Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire - Chapter 64

Zi Mei was following Darren as he walked towards her house. He had sniffed around her house before knocking on the door. She had initially wanted to jump on him and give him a jump scare but stopped when he started sniffing around, like a dog would sniff the air if they caught a whiff of something. So, she hid behind a lamppost to see what he does next.

He stuck a finger through the louvre of her outer wooden door and then it impossibly lengthened and snaked down inside, presumably to go under the inner door inside. The sight of this made her skin crawl.

Zi Mei shivered as fear enveloped her. Whatever that thing is, it is NOT Darren. It looked like Darren and possibly sounded like him. But no human, much less Darren, could do what this thing just did. She slowly took a few steps back from the lamppost and walked slowly backwards away from the street. Then making sure that Darren is still engrossed with his finger still through her door, she turned and ran.

She doesn’t even have her phone with her to call for help. But who does she call for help? The police? What does she tell the police? Help, my best friend’s finger can elongate like a snake and go inside my house? No, they will think she is crazy. She ran as far and as fast as she could until she was a few streets away and panting heavily. Her heart is thumping so rapidly from fear and the adrenaline rush, she could even hear it thumping loudly in her head.

She looked around her. Fuck it. She had ran to Darren’s house automatically. She is supposed to be running AWAY from him, not towards his house! She backed away from his house and turned around.

Her legs are now all rubbery.

She is still catching her breath.

She can’t run anymore.

She fast walked away, heading to the nearest bus stop she can think of and hoping Darren or that thing that looks like Darren is not on his way back right now. Fleetingly, she wondered what had happened to the real Darren but her brain is still trying to process what she just saw.

What was that thing? What can do what it did? Then she got a flash of an image of Darren’s face all twisted and eyes bloodshot over her and choking her. She gasped.

What was that??

All this felt familiar. Another strong sense of deja vu hit her.

She reached the bus stop and just in time a bus arrived and she quickly hop on. Just as the bus pulled away, she saw Darren walking towards the street where his house is. She slide down under her chair, hoping he didn’t see her on the bus.

What is she going to do now? What is that thing that looked like Darren? What does it want from her?

When the bus stopped near the mall, she got down and hurried inside the mall. She needed to get a replacement phone fast and then call Jazzmine and Sheena. She doesn’t know who else to call. Certainly not Darren!

After buying a new phone, the latest model with all the new technology according to the salesman, she inserted her SIM card into it and turned it on. The salesman had assured her that there is at least 70% battery charge in the new phone for customers who wanted to use it immediately after they bought the new phone.

The moment the phone turned on and her line went back up. A whole host of messages started coming in. There were also missed call notifications. There were a lot of messages and calls from Darren. She didn’t read the messages. There were a few messages from Sheena and Jazzmine.

She called Sheena.

“Hey, Sheena, I just saw the weirdest thing,” she said the moment Sheena picked up.

“Mei! Darren was frantically looking for you earlier, were you ghosting him because you found out I went on a date with him last night?” Sheena said.

So, it was Sheena! Darren was dating Sheena. But wait, she must not get distracted. Somehow, finding out that Darren was dating Sheena did not matter anymore. She was not even pissed that they had went out behind her back when all four of them, Sheena, Jazzmine, Darren and her are best friends. Now, she has more important things on her mind. Like the fact that Darren’s finger can stretch and slither inside her door like some snake.

She shivered at the thought.

How do you tell one of your best friends that your other best friend is not human and has a rubbery finger that can stretched very far?

“Mei? Are you still there? Are you really pissed that we are dating?” Sheena was asking.

Zi Mei still doesn’t know what to say. How to tell Sheena that Darren is acting strange?

“Ah…Sheena…was Darren acting strange in any way in your date last night?” she opted to ask instead.

“Strange? No, he was just…Darren. Why? Did he say something to you about last night? What is it?” Sheena sounded curious, not even concerned.

“Oh, ah, like maybe his fingers…did you notice his fingers?” she asked, trying to find a way to ask Sheena without alarming her.

“His fingers? Zi Mei! Well, if you must know, he is rather skilled in using his fingers, erm, down there, he got me so wet…” Sheena giggled.

Zi Mei wanted to reach through the phone and strangle Sheena. She didn’t want to get the low down on their sex life! But wait…they only had their first date last night and already went so far?

“You had sex on your first date?” she blurted out, amazed.

She knows Sheena is rather open and has had many sexual partners but to jump into bed with Darren, their best friend, on their very first date. It is quite jarring.

Sheena giggled. “If you could call it our first date,” she demurred.

What? They’ve been dating a while?

“Wait, you’ve been dating for a long time?” Zi Mei asked, now utterly distracted.

“We sort of hook up a few months back but at that time, we didn’t make any commitments, it was more of a friends with benefit sort of thing and we will hook up every once in a while, you know, to let off steam,” Sheena said.

Zi Mei doesn’t know. She doesn’t ‘let off steam’ by jumping into bed with her best friend. Here she was worrying about destroying the friendship with Darren if she confessed her crush to him and Sheena was already having sex with him like it was nothing.

But she is letting Sheena distracting her from the actual troubling thing.

“Sheena, I am being serious, was anything strange about Darren? Like bloodshot eyes maybe?” she asked, remembering the image that flashed in her mind earlier.

“Mei, what’s wrong? No, he didn’t have bloodshot eyes. He was perfectly normal, he is as Darren as Darren can be,” Sheena said.

Her phone started beeping while she was talking to Sheena. She realised it was another call coming in. The caller ID stated it was Darren.

What should she do now?