17 Back to normal...for now
They are still standing in the garden. Under the bright blue cloudless skies. Zi Mei's breathing is slowing down, her pulse is also slowing down. She became fully aware of his arousal pressed hard against her behind, his hand still cupping one of her breasts and another still inside her pants. He removed his hands and released her suddenly. She stumbled and caught herself, her legs still weak from her release just moments earlier.
She blushed at what just happened. She had just let him touch her down there and her breasts too. He just made her come and she came so hard, her legs gave way. She remembered screaming out so loudly.
Omg. She is so embarrassed. She covered her face in shame. What had gotten into her. If he had not released her, she would have let him pull down her pants and do what he wanted to her, right there, outside in the open. Not that there was anyone around anyway. But still. She was utterly mortified. How was she ever to face him again? She kept her back turned towards him, not daring to turn to face him.
He sauntered over to face her instead. He peeked through her fingers covering her face.
"There's nothing to be ashamed of and I am satisfied that you are truly untouched, your aura fully protected and unsullied by other human males," he said. He lifted his fingers, the ones that had touched her down below and was buried deep inside her just moments earlier, and licked them. He moaned in pleasure. "You are so sweet too, I can't wait to get a full taste," he said, licking his lips suggestively, his eyes full of primal arousal and desire.
She gulped. He pulled her hands away from her face.
"Why so embarrassed? We are doing much more than this sooner or later…though I am hoping much, much sooner," he said. He gestured to the large bulge pushing against his pants. "Look at what you did to me," he added.
She blushed even redder. She looked away. She can't look him in his eyes and she sure can't look down there. Not at that thing. That huge bulge. She wondered, again, if it will hurt when he put it inside her. She swallowed nervously. She is so unprepared for this. She is actually quite scared.
As if sensing her fear, he turned away and walked away from her.
"Oh well…we can continue later then," he said off handedly. "I've returned everything as is so you can go out and play with your friends, whatever," he added.
She lighted up. She can now go back outside and see Darren for real!
"A word of warning…," he turned back to her and looked at her intently. "I already have a taste of your aura…if you do anything to change it, I will know," he warned her.
She rolled her eyes at him and gave him a look.
"Ya ya ya…I am not supposed to go around kissing and sleeping with human males…seriously, don't be such a grandpa with all your nagging," she said.
She tilted her head as a sudden idea came to mind.
"So, it is entirely okay if I kiss and sleep with a human female? And what about transgenders?" she asked and smiled innocently at him.
He frowned at her. She shrugged innocently as if it was a valid question.
"Well, there is a strong LGBTQ+ movement going on, yay rainbow, so I have to ask to be sure…you should put a clause on this in your contract," she said. "Just sayin'," she shrugged again.
"If you are so inclined, fine, go ahead. Only those with yin energy. No one with any yang energy, regardless of what gender they identify with," he replied.
Now she is confused. What's with his yin and yang whatever energy nonsense. Not that she actually wanted to fool around with women. Or men for that matter. She had only wanted to rile him up.
"Whatever…I'll be off then and I'll see you much much later," she said. She gave him a salute, push past him at the doorway and found herself back in the brightly lit corridor. He followed close behind her, not in the least in a hurry.
She didn't know where to go but she will be damned if she has to turn to ask him how to go out. She will have to figure out how his home works eventually. She headed down the corridor and came back to the living room. She noticed the door she came through was still there so she headed straight for it and opened it.
It opened straight out into the street. Right back to a few hundred metres away from N Cafe. She is beginning to suspect that this will be the point where she will appear every time she leaves his place. She hurried to the cafe and went inside.
Alfie looked up from the counter and waved to her. It was like deja vu. She crossed her fingers and hoped this time he will remember her. She went up to him at the counter.
"Alfie!" she exclaimed.
"Zee! Why did you resign so suddenly? Did you get a better job?" he asked. She was so relieved she almost jump up and hug him over the counter. Then she realised what he had just said.
"What? Resign?" she asked him.
"Ya, boss told me you tendered your resignation yesterday, you even gave a 24-hour notice…isn't it?" he asked, puzzled at her confusion.
The old dragon must have did that for her. On top of moving out her stuffs. He sure have thought of everything, she thought.
"Oh, ya, haha, ya, I found a better paying job, you could say that…hahah," she lied. No point denying what was already done.
"So, are you here to get a drink or just to visit me?" he asked.
"Oh, I thought I wanted to meet my friends here," she quickly come up with another excuse for being there. She gestured to a large table at the corner of the cafe.
"I'll sit there first and call them, then we will order our drinks, is that okay?" she asked.
"Sure, go ahead. Not like we are busy anyways, it's quite slow today, considering it's Friday," he said.
The cafe was deserted. Not even a single table was occupied. Zi Mei made her way to the table and pulled out her phone. She dialled Darren's number and crossed her fingers.
He picked up on the first ring.
"What the hell Mei! Where have you been?? It's been two days!" he was shouting into the phone. "Where are you now? What happened? Where did you disappear to?? You can't even send me a blank email to reply? Not even a single text!"
"Darren! Darren! Stop! Let me talk!" she interrupted him. He paused.
"Okay, explain," he said.
"Why don't you come meet me at N Cafe? I'll explain everything and I need to call Jazzmine and Sheena too," she said.
"Ugh. Must Sheena come? Really?" he protested. She stifled a giggle. In Thorin's manipulated world, Darren was dating Sheena. How different it is in reality.
Her friends were seated around her at the cafe about an hour later. Darren had arrived merely 10 minutes later while Jazzmine five minutes after him and Sheena, 20 minutes later. She lived on the other side of the island so it took her a while to travel over.
"So, what gives?" Sheena asked the moment she sat down. Zi Mei had waited for her to arrive before she launched into an explanation for her short disappearance. Darren and Jazzmine were making small talk about the weather and their courses even though she knew they were dying to find out what had happened. She had concocted an elaborate lie and hoped it would be enough to convince her friends.
"I, er, found a better job but it required me to move in with them," she said. "It was all quite sudden actually. They made me an offer I couldn't refuse, they pay me really a lot, and I mean a lot, A LOT," she emphasised.
"So, my phone ran out of battery, I was stuck in their luxurious mansion, er…handling an important confidential project, and that was why I couldn't contact any of you guys but I just completed some of it and I am given time off to come and meet you guys," she quickly said. What she said wasn't that far from the truth anyway. Just without the scandalous baby making slave details.
There was silence for a while. Then the questions came. Who are they? Where is the mansion? How much is A LOT? Is it something illegal? What important confidential project? What sort of a job is it? She's not being dragged into selling drugs is she? Don't they have a phone charger? Don't they have internet?
"It must be something illegal, it sounds so suspicious!" Sheena declared.
"I agree! Mei, you could have been tricked into something illegal," Darren said.
Jazzmine nodded along, looking at her with a worried expression.
It took her almost two hours of explaining, adding on more layers of lies, and reassuring her friends before they stopped questioning her.
"I don't know Mei. It sounds suspicious as heck. Maybe you can take us there and show us the place?" Darren finally said.
