The next day, Bellona carefully selected her outfit. She wore a short black skirt that stopped right on her thigh which outlined her curves perfectly and a white shirt that showed off her cleavages.
Bellona's long brown hair and her gorgeous hazel eyes complement her fierce but seductive look. She looked like the goddess of beauty, literally.
She didn't want to be extra so she went with this. If it were not in the office, she would have dressed in a more seductive outfit but she wanted to keep it official.
Maybe with this, she could seduce Zephyr and when they get in the mood, she'll kill him.
Bellona left her house but didn't forget to spray a little bit of the portion Nimue gave her. She wouldn't want to risk it because Zephyr would be quick to get her scent without the help of the portion.
She arrived at the company quite early but this time she waited outside to greet Zephyr.
As usual, Zephyr arrived by nine. When he alighted the vehicle, he eyes subconsciously went to her and lingered for a few seconds. He quickly averted his gaze and strolled into the company with Lucian trailing behind and then Bellona joined him.
On reaching the elevator that was reserved for the CEO, Zephyr and Lucian stepped in and as Bellona was about stepping in, Zephyr stopped her.
"Where do you think you're going?" He raised his brows.
"Huh?" Bellona asked confused. Where else would she be going to if not his office.
"This lift is for the CEO alone" Lucian explained with a frown.
"So what are you doing here, you're not the CEO, are you?" Bellona snapped. She hated Lucian's guts.
Zephyr smiled. This girl was something else and it made him want to mess with her so he pressed the button on the lift and said with a straight face, "let me not get there before you" and then the door closed.
Shit!
Bellona quickly ran to the employees lift, fortunately for her, the door was still open.
When she entered, she didn't care about anybody else and immediately pressed the button for the last floor.
But fate had others things planned for her. It was like every employee present in the lift stopped in every floor they passed. This was the longest ride for Bellona.
Eventually she reached the last floor and quickly ran to Zephyr's office but didn't find him there so she went to the conference room when she saw him sitting, working on his laptop and Lucian setting up some things, probably for the meeting.
"You're late" Zephyr said, not looking at her making Bellona rolled her eyes and busied herself with adjusting her outfit.
She wasn't going to answer him because she wasn't sure what would come out of her mouth because of how angry she was so she simply ignored him.
"The officials will be coming any moment from now so get ready." He said still not looking at her. It was as though he was trying to avoid her gaze or something.
He threw a book in her direction which she caught reflexively "Use this journal to write down the important agenda's of today's meeting. Do not miss any point."
"Go and bring them in" He said, this time addressing Lucian who quickly nodded and walked out of the conference room.
When they were alone, neither of them spoke to each other. While Bellona was busy observing her surroundings, Zephyr was trying to control his body to not react to her.
When he told her to dress well, he didn't really mean it, he was just teasing her and didn't expect her to take it serious.
He cleared his throat to keep himself in check. He was never a person to loose control easily. His self control was admirable.
Lucian arrived with the officials and each one of them, though older, showed their respect to Zephyr by bowing slightly except for the last man who simply nodded. The man looked to be the same age with Zephyr and Bellona couldn't help but ponder about his identity.
Soon, the meeting began and Bellona concentrated on taking notes. She wanted to impress Zephyr. What other way to make him fall for her than try to impress him?
Along the line, she felt someone staring at her. She chose to ignore it but the stare lingered so she looked to see who was looking at her and then, her brown eyes caught with Zephyr's blue ones. He was staring at her unblinkingly and then after a while, he averted his gaze like nothing happened.
Weirdo. Bellona muttered and turned back her attention to taking notes.
Zephyr was flustered. He didn't expect her to suddenly raise her head and make eye contact with him. He didn't shift his gaze from her immediately because he didn't want her to feel like she caught him so he maintained eye contact for a while.
Bellona felt another stare lingering on her yet again but this time, it was intense. She looked over to Zephyr but seemed to be listening to the official that was currently speaking so she looked the other direction and found the person who was staring at her. He was the young man who acknowledged Zephyr with just a nod.
She stared back at him with the same intensity and he smirked and winked at her in response before picking up the document in front of him to read.
Bellona was speechless. The audacity of this man. He gave her the creeps.
After a while, the meeting ended and all officials left except the young man who remained sitting.
"Come here" Zephyr called on her and handed over some documents to her. "Take this documents to the finance department and give it to Lucian. Make sure you give it to him and no one else. Understood?"
Did he not come to work with Lucian? How come he didn't give him the document. She knew this was one of Zephyr's attempt to rile her up so she just smiled
"Yes boss" Bellona said and immediately exited the office.
"You said you wanted to see me" Zephyr turned to the young man with a frown. "What do you want?"
The young man laughed out loud. "You never change Zephyrus. Always as impatient as ever. This is not the way to treat your old pal"
Lance was the Alpha of silver moon pack and Zephyr's childhood friend.
"I don't have all day, Lancelot" Zephyr's frown deepened.
"Alright. Let's go to your office. This is not the right place for the discussion" Lance said.
Meanwhile Bellona had reached the finance department and when she asked of Lucian, she was told by his secretary that he just stepped out.
"When will he be back?" Bellona asked impatiently.
"I don't know ma'am. But you can sit and wait for him" Lucian's secretary offered.
"Can't you keep it for him?" She said, stretching the document.
"I'm sorry, I can't do that ma'am" The secretary politely declined.
Bellona was now starting to place the two pieces together. Zephyr purposely sent her on the errand knowing fully well that Lucian was absent. He just wanted her out of his premises. Perhaps he wanted to discuss something private with the young man and he didn't want her to listen.
Bellona quickly rose from her seat and dashed out. She wanted to see if she could be able to eavesdrop on their conversation. It might be helpful in the nearest future.
************
Back in Zephyr's office
"We're in my office, now. So tell me, what do you want to discuss" Zephyr asked as soon as they entered his office.
"Slow down" Lance laughed "at least offer me water to drink. My throat is parched from talking all day."
"You didn't contribute in the meeting" Zephyr stated the obvious but still went ahead to pour him a glass of water.
"You don't have anything to tell me, right?" Zephyr suddenly said causing Lance to choke on his water making Zephyr glare at him.
"You figured" He let out an awkward laugh.
"What do you want?" Zephyr said but paused for a moment to think. "I think the right question is what are you buying time for?"
"Oh, you're so smart. I like it" Lance purred.
Zephyr studied him for a moment. He knew Lance since childhood. The man was cunning. Zephyr already had his suspicions on why Lance was wasting time but he wanted to be sure.
This was exactly why he sent Bellona on a futile errand. He saw the way Lance looked at her during the meeting and for some reason, that made him angry.
Was Lance interested in her? Obviously!
The man was interested in anything with a skirt and something in him wanted to shield Bellona from Lance.
At that moment, the door to his office flung open revealing Bellona and Lance let out a whistle.
Zephyr frowned. His worst fears was coming true. He didn't know why but he felt like his mate was about to me taken from him.
He could only have fate in Bellona not to fall for Lance's charms.
The moment Bellona stepped in the room, Lancelot, all but wolf whistled at her!"Astonishing" Lance loudly exclaimed and even stood from his seat. He didn't care that Zephyr was present in the room."Hello, beautiful" He immediately leaned forward and took Bellona's hands casually, raising it and placing a kiss on the back of her hands.After that, the man didn't let go of her hands immediately, rather he held it in place and gently caressed it.Bellona was disgusted beyond words. She wanted to fling his hands away from hers the moment he touched her but she refrained from doing so. Only God knew how much it took her not to break his hands the instant he touched her.She then slowly removed her hands from his grasp, displeasure clearly written on her face.She looked over to Zephyr hoping that he would at least caution his visitor to refrain from touching her but the man seemed like he didn't care.Noticing her discomfort, Lancelot quickly apologized. "Forgive me. I was flustered by
Bellona was furious beyond words. Apart from being furious, another emotion she felt was confusion. She was confused as to why Zephyr had treated her like a thief.He was the one who asked her to organize the shelf so why then did he behave like she acted on her on will.The way he reacted when she touched that book was very strange. Unless he was hiding something in that book or behind that shelf.She had seen many movies were a book in a book shelf was the key to a secret passage way. Could it be the same with the one in Zephyr's office?If Bellona had ever thought of pardoning Zephyr for murdering her parents, this event fueled her anger and drive for revenge.Bellona moved all those thoughts to the back of her mind. She needed to think of a way to get close to Zephyr because all the attempts she had tried didn't seem to be working out. She needed to go see Nimue. Maybe the woman would have a thing or two to say.Bellona quickly finished her worked and clocked out for the day. She
The next day, Bellona got to work early, she waited to greet Zephyr and after that, she took the employee's elevator and then made coffee for him.All these while, she didn't spare him a single glance nor did she try to appear jovial with him. She just kept a straight face through out. When he was done with the coffee, she simply took the cup back and then went to her office.Zephyr must have noticed because for some reason, he felt guilty. He regretted the way he treated her the previous day and he felt like apologizing for his behavior. Even though he felt remorseful, he wanted to keep his pride so he made use of the telephone to call her to his office.************After Bellona had received the call from Zephyr to come to his office, her straight face formed a frown. It was already bad that she had to put up with him and see him daily, now he was calling her to his office. Just what does he wants now? To anger her further?Still, she rose from her seat and walked to his office.
"hmm" She hummed, not in the mood to talk.The drive to the office was quiet. While Lancelot wondered what caused her change of mood, Bellona on her own kept thinking of what she saw.It was brief but she was able to recognize two children playing with each other, a boy and a girl. Though she couldn't see the little boy's face properly, she was able to recognize the girl.Who wouldn't be able to recognize themselves? The little girl was her."I'll get married to you" The boy said."I'll wait for you" The girl replied with a smile.Bellona was confused, she couldn't remember any event like this happening. Besides, she didn't have any childhood friend. She spent her childhood under Nimue's care.Nimue was very strict. She didn't permit her to socialize with the other children so she didn't know where this memory was coming from.She needed to tell Nimue about this.Soon, they reached Zephyr's company and Bellona alighted almost immediately."Let me walk you up" Lance came down from his
The moment Bellona stepped out from the vehicle, she quickly ran till she was out of sight. She stopped behind a building and breathed hard."What was that about?" She asked nobody in particular. Zephyr was behaving weirdly and he needed to stop it because it was making her feel....somehow.She took another deep breath and straightened herself. She walked to the road and hailed a taxi which took her to Nimue's place.On arriving, she knocked on the door and moments later, Nimue opened up the door."What are you doing here by this time of the night?" Nimue asked, feigning surprise."Something's bothering me" Bellona said."Come in. Have a sit" Nimue shifted from the entrance and Bellona entered and after which, she closed the door."What is the matter, dear?" Nimue asked, impatiently."I saw something. It felt like a memory but I can't remember if anything of that kind happened." Bellona opened up."What did you see? What was it?" Nimue anxiously urged her to speak."I saw two little
"What are you doing here?" Zephyr's voice resounded in her ears causing her fears to sky rocket through the roof.Bellona was too shocked to answer. How come he was back so soon? It wasn't up to two hours since he left and for all she knew, the site was an hour and thirty minutes away from the company.She didn't know what to say. This was the first time she was caught red handed and she couldn't help but wonder what Zephyr would do to her."Didn't I ask you a question?" Zephyr raised his voice when he didn't get any response from her."I- Uhm. You see..." She tried to form words but nothing was forth coming. It was as though all the courage she felt this morning had flew out the window.Her eyes darted around, not knowing where to look and landed on Lucian. The man looked like he wanted to kill her that instant. He was glaring daggers at her.She looked away and composed herself. "While you were away, I decided to clean your office. I took out a book and the shelf suddenly parted rev
Alpha Noah kept thinking of ways to get his daughter closer to Zephyr. Since the man was mateless, there was no other way to get them close rather than him falling in love with his daughter Olivia."Olivia dear" Alpha Noah called his daughter. "You want Alpha Zephyr right?""Yes daddy" She answered, happy that her father had finally brought up the topic."Then you have a role to play" He told her."I'll do anything to have him, Dad" "Good. You'll go to his company today-""No, I won't. Have you forgotten the way he treated me the last time I went there. It was so embarrassing" Olivia whined, cutting her father's words short."You're not going to seduce him" Alpha Noah said."I- I didn't try to seduce him. I simply went for the interview." She defended herself."Whatever" Alpha Noah rolled his eyes playfully. "You'll go to him and apologise""But why, daddy. He's the one who's supposed to apologise to me. He treated me like trash and that really hurt my pride." She frowned."I'm sorry
Bellona was furious when she saw that Zephyr left with that brat. She was very angry but not because of jealousy. She was angry at the fact that he was so easy to seduce yet she had been delaying for all these while. If she knew it'd have been so easy, she would have tried her luck a long time ago. She was also angry with the girl. Probably because she was currently disguising as a human girl, people were now taking her for granted. First it was Lucian and now it was this spoilt daddy's girl that she could easily break into two in the space of few seconds.Bellona had never felt so humiliated even the day Zephyr snapped at her because she touched his shelf, she wasn't half as angry as she was today. If Zephyr wasn't there with them and she wasn't disguising, she would have pounced on that girl and gave her the beating of her life.She vowed that when she had finished her main aim of coming here, she would tackle everyone that messed with her.Not wanting to dwell so long on the matte