Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire - Chapter 60

Zi Mei is attending classes for her Art and Design course like any regular college student with her friend Darren. She doesn’t know that her memory has been wiped and ‘reprogrammed’ to the current reality.

She still believed that she has a crush on her best friend, Darren, and is trying her best to hide her feelings from him. She did feel sad when Darren revealed that he went on a date with a girl but he did not divulge the identity of the girl to her.

During break time that day, although she tried to question him in many different ways, he refused to budge.

“Come on Darren, just a hint, a tiny little hint, I just want to know, it’s not like it’s some big huge secret,” she said after they had eaten and are just chatting amiably about their subjects and professors. She had waited till Darren was relaxed and laughing over her jokes about her professors when she pounced and asked him about his date last night.

Even though Darren was caught unawares, he didn’t give up his secret easily.

“Give us some time okay? It was only a first date,” he said mysteriously. “Who knows, she might not agree to a second date,”

She rolled her eyes. Who wouldn’t agree to a second date with Darren? He is good looking and kind and the nicest person she knew. He is also caring to a fault and always took care of her. Like a big brother takes care of his little sister.

“Fine, keep it a secret then, see if I care,” she pouted, crossed her arms and turned away.

“Mei, don’t be such a kid,” Darren admonished her, not in the least fooled by her fake tantrum. He knew her all too well.

She turned back to him and sighed.

“I don’t see what’s the big deal, like you said, it was a first date, so why are you so secretive about it anyway?” she asked.

He merely shrugged and kept quiet. She decided not to pursue it further after that. He will tell her in due time anyway.

At the end of the last class, Zi Mei hurriedly packed her bag and went out. She can’t wait to go home, kick back and relax. It has been a long day. As she hurried out of class, she saw a large number of students grouped together whispering while looking at something near the school hall. Curious, she went over to look to.

“What’s happening?” she asked one of the female students who was giggling and craning her neck to see whatever it is everyone was trying to see.

“It seems that the handsome CEO of a large company is here to recruit some interns,” she told Zi Mei.

“Oh? What’s the big deal? Why would a CEO do that? Don’t they like have secretaries to do that?” she asked. The girl had turned away and ignored her, still tiptoeing and craning her neck to look over the heads of the growing crowd.

Zi Mei shrugged. She has no interest in such things. So what if some handsome CEO is here? She turned away and slowly trudged down the hallway. She wondered where Darren is. Does he want to walk to the bus stop together?

She took out her phone to text him as she walked.

“Dare, wanna take the bus together?” she texted.

“Hang on, I can’t get past this crowd, have they gone mad?” he replied.

Oh right. Darren’s class is on the other side of the campus and the crowd of students were gathered right in the middle, blocking the pathway.

“Okay, I’ll wait for you then,” she said. She went to the stairway, still scrolling through her phone and as she took a step, she realised she had misjudged the step and she is stepping on mid-air.

Zi Mei could fell herself falling as she flung her phone off to grab the railing but gravity was harsh as it pulled her and she waited for impact but instead, a pair of strong hands grabbed her in the nick of time. She stood suspended there for a moment, blood gushing in her head, her heart racing a million beats by the second, her breath coming out in pants. The hands pulled her back to safety.

“You ought to be careful, Lil Zi,” a deep voice told her. He released her almost immediately after he made sure she is safe and far from the steps. She turned around and stared at the person who saved her from falling down the staircase and all thoughts fled her mind.

She is staring at the most good-looking man she has ever laid eyes on. Deep dark bottomless pools for eyes, thick luscious hair, a tall, high nose and cheekbones that supermodels would die for. She gasped ever so slight.

“Wa…how…” she stammered mindlessly. She vaguely remembered him calling her Lil Zi but somehow, she couldn’t get her mouth to work or her mind for that matter. His dazzling good looks are making mush of her brains.

The gorgeous man curled his lips, it was either a half smile or a sneer, she doesn’t know and then he nodded curtly at her.

“Well then, be careful,” he said and then he turned and walked away. She stared at his broad shoulders encased in a perfectly tailored expensive-looking suit.

He doesn’t look like a student. He looks too old to be a student. And definitely not a lecturer either. She wondered who is he. She stood there staring until he turned a corner and disappear from sight.

After a while, she realised her mouth is still agape and she closed it. Damn. It is not everyday that you get saved by the most perfect specimen of a man like a damsel in distress being saved by a knight in shining armour.

She suddenly remembered she had dropped her phone. She went to search for it and as she was looking around the floor, a pair of men’s feet encased in expensive leather shoes stood before her. She followed it up to it’s owner and gasped.

It was the handsome man who saved her just minutes ago. When did he come back? Did he come back to talk to her? Her pulse started racing and she could feel a blush rushing up her face. Damn her infinite shyness with men other than Darren. Then a thought occurred to her. She clearly remembered him calling her ‘Lil Zi’.

“Why did you call me Lil Zi earlier?” she blurted out, perplexed. It wasn’t her full name and no one has ever called her that so maybe he had mistaken her as someone else?

“Oh did I?” the man frowned. Even when he frowned, he looked gorgeous. It almost made her sigh dreamily but she stopped herself. She should really stop ogling at this older handsome man. He looks to be in his 30s at least.

“Here, I think you dropped this,” he handed her phone to her. It was badly cracked and damaged. “It fell right down to the ground floor,” he told her.

“Thank you…Mister….?” she took the phone slowly, hoping to at least get his name.

“Oh, I’m Thorin Loong and you are?” he asked in return.

She stuck out her hand.

“I am Zi Mei,” she smiled shyly at him. He was looking at her strangely.

Did she have something on her face? She was tempted to wipe her face but didn’t want to be too obvious in front of this handsome Thorin Loong. Even his name sounded so gorgeous.

He slowly reached out and shook her hand.

Suddenly she had an image of them kissing passionately, his hand inside her clothes, touching her breasts and his perfectly sculpted bare chest was pressing against her. Their bodies were entwined on a luxuriously large bed. She gasped and snatched her hand back from his. She gaped at him, blushing a tomato red.

What was that?? Did she just get a lusty dirty fantasy of the man she just met? Yet the tastes, the smell, the feelings, the pleasure felt so real!

She stared at him and he raised an eyebrow at her and suddenly, he no longer looked like a stranger. He looked familiar. He felt familiar. He filled a space within her. He is like someone she didn’t know she missed dearly until she saw him.

“Who ….are….you…..” she whispered to him.