"Sorry."Lola stepped toward the secretary, causing their arms to stretch.Callon wasn't getting any closer to the human who always smelled of pheromones that he had no desire to inhale."He's cranky.I'm Lola."She held out her free hand.
The secretary stumbled back, nearly losing her balance as her hip hit the side of her desk in an attempt to get away from Lola, as if she’d been threatened rather than offered a handshake.“Don’t, I mean,” the secretary stumbled.“Are you contagious?”
Lola dropped her hand.“Only in days that end in ‘y’,” she said in a voice that was way too chipper for someone who’d just been insulted in such a disgusting way.
It would be wrong for him to kill his father's secretary right?Or was that a morally-gray area, considering she’d just insulted his mate by acting disgusted by her vitiligo.No one would have to know, his beast suggested.It had become much more vocal lately since finding Lola.Callon continued to watch the two females interact while trying to talk himself out of ripping the secretary’s throat out.
Lola dropped her hand."I apologize that I don't have an appointment.I didn't even know I was coming here today."
"Dammit all."Callon snarled under his breath."You don't need an appointment to see my father, your future father-in-law."
The other female’s eyes widened, and her mouth tensed."I apologize," she said curtly."I didn't realize you had a fiancée.She's..."There was a pause before she looked back at Lola."Lovely."The word came out tight, as if she’d nearly choked on it.
“It’s not really your business,” Callon informed her.“So you wouldn’t have known.And she’s more than lovely, she’s stunning.Now if you’d kindly get back to your job, we will continue on our way.”
“Callon,” Lola snapped as she whipped her head around to glare at him.“Seriously?”
“My father and mother are waiting,” he said, ignoring her obvious irritation at him.Just because he’d decided he adoredhishuman, it didn’t mean he was suddenly going to like them all.He didn’t bother to spare the secretary another look as he continued on, pulling Lola with him, towards his father’s door.
“Sorry,” Lola called out.“I’d say he’s not usually an ass, but I honestly don’t know.I’m going with yes.He’s definitely, usually, an ass.”
Callon walked faster though that didn’t stop Lola from talking.
“Have a great day,” she said.
“You don’t have to apologize to her,” he said as he pushed the door to Taras’s office open.“And she’s the one that was an ass.”
“I can apologize to whoever I please,” she said, her voice filled with irritation.“I mean, what was that?I’m used to people responding to my skin like that, Callon.I don’t need you offended on my behalf.”
Callon turned to look at her.He stepped closer until she backed into the now closed door they’d just entered.When she couldn’t go any further, he placed his hands on either side of her head and looked down at her.“Icanbe offended, and more than that, I can be pissed off at anyone who treats you as if you’re a leper.Especially someone employed by LGI.”His voice was tense and deadly serious.“That female has flirted with me every time I’ve come into this building, letting off pheromones only her male should scent.It’s offensive to my beast.Then she dared to attempt to show she had some sort of claim over me in front of you simply because she works for my father.It’s revolting.”His breathing had increased until Callon practically panted.He didn’t know why he was so worked up.The more he talked about how the secretary had behaved for as long has she worked for Taras, the more it agitated him.
“I’m going to ignore some of that reply because it just pisses me off.However, this might be a good time for me to point out that human men can’t smell pheromones, nor does a human woman know that she’s putting any off.”She chewed on her bottom lip briefly before adding, “Though it’s good to know, and embarrassing at the same time, that you can smell them.So, thanks for that.”She poked him in the chest.“ You can’t really blame her for being attracted to you.You’re hot.She doesn’t know you’re not human, or at least, I’m assuming that.”
“You assume correctly,” he said curtly.
“You probably draw her in with some sort of animal magnetism you don’t realize you’re putting off.Which means it’s your fault.”She raised her brow at him.
He frowned.“It’smyfault the human female desires me.”
“Yup,” Lola said, her head giving a little scooping motion as she spoke.“Don’t be so animalistically attractive and she won’t hit on you.”
“You know that's ridiculous right?”he asked as he leaned down closer.
“No more ridiculous than you getting angry over her acting like I’m a freak when she probably was raised by asshole parents who taught her to act like a snot when she was afraid of something, instead of just asking what it was.Or for having a crush on you for that matter,” Lola pointed out.
“Are you going to continue standing there trying to intimidate your female, or are you going to introduce us?”Lyra, his mother, asked from somewhere behind him.
Callon’s chest rumbled, his animal sounds becoming more frequent.Definitely more beast-like.He didn’t want to share Lola.Especially, when she was obviously irritated with him.Shouldn’t she be mad at the woman who’d hit on him right in front of her?Not to mention treated her as if she were a leper?
“If it doesn't bother you that she responded to you the way she did, doesn’t it bother you that she was hitting on me?”he asked her softly.
Lola tilted her head to the right, and narrowed her eyes on him.“Callon, we just met.I’m still trying to wrap my head around all of this.And you have repeatedly told me that I belong to you and you to me.Do I need to be jealous?”
“You were jealous over your friends,” he pointed out.He had no idea why he was goading her.“And they’re people you trust.”
She rolled her eyes.“My emotions are all over the place.I guess, standing there with you holding my hand, acting so rude to the snotty secretary, I didn’t feel the need to be jealous.But when you offer to send my friends a shirtless picture, I get a little irritated.”
“Noted,” he said, his lips nearly touching hers.When had he gotten so close to her?“So, I’ll be an ass to your friends, and not offer up pictures to them, even in jest.”His beast was slightly appeased at her response.He no longer felt like he needed to rip the secretary’s throat out.Maybe he needed to talk to his father about the intense emotions he was feeling before he did something so rash.
