He immediately asked me, “Do you like the new office?”
“It’s alright. It’s just a place to work in.”
“Oh, yes. But you still have to like it.”
I could sense that he was a little nervous, and he didn’t seem to know what else to say. “Then I’ll get back to work.” I decided to end the conversation quickly.
“Hold on.” He stopped me. “You have to work late tonight, right?”
“I guess so. I don’t think I’ll sleep well for the next two weeks..”
“I’m working late too. Shall we have dinner together tonight?”
I refused without even considering the option. “If everyone is going to work late and I spend a few hours eating dinner, my reputation is going to suffer.”
“No, no, no. It’s not that kind of dinner. I know you’re serious about work. It’s just a quick dinner.”
I couldn’t find any other reason to refuse. After all, no matter how busy I was, I still had to eat. After thinking for a while, I said, “I’m on a diet. I’m not going to eat dinner.”
He went silent for a while. When he spoke again, I could feel the suppressed anger in his voice. “You’re already very slim, why are you still trying to lose weight?”
This conversation made me laugh. The way he talked, the tone of his voice, he sounded exactly like Abraham. Whenever I want to lose weight and not eat anything, I would stare at Abraham with widened eyes when he ate, then he would explode with rage. I still find those incidents funny, he was really cute.
Andre heard my laughter and became even angrier. “I’ll wait for you in the office for dinner. If you don’t come up after seven, I’ll come down with dinner and come and look for you.”
I then heard some tapping sounds. I must have clicked the wrong button and didn’t actually end the call. We were still connected on the call. Andrew’s voice came again. “I’m hanging up.”
I couldn’t help but imagine what he was doing. Could it be that he was so angry that he wanted to hang up on me, but he felt bad hanging up, so he told me about it?
Hmm… He didn’t really behave like a scheming President who was successful in his power play, but more like a young boy.
“Okay.” I tossed my phone on the table and got ready to get back to work. But from the corner of my eye, I could see that he hadn’t hung up yet.
I quickly clicked the button on the screen to end the call and after that, I couldn’t help but think of Abraham. If it wasn’t under special circumstances, he would never hang up on me. Even after the call ended, he would still wait for me to hang up.
I couldn’t help but wonder why Andrew and Abraham were so similar. His familiar aura and behavior surprised me.
Suddenly, a phone call from an unfamiliar phone number came in. When I picked up the call, the voice on the other end was a little hoarse. “Hello. Did you leave a comment under my article to find out more about werewolves?”
I immediately tensed up. “Yes, it’s me. May I know who you are?”
“You don’t need to know who I am. What do you want to ask?”
I was supposed to just shoot my questions at him? I was full of doubt, but he sounded almost impatient. I didn’t want to end up losing the clue so I just tested the waters. “Have you ever met a werewolf?”
“You should ask about things related to yourself. Don’t try to ask about my matters.” His tone became even more impatient.
I had to ask the question that was on my mind. “I was hurt by a werewolf on the 15th, but the next day, all the traces on my body had disappeared.”
The other party’s voice suddenly became deep. “During the full moon?”
“Yes.”
He went silent. This suffocating silence made me ask, “Are you still listening?”
“Yes,” he said. “You must mean something special to werewolves. Werewolves tend to go berserk during a full moon, and it’s easier for them to go into heat. If you’ve driven them mad, you probably would have been torn apart as an ordinary person. Do you remember how he hurt you that night?”
“Oh… um…” I covered my forehead. It was hard to say anything about it.
“He assaulted you?” The other party was resolute.
I immediately laughed to hide my embarrassment. But at the same time, I had a little faith in him. He must have known quite a bit about werewolves. “Yes,” I replied.
When he heard my answer, he continued, “Then he probably didn’t want to hurt you. It’s just that he couldn’t control his feelings for you during the full moon. Do you have any marks on your body that weren’t from birth? It might look like a birthmark or a scar.”
There was so much information for me to process, I couldn’t really understand what he was talking about. How could that werewolf have feelings for me? As for the marks that formed after birth, I subconsciously touched my ear. “I have a scar.”
“Did you encounter anything abnormal when that scar was formed?”
“Wolf!” I blurted out. Yes, I met a wolf when I was nine years old!
The other party said, “That should be it. The one you encountered at that time was definitely not an ordinary wolf, but a werewolf. Your so-called scar should be the mark of a werewolf’s love.”
“What?” I slid my fingers into my hair, unable to believe him.
He continued, “It seems like you’ve heard of it before. Werewolves will only have one partner in their lifetime, and he will brand the Seal of Love on his chosen partner. With this Seal of Love, werewolves will develop telepathy with their partner. Clearly, you’ve been chosen by a certain werewolf.”