Chapter Twenty: Handsome Jerk III
Seraphina's POV
Looking at the chandelier, I wondered if all the rooms were like that? Surely the last one I stayed at wasn't. "Why is this room special?" Was it just because it was at the newer mansion?
Percy switched off the lamp but the other lights stayed on. "I said to guess." he returned to my side and looked at the documents. "These are the documents Second spoke of, right?"
I sat up and nodded. "Do you think they're important?"
"Luther would decide, not me."
Valid. I went back to sorting them based on how old the dates were. "Go back to your room if you have nothing else to say. Oh, thanks for the lights."
He stayed there for a while, before leaving. I exhaled deeply, glad that I'd get to breathe in something other than sandalwood. That wasn't healthy for me.
I raised the documents to the bed and tucked myself close to the bed's head and continued sorting. If I felt sleepy, I'd just sleep and let Luther handle everything. The room door opened and I smiled, looking up and expecting Luther.
A maid bowed to me as she and another carried a white two seat couch into my room and kept it by my bedside. What the hell was happening? They left before I could ask.
Was it additional furniture for me? I hadn't ask. "Did Percy send it over because he saw me working from the bed?"
He had that side to him? Maybe his mother wasn't totally clueless when she said he was a nice young man.
I didn't mind staying on the bed, but sitting on the couch would make me more productive so I started to move with the documents towards the couch.
The door opened again, and I paused.
Percy strolled in, wearing pyjamas and the sweater he took earlier, holding a flask of chips. He fell on the couch and hung his leg on of his arms.
"So Luther would be back in the next twenty minutes. He'd like you to be awake till then." He informed.
I stayed calm, waiting. What else did he want to say that'd require him sitting on the couch? But he said nothing else.
"I thought I told you to return to your room. What else do you want to do here?" I kept on sorting the documents. This young man wouldn't get on my nerves this night.
Did he know how wrong it was to be in a ladies' room this late at night? Or did he not see me as a lady?
That thought made me halt my sorting and I glared at him, expecting my answer. This handsome jerk might get a beating depending on his answer.
"This room is my room, little miss. You're my guest so don't complain when I try to host you." He said with his head resting on the other armrest and munching on chips.
I looked around the place, the expensive chandelier, the wardrobe full of his clothes and the hidden room that had a comics collection. It seemed to really be his room.
My cheeks reddened. "S-So why am I in it?"
"Why are you in it?" he asked back.
It'd probably be because I needed a bigger room and this one fit the bill. I faked a smile. "Should I be prostrating in thanks for letting me use your room?"
"I wouldn't mind, but don't do it." He sighed. "I don't want you turning it upside down and telling my mother I bullied you into something again."
A chuckle left me and I continued sorting. As long as he stayed there quietly then it wouldn't be a problem, he didn't reek of sandalwood strongly anymore too.
Luther arrived almost thirty minutes later, and my eyes were closed as I laid on the bed. "Is she still awake?" he asked the butlers standing in front of the door.
I didn't understand why they stood there since it was only Percy and I in the room. Were they protecting him from me? I could never tell. Luther knocked on the door.
I opened my eyes but saw Percy throwing his empty chips can to the door. What was that to mean? Luther slammed the door open immediately. "Percy! What are you doing in her room?" he began pulling his leg.
Finally someone with common sense. I was a lady for crying out loud. Percy tried to wriggle his leg from his hold. "We were waiting for you. She got some documents."
Luther stopped pulling and turned to me. He smiled and patted my head like I'd imagine he did to Edward. "You successfully left your pack? I didn't think it'd be so soon."
It had surprised me too. Alpha Sebastian must've gone through something that'd make him less reasonable in the future, because that's the only explanation. Somehow, I wondered if I could've changed his response in the future.
Things weren't really the same as I discovered my role as a heiress, but what if something had changed him? I shook the thought of my mind. I should remain in the present.
"They seem to be old documents though." I told Luther as he sat on the couch and took a handful.
Percy rested on his laps and they really looked like an old couple reading the newspaper to me. "If you aren't helping, just leave. Don't distract him."
"Little miss, your jealousy is showing." Percy waved dismissively.
Jealous? Of who? I rasped. "Spoilt brat."
"Desperate—" he stopped. "Stop tempting me."
I huffed. Why was that always his go-to? I'd show him when I'd glow up, though I had no idea when and how.
Luther shifted a document to me. "That one is important. It's one of the first contract we signed with our main artists. They were a group so its important we have that."
I looked into it. Aztec was their name. I remembered seeing their credits on some cartoons I watched to pass time. Most of their shows were hits.
I nodded and kept it in a folder. "They still work for us?"
Luther nodded, and shifted another one to me. "Just keep this one. I don't know them but it could come in handy." He shifted a couple towards Percy and I assumed those ones were unimportant.
I rested my head on my pillow and a wave of dizziness sank me into slumber. I forced myself up and stared at the bright chandelier light. I've been too comfortable today or else, I usually begged for sleep.
"Let's move to my room." I heard Luther tell Percy. I turned to them and why did it seem Percy had been watching me trying to sleep? The young man was a real pervert.
He sighed, leaving Luther's laps. "You'd start your business school next week, right, little miss?"
I remembered what I spoke about to Mrs. Lennon and nodded. The two left my room and I let myself sleep.