"I'll be back to Scotland by night and you will go with me. There is no cunty way in bloody hell I'm letting you stay in London when the cockroaches are still in the city. You will stay with me. Well, not with me, but with Cassie, I already told her earlier before I left Edinburgh in the morning, she's happy with it. Sera can be invasive and too damn curious for her own good, so, I'm not putting you with her."
"Oh my heavens, I'll pack my thing. I thought I would stay here."
"Of course, not, Jung-jin," I gasped. "You need me right now, I'll be at arm length of you, I want you where I can see you, make sure you're well, make sure you're safe, and make sure no one will be cunty enough to try lay a finger on you unless you allow them. Come on, you know me."
"Can… can you get some toys for Cerberus, noona? I don't want,"
"If you say you don't want to impose on me, I'll smack you when I get to you, Jung-jin," I snapped. "Have you seen how many digits I have in my bank account? Buy some things for that little hellhound of yours is nothing at all, of fucking course, I can do that. You are not a burden!"
He swallowed on the other side of the line, "You're the best."
That put a smug on me, "I know, I'm amazing. Now, pack."
"What about the carrot cake?"
"As if I would leave a carrot cake with dark chocolate filling as the one you made behind," I mocked. "Pack it and add two spoons, we'll eat it all on the jet," I looked over what I picked in my cart, "do you want some ice cream? I'm craving for ice cream."
"Ugh, I need ice cream! Can you get me a strawberry shortcake?"
"Strawberry shortcake ice cream," I made an invisible check, "got it, got it. Do I buy some yummy food for the little hellhound too? What kind of flavor does he like? Cow? Meat? Chicken? Fish? Do dogs even like to eat fish?" I frowned with the sudden question that popped into my mind and to my dismay, Wolf laughed at it, and I got suddenly conscious that he was listening to my talk with Jung-jin.
"Was that a male laugh? Are you with a guy?" He beamed.
I pressed my lips together, "Just someone I met in the market."
"Someone? A male someone?" Oh, God.
"Yes, a male someone, but eyes off," I groaned.
"Ouch. Does he has a gay friend?"
That made me bark a laughter, "How would I know that?"
"What is your friend asking?" Wolf asked me, looking amused.
Oh, heavens and hell. "He asked if you have a gay friend!"
"Noonaaaaaaa!"
"What?" I giggled. "You asked. What if he has?"
"And I do," he chuckled softly and I blinked surprised.
My top candidate for The Beast has a friend and gay at that? Now that is shocking! "He said he does. Even so, don't worry, Jung-jin, one of the dogs who are moving next to us is gay, and I think he could be single," I rolled my eyes. "I couldn't care less but if you want, you can ask Cassie, the dog she was drooling over yesterday was his friend. I only met three of the four dogs, the third one is not your type and I doubt he's gay, though he could be bisexual for all I know, that would make us even, as Sera is bi."
"And the fourth one?"
"No idea, his name is Achilleas something, I don't know. Haven't met the guy, only his sister who Sera's crushing over. You should have seen how much she annoyed me just to make me rent the vacant townhomes for them, all because of what? Pussy? Oh, come on. I doubt men are that hard-working for pussy like Sera is," I mocked. "She got laid three days ago, seriously. I definitely haven't seen her work that hard for a cock."
Jung-jin gasped, "Noona!"
"What? Oh, come on, you put more work for cock than my girl does. I mean, she's right, I don't do any work at all," I laughed, "but when it's about a pussy, she's all insane for it. Sure, the girl is pretty, very pretty indeed, if her brother is anything like her, men, he'll be a sight, but I bet Sera is just all that hot for her because she's our gynecologist. You know what I mean by that, the girl touched her well and now she's in heat."
A loud laugh came from my friend, "Oh, you're so cunty, noona."
"You haven't seen me being cunty yet, darling," I mocked. "Either way, just, ignore the girls if you want, or befriend them if you want to, the both of them are the best friends I ever had. I'll end here and go to you. The quicker I'm done with this, the quicker we'll be leaving for Scotland!"
"Okay, noona. I'll take a quick bath!"
"Use the lemon shampoo, the scent suits you the most," after I said that, I hung up the call and put my phone back in my handbag. When I met Wolf's gaze again, his lilac eyes had darkened watching me like a predator, which I know he is. "Sorry about that, he gets thirsty over boys."
"Don't you?"
"Not really," I scoffed. "I'm more… work driven," when he arched his straight black eyebrows, I rolled my shoulders. "I'm an architect."
"Oh? Is that why you have a place in Mayfair?"
Of course, he was paying attention to my call. If I'm right about the worst-case scenario, he would be stupid not to, "I have a company too."
"Oh? You're also a CEO?" Amusement bloomed in his eyes.
"Well, no, I'm the CFO, but I call the shots and I'm their bank, so, I'm the CEO and the COO's boss, and they are my childhood best friends. The two girls I mentioned in the call with my friend. Cassie is the COO and Sera is the CEO, I'm the best with numbers and I have the money, so, I act as CFO, I'm not sociable enough to be either CEO or COO!"
"I think that's even better," he hummed, "that you're good with the numbers, that's what I've always excelled at, numbers."
Putting his card in my handbag, I grabbed mine and handed to him, "Here, in case you need a new place in Scotland, I own the best ones, my parents were both from the field and I got all their properties after they… passed away," I swallowed, looking away from him for a second. "They would say I shouldn't be so hung up on their passing, since I was just a little baby when it happened and I have no memories of them, but that makes it worse in a way I can't even put into words."
"I know how you feel, Selene," his voice was a haunted whisper as he took my card from my fingers, his touching mine and sending the chills down my spine again, making me struggle to breathe. "I lost mine too."
Did he lose his parents? "You did?" My voice was a breath as I turned my eyes back to his, feeling something igniting inside of me.
"It was not the same as you, I was a teen when it happened, but it… left the kind of scar that doesn't go away," he put my card in his basket and came a step closer to me, the air condensing between us as he did, and the second the tip of his fingers touched my cheek, my eyes closed, I stopped breathing and my heart stopped. "Broken souls recognize each other."
His touch went to my hair and I swallowed, opening my eyes.
Fuck, I don't think I've ever felt this fucking affected by a man in my entire straight damn life, this is unsettling. Especially when this man in question could be the literal death of me and a psychopath who's playing with me. Well, maybe I do need a therapist because that's turning me on, though I would probably send my therapist to therapy.
"Dog," I swallowed, trying to snap out of it, taking three gracious steps away from this walking trap, avoiding his eyes, my heart quickening in a worrisome way, heavy breathing. "I have to get Cerberus' treats."
"Cerberus? Your friend's dog?" He asked.
Oh, stop talking to me, I need to get my shite together here, man. "I.. yes, yes, his dog," I clenched my jaw, grabbing my cart and quickly putting it between us, needing the distance from this male siren's enchantment. I am not okay, cunty fuckity shite, I am not okay, my heart is speeding up in a way that ain't normal, it can't be. "I need to leave," I told myself.
"The ice cream is closer than the dog session," he purred.
I blinked confused and I commied the mistake of looking into his hypnotizing lilac eyes again, "What?" Another mistake.
He grinned, eyes darkening, "You said you wanted ice cream."
"Ice cream?" I frowned feeling lost, my chest rising and falling in a way that can't be normal either. Why am I heavy breathing? "What?"
Wolf licked his lips and I felt my eyes draw to them, "You told your friend that you were craving for ice cream, and then he said something about strawberry shortcake ice cream to you. The ice cream is closer, love."
What the hell is happening to me? I feel light-headed, it ain't good. "Ah? Ice cream. I… I get it," I quickly turned away from him. "Ice cream."
"Are you okay, love?" He asked following me, I felt faint.