Suddenly, she released her grip on my hand. I looked up at her face and saw her smirking at me but what shocked me to my core was, I saw realization on her face. My heart was beating so fast and everyone in the room looked at me as if they could hear my heartbeat.
"Are you guys okay?" Jedrick broke the ice between us with a frown.
"Yeah, we are absolutely okay," Helena responded to him with a sly smirk. I was anxious and jumpy throughout our dinner. I kept on messing with my food without touching it.
Jedrick sat on the head chair while I occupied his right side and Helana on his left side. Cerberus sat near my foot and ate his food, happily without a care in this world.
"Mr. Sandros, what's wrong? You haven't touched your food." Jedrick whispered only for me to hear but I knew Helena heard him too.
"I-I am not hungry," I told him and looked at Helena. She was looking at me and her cat-like eyes were observing my every move. I diverted my widened eyes to my plate with anticipation. My stomach twisted with discomfort and I felt like I want to puke my gut out.
Suddenly something rubbed against my leg and I looked down to see Cerberus trying to gain my attention. I relaxed a little and scratched behind his ear. He howled with joy and waggled his tail, lying beside my foot.
"Interesting, seems like Cerberus has abandoned you," Helena stated with a smug look on her face. Jedrick scowled at her and muttered something under his breath in an unknown language. Probably, it was Romanian.
"He is not friendly with others, not even to us, but the way he is behaving with him is odd," Helena said something to Jedrick in the Romanian language. I looked at them like a dumb. I couldn't understand a single word.
"Yeah, it is too odd, he seems to like him and not to mention my secretary is a mortal for hell's sake and Cerberus loathes humans or any mortals for a fact," Jedrick replied to her in Romanian.
I excused myself and walked to the living room. Cerberus followed me like a puppy, wagging his tail. He may look so ferocious but he sure behaves like a puppy with me. I examined the things in his living room while they all conversed in Romanian and Cerberus accompanied me like a sweetheart.
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Rehor Jedrick' Pov~
Sandros excused himself and my hellhound accompanied him like a lost puppy. He was behaving like a golden retriever for sin's sake. I couldn't believe that he was behaving like a lost puppy with my secretary.
Latter on the plane, I almost showed, Sandros my real face. I could feel myself transform out of anger and thank my father, he fainted before I could fully expose myself in front of him. He behaved like a toddler throwing tantrums at me. He looked so jumpy and nervous back then.
When he told me that his sister liked me, I was in seventh heaven. I really liked her sister even though I just met her once, in fact twice, I saved her life, the first time I encountered her. There was something in her that was calling for my soul.
I was completely whipped by her and this newfound feeling was driving me insane. Was it possible that I fell for her at the first sight?
Ancient people would create many stories regarding my life that was how mythology was formed. I had no wife, in fact, I had no women in my life, but the story of Persephone always caught my attention.
I was happy that she thinks fondly of me. I looked at Sandros and Cerberus exploring things in my living room.
"He is totally smitten by him," Victor remarked with amusement.
"Maybe, it's an HER, who knows." Helena shrugs casually. Her remark grabbed everyone's attention. I paused on my mid-bite and dropped my spoon on my plate making it clatter against it. I was frozen to my spot not expecting the turn of their conversation.
There was something, beating against my ribcage painfully. I touched the place and it was my heart. I never felt my heart race like this. Was this how it feels to be anxious? I always hear Sandros's heartbeat whenever he was nervous or happy but was an immortal supposed to have these feelings?
"What?!" Victor and Skull yelled in unison looking at her with wide eyes. She rolled her eyes at them and took a bite of her chicken as if she didn't drop a bomb on us.
"You know something, don't you?" Grudgecous asked her with a smirk. The entire time I didn't say anything. I was too shocked to say something. I had always had this doubt of his gender for a long time. That was why I asked Helios to enquire about the Sandros siblings.
Was I correct the entire time? I thought to myself.
"I couldn't believe that you could be this dumb Hades, look at her, your Mr. Sandros is in fact a Ms. Sandros. I can bet on my boobs that he is a full-grown woman disguised as a male." She scolded me and bared her teeth at me like an animal. I snapped out of my shock and focused my gaze on Sandros who was talking with Cerberus and goofing with him.
"Are. You. Sure." I gritted out every word with rage. I fisted my hand and I could feel my eyes turning dark. If he betrayed me, I would bring hell upon him and I wouldn't be kind to betrayers and backstabbers.
"I am!" she told us with confidence. At that moment my phone rang and it was Helios.
"My lord, my apologies for disturbing you but the matter is really important." Came his wavering voice.
"Out with it!" I growled at him.
"About the details you wanted about the Sandros's siblings, I got something about Adeline. She is a journalist at the World Premier newsstation and she is working on exposing your mafia life to the public and…err" I know what was coming even before he revealed everything and a part of me were turning gooey but the rage in me had tuned that feeling down.
"Spit it out already!" I roared with fury.
"And there is no Reynold Sandros, in fact, he doesn't exist at all. Adeline is the one who is disguised as your personal secretary to expose you. Your personal secretary is a woman… and there is more to it. I have mailed you the details. Seems like, she is being manipulated by her boss." I ended the call and clutched the device in my strong fist. The device shattered out of force and I was heaving with anger and looked at the figure that made me look like a fool in front of my devils.
Adeline…Wait, till you face what I had planned for you and the future of your boss is going to be much worse than your fate.
"Helena! Check the mail that Helios has sent me now. I need to take care of a little mouse. You three help her!" I ordered them and made long strides to where Adeline was playing with my hellhound.
She was giggling and when I looked closer, she does resemble a woman, her voice, her behavior, everything resembled a woman.
She was wearing her striped pajamas and I could see the outline of her feminine curves. She looked delicate like a little dove. She gets hurt so easily because of her soft and smooth skin.
How could I be so stupid? The way my body reacted when every time she was closer to me and the way I got hard when every time she touched me, I should have known. I grabbed her by her shoulder and turned her to me. She yelped at my sudden intrusion and looked up at my face with wide eyes.
Fuck!
I was breathing hard and I felt like something was tickling my stomach and I could feel my heart race at her innocent eyes. Her face was blemish-free and her eyes were aqua blue and it looked pure.
I could say that she was not a bad person and she didn't commit any sins just by looking at her face. Maybe she had committed some mistakes in her life but nothing big.
I gulped at the sight of her. Was it possible for me to get tempted? She makes me wanted to do sinful things to her.
"Jesus! You scared me, sir!" she exclaimed and clutched onto her chest. She took a deep breath and looked at me.
"Are you okay, you are sweating and you look like you are in pain." She stated and came closer to me. She stood up on her tippy toes and touched my forehead with the back of her palm. Her skin was cold against my burning skin and it felt nice.