She dove out dangerously close to him and he chuckled.
Even the eyepatch didn’t make her any uglier – on the contrary, it added a quirk he actually enjoyed seeing.
«Now…» Serena wiped her face. «We talk. No sex. No touch, no nothing. Just… talk.»
«It’s kind of…» Elijah glanced down at her body. «Hard to concentrate.»
«Practice makes perfect.» she smiled, moving aside to the edge and leaning with her back onto the pool wall. «What shall we talk about?»
«Uh…» the man closed his eyes, shaking off the feeling of being teased extremely hard. «You’re doing this on purpose.»
«Fine. I’ll start. Tell me about your work. What do you actually do?»
Elijah took a deep breath.
«I’m CEO…» he exhaled.
«Eyes on me. We don’t hide our eyes, as it is a sign of disrespect and possible lies.»
He forced himself to look at her:
«CEO, head of a regional department of the Company.»
«What is your usual day like?»
«Boring. Meetings, calls, reports, numbers.» he caught himself on a thought he was really getting distracted from her body and becoming more collected.
«So if you’re doing such a boring job, then why have bodyguards?» Serena glanced to the two brothers and saw them avoiding looking at her, quietly talking about something.
«My family. We’re not simple people. We have lots of enemies.»
«Dangerous enemies?»
«I’ve had a number of assassination attempts, Serena.»
The woman chuckled:
«Ah. That I can understand.»
«I take it, you have been subjected to this as well?»
«More than enough.» Serena shrugged. «Though, unlike you, I deal with my attempted murderers myself.»
«What if you’re sleeping when they come?»
«Veluthians sleep lightly. We’re taught to be on guard all the time since early childhood, Elijah.»
«You talk like all you do is war…»
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