A Moment Like This – Chapter 36 – Offers And Acceptance - By Serenity Rose Wheeler
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(On With The Story!)
(Kaiba's POV)
I walked out of my office and headed toward my elevator trying to ignore the fact that my damn secretary stared at my ass the whole time I was walking. That woman was officially fired as of now. Sick people… After I made it to the first floor, I walked over to the meeting room where the supposed 'important person' was going to meet me. I walked into here and seen someone I didn't recognize.
"Hello, Mr. Kaiba. I'm so happy that you were able to see me." He said as he bowed low. I wanted to see him grovel too, but bowing was fine.
"What do you want?" I asked as I tapped my foot impatiently. I mean, come on! I wanted to finish my work before 3 so Mokuba wouldn't be able to say that I never spend time with him.
"I am going to have a business dinner and it will be located in Paris, France." He explained. God, I hated business dinners. You should never get more then 500 tightwads and stuck-ups in a room at the same time. It isn't pretty.
"No thanks." I said before I was about to turn around and walk out the door.
"No, Mr. Kaiba! Please accept this! It's going to be an auction dinner where about 100 CEO's are going to sell their prestigious companies, and I thought you might consider!" he said before I stopped in my tracts.
"Keep talking." I said as I was still turned away from him.
"Well, the dinner isn't until the day after Christmas and you will only have to spend a night, and I'm sure your wife would love to see Paris!" the man said as he smiled at me. Wife? Where the hell did he get that load of crap? But this guy could get me into a party where I could buy companies that would really help with the loss of money during the Christmas season.
"Um. Sure." I said in my usual emotionless voice.
"Great! Thank you so much, Mr. Kaiba!" he shouted as he got up and hugged me. God, why do people have to do that? Speaking of which, I wanted to ask him where he got that idea that I was married came from. Everyone knew that I'm only 18! Everyone also knows that the only reason a woman would want me is just to get in bed with me or to have my money. It was a little different of me. I didn't want a woman period. I have no sexual desires yet, and as little as I care, I don't think I ever will.
After he left, I was just standing there looking at the ground. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had almost half a month to find a woman to go to the dinner with me, and I knew that with my looks, it wouldn't be hard, but I had to have some sanity. I at least had to find a woman who I would be with. And with everyone's thoughts on me, it would probably be one with all breasts and no brain. Well, that was all the cheerleader squad, but I wasn't the type of guy who liked breasts.
I mean, come on! All those are practically for is breastfeeding a child. I had no idea why it was practically all the boys in my school thought about day and night. Those pigs. Oh well, I had work to do and I had a while to worry about it, so I thought it would be good just to get back to work and worry about it later on. After I was back in my office, the phone started to ring. God, that thing was going to be thrown at the wall if a few seconds if it wouldn't shut up…
(Later That Evening)
(Kaiba Mansion)
It was already 9:00 pm and I just finished getting that work done. Let's see, after I got back into my office and destroyed my phone, I couldn't think straight. I spilled coffee all over my report for the last document, I got all pissed and destroyed my office, I had to redo the report, my laptop froze and I lost the data for my document before that, I had to do that again, and after yelling obscenities for 2 more hours, I finally finished and now, here I am.
"Seto!" Mokuba shouted as soon as I walked in the door. After he tackled me and I fell to the floor, I felt my side wound open up. My brother was really working on my nerves lately…
"Mokuba. Why aren't you in bed?" I asked trying to ignore the fact that my damn wound was throbbing like there was no tomorrow.
"It's Saturday, silly! I always stay up until like 1 on Saturday!" Mokuba replied in his normally over-hyped voice. I sighed deeply. Why do I keep completely forgetting that it's the weekend? "Something wrong?" my brother continued to ask as he got off of me.
"Nah. I think I'm going to go take a shower." I said before getting up off the floor trying to ignore the 'look' from Mokuba. That kid has to learn that he isn't going to get everything in life by begging…
"Good evening, Master Seto!" Roland said happily as I saw him on top of the staircase cleaning something up.
I just grumbled something in response. He didn't seem to mind, well of course there was the fact that he was used to it. After I walked into my room, I walked in front of the mirror and removed my shirt. I lifted up my arm and saw the large slash on my side. Yep, Mokuba opened it all right… It kind of grossed me out, but blood never bothered me much. I looked at my chest and seen the visible scars and reminded myself that I would have to get those removed pretty soon.
I just shook my head before entering my bathroom. Maybe I was kind of vain. Nah, I just had the money to get those removed so I could stop thinking about that horrible day. I still feel sick to the stomach about it. Not because the slut almost killed me, but because she almost rode me… Ugh… I removed the rest of my clothing before getting in the shower and let the water gently hit my body.
The steam from the shower felt good actually. I hated winter. I always started to itch because I got dry skin and lotion was out of the question. "Seto!" I heard Mokuba's voice ask through my bathroom door that I always locked. You could never touch those sick maids. God, what was it with women and my male anatomy? Sick freaks.
"What is it?" I asked.
"The maids are wondering what you want for dinner!" Mokuba replied.
"I'm not hungry!" I shouted back. Yeah, I know I was lying. I hadn't eaten anything all day, but in all truth, hated their cooking. Our chef was sick and he wasn't going to return for about another week.
"All right! I'll tell them that!" Mokuba shouted in reply before I heard his footsteps run off. That kid was going to hurt himself one day if he keeps running continuously like that. Oh well, I am just so stressed at the moment. I have no idea why. I saved the shrimp. That was her payback even thought she doesn't know about it. I just hope no one told her. Well, Mai said she wouldn't and she is the only person who knows, so I doubt she would tell anyone without worrying about me getting pissed which is not pretty.
I got out of the shower a few minutes later and after getting dressed and fixing up my wound, I lay down on my bed and closed my eyes. I had no idea why I was tired, but at least I could sleep without worrying about work now.
(Serenity's Apartment)
(Normal POV)
Serenity was watching a horror movie with her brother. Well, a pillow for 95 percent of the movie covered her face, but Joey didn't really seem to mind. He knew his sister was sensitive and she hated seeing people die even on fictional movies that would never happen. "Ahhh!" Serenity screamed when she accidentally removed it when she wasn't supposed to.
"Man, this movie is so corny…" Joey muttered as he crossed his arms angrily.
"Why are you saying that? That poor guy got eaten alive!" Serenity shouted as she removed the pillow from her face to look at her brother.
"His guts looked like a living lasagna! It was totally fake!" Joey replied as he held at his hands out to the TV in question. Serenity's throat gurgled loudly before she ran to the bathroom to throw up. "Hmm… Now I'm in the mood for lasagna…" Joey continued before getting up and walking to the kitchen.
Serenity sat by the toilet holding her stomach. She had no idea how Joey handled seeing something like that and thinking about food a second later. Serenity sighed deeply before thinking about what Mai told her. "Just tell Kaiba!" Mai's voice rang in her head. She couldn't. She told herself that it was her raging hormones and it probably was. But there had to be something about Kaiba that helped her stay this fascinated with him this long without killing him…
(To Be Continued…)