Zorion Point of View

"Can I name him please? He is the cutest thing in the world. How can he be so small?"

I woke up to several amazing sounds one annoying one. Amazing, being my pets' and annoying, definitely tagged to my best friend King.

Back from the whole day outing with Meow, I could only take a good nap in my bed at my home for an hour and the prick appeared without a notice.

Apparently, he is here to wish me happy birthday but was in turn surprised by the small creatures now living with me at my home.

"He already has one. They all do." I spoke gruffly, getting myself a cup of hot bitter coffee. "The little pup is called Prince White. The male turtle is named the shadow and the female is called Sunny. The male love bird is Cupid and his female love is called Psyche. The two male cockatiels are named Silver and Killer. The three female are named Ruby, Emerald and Sapphire."

He scoffed at me when he heard all the names and gave me a sneer of amusement. "No doubt, cat girl named them."

"No I did. She only gifted them and I gave them all the names." I informed him curtly, feeling my droop down in drowsiness again.

"Why are you here so early in the morning, King? I'm tired and need some sleep." I said plopping on the couch and rested my head back on the backrest as I closed my eyes, feeling them getting heavy.

I had no proper sleep last night with Meow and I sleep in a small tree house, beside each other, trying not to touch accidentally. Well, I tried not to touch while she slept like a baby without a care for the world.

Her sleeping habits though...

She snores like a motor.

She hisses and huffs in sleep like a slithering snake.

Her hands and legs have their own mind. Heck, she even threw her leg on my crouch in sleep that it took me a full half an hour to calm down the pain. Only a man knows that pain.

I went to sleep outside but mosquitoes and cool breeze pushed me back into the hut again. At that moment, I thought even nature is helping her.

"I'm confused." I spoke, my eyes still closed, after a few minutes of silence. The only noise I heard was King playing with my pets.

I cannot say how surprised and happy to have these pets. It never crossed my mind to have a pet before. I found them high maintained but when Meow gifted those little things to me, I might not accept it openly but I love them.

It felt... surreal to have them.

Well, all except one.

"Hmm?"

"There is another pet that she gifted me last night." I said finally opening my eyes and sitting straight. Prince White ran to me and wagged his small tail, asking me to pet him.

I picked him up in my arms and sat him cozily there. "The last pet was a cat."

"And?"

"It was her." I shrugged as his faced turned confused.

"What? I don't understand."

"The cat was her. She gave herself to me as a gift." If I was not serious and deadly confused right now, I would've laughed for three days straight at the look he has on his face.

King's eyes almost popped out of his skull.

"She proposed?" He exclaimed, walking to me and sitting across me with Killer and Emerald on her shoulder.

"That is what I'm confused about." I sighed trying to put my bafflement into right words. "I don't know if her offer was just a part of friendly gesture, giving herself to a friend in a friendly way or was it a romantic proposal. But... you know, I felt so happy and alive last night."

I was so stunned by her sudden proposal last night. I mean, I didn't know how to respond to her. If I accept her as a metaphorical pet like she offered to, then I would be accepting her feelings, whatever they are. If I don't...

Actually, it was a gift, that too an Almond gift where refusing is out of question. She would never let me reject.

So I kept quite with a small smile and that saved the day.

"You have feelings for her?" He asked after scrutinizing me for good few minutes. His question was rather a statement.

He did not ask, he stated, confirmed.

"Absolutely not!" I snickered in mirth. "Me and her? Are you living in a fantasy world now? I like women who come in the night and go away the next morning and I prefer it that way. Seriously King? An Almond? Meow Almond? What does she even have to attract me?"

I like pleasured nights; not pressured days.

I'm happily married to my companies, spending my honeymoon with my paperwork and soon expecting to be a father of chain of restaurants in Asia.

This is life. This is love. This is me and I am happy.

"You know," He started giving me a once all over, a thoughtful look in his eyes. "I doubt you meant what you said. Are you happy you have pets or are you happy she gave them to you?"

That got me tongue tied.

But of course I –

"Never knew you had it in you, sweetheart. Are you going to be in dry fruit market soon? Although, I'm surprised it came sooner than I thought. You are a prick, a rascal and a moron; how come this happen and when?"

"Are you done? I don't love her." I gritted.

Wasn't he always against Meow? Didn't he dislike her?

"I never said you love her. I said you have feeling for her, ambiguous feeling but you confirmed the love part now." This man!

I threw called out for Killer and Emerald who were sitting on his shoulder and when they heard my voice, they flew to me and rested on my arms. Once he is free from any of my dear pets, I threw a stack of pillows at him for enraging me.

I DON'T LOVE HER! Period!

"Then, are you working out your feelings for my secretary? What's her name again – umm, yes, Aella Almond." Hearing me, a smirk snaked on his lips.

What is he not telling me?

"She and I, are a thing now; possibly we will be a greater thing in future on forever grounds." Now, this got me.

When the hell did he land my secretary?

"When did this happen? I thought you are scared of Almonds?"

"When you were busy with your cat, I tried my luck with mine. You know, these Almonds are not that bad. They are fun to be with." What the heck is he talking?

Almonds? Fun?

Is he high on something?

"You met them?"

"Um hmm, I went to ask Aella's hand for dating and they blessed us when Aella did not object."

"Why didn't she object?"

"She couldn't." He said with an evil smirk on his face.

What did he do?

This grin of his comes up on his lips when he was being sketchy and manipulative. I knew for one that when he grins like this, then his prey is so done for.

Interesting!

"Oh do tell me what you did." I simpered at him, intrigued by the story.

"Your Meow is surely eccentric but my Aella is a very introverted girl and I liked that about her. Just the needed amount of submissive with the peculiarity of being an Almond and she won over me."

"Get to the point." I growled

"She confessed her love for me and I accepted. Chapter closed." Nah, my secretary is too shy to admit she loves someone.

She is too coward!

I raised a brow as I gave him a warning glare to which he laughed as if I'm here for his amusement.

"Alright, I told her that she has feelings for me and that she confessed her love for me." Huh?

"What? I don't get it. Be clear, you fool."

"Tell me, my baby boy, what is it that makes Almonds different from others?" He asked chuckling at my curiosity.

"They are mad."

"Yes, what else?"

"They are peculiar."

"Undoubtedly! What else?" I gave it a thought for a second before answering again.

"Most of them have some kind of condition." He immediately clapped his hands with excitement once he heard my words.

"Bingo. The condition. Psychological or a physical condition that makes them different." Okay! So?

"When we met Almonds for the first time, I did hesitate to go on with my feeling for her seeing how unique and big her family is. But one of Aella's cousins set her on a blind date recently; just say it got on my nerves when I saw the girl I have crush on smiling with some dusty hair boy in my restaurant. I almost kidnapped her from there."

"But?" I narrowed my eyes at him knowing too well that there is a large but in it. King passed me a proud smile; proud of himself for some freaking reason.

"So, I assumed patience and tried to spend some time with her and engage her time with me in one way or the other and guess what I found out?" He didn't give me the time to guess and continued.

"Aella has a condition too and by God, what a lovely condition she has."

"Oh let's hear it?" By now, I'm not surprised my well accomplished secretary has some kind of condition since I'm used to Almonds theory now.

"When highly startled, my Aella forgets the past few hours before that moment."

He used her condition against her to trick into a relationship with him!

Why didn't my Meow have such good condition?

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