Unable to stop smiling as she stood by the table, Nora set a bowl gently down on the plate, giving Bella a soft grin before walking away.
After picking up her fork, she stopped herself from cutting into her meat and stared at Neron.
It didn't take long for him to notice her stare, and he laid his knife down, asking, "What is it?"
"Can we just be boss and employee at the company?" Bella whispered, barely getting all the words out clearly because of how intensely Neron was staring at her.
Annoyed, he took a moment to compose his emotions and said, "No. I can not have people treating you like an ordinary employee when you are my woman, carrying my kids."
"You know it's not good to mix your personal life with business," Bella mumbled, pouting slightly. "I'm just saying."
When Neron furrowed his brows, she squeezed her fist and uttered with confidence, "It's going to feel really weird having to get special treatment at the company. I already feel bad that I got the job so easily because I am your lover."
"Bella," Neron whispered hesitantly.
"Please! I just don't want to feel uncomfortable at work. It's going to affect me and the babies."
"People at work already know you, Bella!"
"But they don't know that we are lovers!"
"Bella, I…"
Holding back the rest of his words, Neron clenched his jaws, rethinking his decisions over and over in his head. Then he huffed and said, "Sure,"
How could he turn her down when she was giving him adorable puppy eyes and sad lips.
Instantly, Bella's face lit up, and she was about to speak when Isuzu walked into the room, his expression serious. But once he saw Bella and Neron seated at the same table, his look shifted into pure joy.
"You two are back together?!" Isuzu let out, unable to tone down the excitement in his voice.
"Yes," Bella mumbled heartily. "We are!"
"That's amazing. Thankfully you guys did. I can not stand this guy snatching me for one more night and making me stay up late, sitting silently beside him!"
"You two had been hanging out for all those nights that I thought he was…"
Biting back the rest of her words, Bella felt weird to say it now that she thought Neron was with other women during the times he started coming home late.
"I am really happy though that you two are back together. How it should be." Isuzu said, feeling better all of sudden from the rage that was eating at him before he walked into the dining room.
Although Neron wanted to focus on the conversation at hand, he couldn't get over the look on Isuzu's face when he first entered the room.
"What is it?" Neron blurted out.
"Huh?" Isuzu muttered, taking his focus off Bella to look at him.
"You looked like you wanted to hurt someone badly when you walked in here. So what is it that you came here about?"
"Oh, right!... Can you step out for a second so we can talk?"
Feeling a sudden sense of uneasiness, Neron woke from his seat and walked toward Isuzu.
As he passed Bella, she couldn't help feeling curious about what had made Isuzu look so disturbed, and her gaze followed them until they left the dining room.
When Isuzu and Neron finally reached his study, he shut the door and then focused on Neron, blurting out, "A wolf is turning humans into werewolves against their will. Do you want to guess who it is?"
When Neron didn't speak and simply frowned at him, Isuzu felt impatient and loudly asked, "Who just lost half of their pack members to death?!"
"You think Damon is trying to rebuild his pack by turning humans into werewolves against their will?" Neron coldly uttered. "That's absurd!"
After so many centuries of having Damon as his enemy, Neron felt disgusted that it was true that he knew Damon too well to suggest that he would do something that low.
"Yes! Think about it, Neron? People… humans started going missing just a few days after you attacked the wolves and killed half of them!" Isuzu stated, his eyes filled with rage and hate.
"And you think Damon is the one doing these kidnappings?" Neron mumbled, feeling a sense of dilemma rising in him.
Hate clawed its way into Isuzu's heart as he lets out, "Yes. A desperate wolf is capable of a lot of things, especially one that just suffered a great loss!"
"The humans are off-limits, and Damon knows that. But your words make sense." Neron said, pausing for a moment as a feeling of reluctance held him captive.
Knowing the weight of his thoughts, Neron took a moment to think his next words thoroughly and then said, "Get a few others to investigate these humans' a*******n, and if Damon is actually behind this hundred percent, I will kill him myself!"
"Okay then. I will get right onto it," Isuzu said.
Even though he dared not speak his thoughts, he was pissed that Neron hadn't killed Damon yet. But he knew the gravity of the entanglement between Neron, Bella, and Damon.
Staring at Neron, Isuzu kept quiet for a while, afraid to speak his thoughts. Then he finally gave in to his curiosity and asked, "Have you reckoned about if the twins are not dragons… like maybe they are… wolves?"
There was a brief pause before Isuzu easily let out, "What if Bella is pregnant for that ass and not you?! Will you… you know… ask her to… you know… or keep them?"
The thought of the twin belonging to Damon's horrified Neron because that would be the first thing he wished not to happen. But he knew that the possibility of them being Damon's still stands.
"Her body, her choice, Isuzu. Even if they are his, Bella is keeping the pregnancy." Neron said, not even hesitating with those words.
At first, Isuzu's face was blank. Then he smirked and chuckled faintly, mumbling, "Well, a dragon raising two wolves… wouldn't that be the perfect example of fate giving us the middle finger and telling us to screw ourselves."
However, when he noticed a numb reaction from King, his expression quickly became serious when Neron said, "You get on finding out what this new threat is, or if it is just Damon being sick in the head. Either way, I need an answer soon because we don't need the risk of humans meddling in our business."