Chapter 23
I gulped nervously as Cahan closed the door behind me. The door fell shut with a soft click and I
could not help but suddenly realize that it was just us two in here.
“Take a seat” He pointed to one of the many chairs as he walked towards his desk.
I look around and found a notepad and pen lying on the desk. “May I?” I asked, and he nodded.
I took it, mostly to give my hands something to do than fidget nervously. I clicked the pen and asked,
“So, everybody tells me you do not love parties or fun. What type of event are you looking forward to in
that case?” King Cahan pulled his big, plush chair and sat in it as I opened the notepad, waiting to
scribble.
“I am not sure but something that makes everybody stop eating my head”
Okay, that was not the response I was expecting.
“Hmm, why do you hate socializing?” I asked, and he furrowed his eyebrows,
“I don’t hate socializing.”
I repeated. “I think you do”
Cahan ced his hands on the table and countered, “Did you not see the dozen or so people who
were in a meeting with me?”
I shook my head as he mumbled, “Oh right, you did not. You were too busy dancing…in a towel.”
I looked away from him as I recalled the moment I had been doing my little happy dance and somehow
ended
my stomach. on top of him. That memory was still enough to make butterflies riot in
I did not look up but merely threw in another question so that he would not borate on that towel
dance again. “Either way, would you want the event to be held here or somewhere else?”
up naked
Cahan considered it, “Maybe, the front open grounds should be ideal. We can have it in the evening
so not everybody is packed under the roof.”
I scribbled on my notepad – he hates partying.
I gave him a smile and looked up. “Great, anything that you absolutely don’t want to happen in the
event. Like something you hate?”
Cahan scratched his chin, “Loud music. Please keep it soft”
I wrote down- he is boring.
This was helping me calm down my nervousness and frustration.
For the next few minutes, I asked him various questions about his choices and preferences, likes and
dislikes and he answered me without looking annoyed.
However, from time to time, he seemed to slip in some other world and mull over about something.
We chatted for a while as I got to know more about him. King Cahan did not have many friends as far
as I gathered, he liked to keep to himself but adored his beta, gamma and Drusi.
He was wealthy, extremely wealthy and was a self–made man. King Cahan was as ruthless to the
rogues and his enemies. as he was kind to his pack.
I had never thought of him to be anything but a growling, angry man hulk so seeing him talk about his
people with care was unexpected for me.
“Ok now if we talk about colors, what color co–ordination or themes would you want for the event?”
He was twirling a pen in his hand and answered, “I am not sure. How about ck?”
I blinked at him.
“ck? We are not going to somebody’s funeral, you know.”
He gave me a look and asked, “Well then you tell me what you have in mind.”
I tapped the end of the pen on my chin and muttered, “softer shades of pink and white along with some
flowers here and
there would be nice.”
The look he gave me when I said pink was almost as if I had asked him to strip for me.
Which by the way, was not too bad at all as an alternative.
I shook my head as he muttered, “Pink?”
I nodded my head and said, “Of course, pink. It is a ball…a mating ball for Goddess sake, pink and red
are the colors of
love.”
Cahan stopped twirling his pen and gave me an even look.
“Love? You believe in that?”
His gaze was hot, piercing and I felt unnerved by his stare. “Of course I do. Why else would the moon
Goddess give us
mates.”
Cahan shrugged and replied, “I am not sure, maybe she is running a marriage bureau or something
up in the clouds.”
I was appalled at this guy. He was making fun of the moon Goddess, a deity we all revered.
“Just because you can’t love somebody does not mean the world is devoid of it. It is like saying the
world does not need choctes because I hate it.”
My fingers curled around the pen and I kept clicking it anxiously. He noticed my furstrtiaon but still
continued,
“I can’t love someone? What makes you so sure of that?”
I took a breath to calm my nerves as his gaze held me in ce. I felt transfixed as his golden eyes
stared straight at me, right into my soul.
I shivered and felt queasy and felt my hands suddenly grow mmy.
I fumbled, “I…I said ‘don’t…just because you don’t love someone does not mean nobody needs it…”
But Cahan was not buying it. He got up from his chair and walked past therge desk toe and
directly stand in front
of me.
He was already quite tall so with me seated on the chair and him standing in front of me, it felt as if I
was gazing at the tip of arge tower.
Cahan slowly lowered his head, and ced his hands on the armrests of the chair I had been seated
on.
He brought his face at eye–level with me and I gulped nervously.
Cahan looked like a lion to me, both handsome and deadly, a fierce predator who was mesmerizing
to look at but also very dangerous to attract attention of
I saw the light stubble on his jaw and my hand suddenly itched to brush the pad of my finger against it.
“Can’t…” He breathed and I blinked furiously.
Had he just read my mind and told me no, he can’t allow me to touch his face?
Thanfkully, before I would ask him what he meant and bbered something sheepishly, he added,
“You said ‘you can’t love someone‘ not ‘you don’t love someone…why is that?”
He asked, his face a hair’s breadth away from me. I gulped again as I saw his expressions and the way
he looked at me expectantly, waiting for an answer.
His face was the most handsome face I had ever seen. And up close, he looked even more enticing.
He had a well–defined jawline that was sharp and angr while his cheekbones were prominent.Published by N?v''elD/rama.Org.
Not to forget his full lips that had kissed me. His lips were slightly parted and I tried to not look at them
and forced myself
up and meet his gaze again.
to look
“Uh, slip of tongue” I bbered because I could not think of anything else. Hell, I would forget what was
my name if he asked me right now.
Cahan was too close to me and the scent of his cologne was mouthwatering. He had to step away
from me if he wanted me to function.
Cahan looked at me evenly, his eyes searching my face as if trying to discern if I was joking at his
expense or had answered truthfully.
“Are you sure?” He asked again and I tried hard to not focus on how sexy he sounded or smelled.
My nerves were tingling and I could not maintain eye contact anymore. His gaze was too intense and I
feared he would simply look inside my head and read all the naughty thoughts I was having about him.
He was the lycan King, the most handsome and eligible bachelor of the entire Kingdom who had not
found his mate yet. I nodded. “P–positive” and then hastily added, “Y–your majesty”
“So you think I can love someone?”
“Umm…yeah?”
Cahan kept looking at me with that same intense look as I waited for him to pounce on me for
disrespecting him. But then a slow smile appeared on his face.
Feeling confused, I furrowed my eyebrows and his smile widened.
Before I knew, he wasughing, actuallyughing with his hands trying to hide his smile. And I only sat
there, staring stupidly at him.
If his looks were mesmerizing, hisughter was a sight to behold. He had the most infectiousughter I
had ever witnessed.
The pearly whites in his mouth shone in the soft light as his eyes almost began to water. He was
laughing loudly, his hands clutching his stomach.
I only stared at him nervously and slowly a smile appeared on my face too. Before long, he was
howling like a mad wolf, pping his thighs as heughed until his stomach hurt..
Even I began to smile as I observed him and the way his eyelids fluttered.
But then in an instant, he was in front of me, all theughter wiped out of his face. His hands mmed
on the armrest of my chair and I crouched back in surprise as he leaned forward.
“There is no such thing as love, only need, remember that” Cahan said to me and looked me in the
eye, waiting to see if I would challenge his im.
But I only stared at him nkly so he stepped away and then walked out of his office, leaving me
feeling confused and utterly bewildered.