just like that, I perceived the sweetest scent I’ve ever perceived. The same one I’d perceived that day five years ago.
A mixture of pure ice and…..
And there she was. Walking into the light.
Everything seemed to stop in that soft moment as her feet adorned in a beautiful red heels first appeared, before her body fully walked into the light.
Effie Owens, my mate.
Effie’s body is adorned in a beautiful dress. The dress is made in a way that it stands out firmly away from her body around the chest area, every piece down her legs from her stomach accentuating every curve. The dress is a combined color of navy blue, white and crystal blue. The pattern is created in a way that looks like a snowfall.
eyes.
A wide net hat is sitting firmly on her head, some piece of stone beads running down around the front, concealing her
Behind her were two other wornrri.
I lost my breath in that instant
Everybody in the room wees to have been hypnotized by her presence because the silence is impenetrable.
As she walks around the stage, her eyes catches hold of mine
I heard the gasp of surpose that lets her mouth at the sight me. And just like that, I found myself gazing into her eyes Into her soul
She doesn’t look away fostead she made a pose so she does have to move, her eyes fixed on mine.
Cameras started flashing from every angle.
Before the abrupt applaud from the tire room. Everything happened suddenly. The room is erupting in a fierce applause
Effie tears her gare from mine and moves over to Yuki who leans over to plant a firm kiss on her chin as a form of greeting exchange.
I’m tempted to reach over my heart, just to make sure it was still there and doing alright. Because I was struggling to breathe now.
I couldn’t look away from her.
Mr Blogwood goes on stage and starts addressing the crowd,
Effie is laughing and posing for the camera,
I wanted to do was to go up there and snatch her away take her back to my place and make love to her.
I didn’t know that I started walking through the crowd and towards bes
