Kidnapped by a Dragon Billionaire - Chapter 88

There is a new guy in Zi Mei’s classes and he is annoying her by choosing to sit next to her. He has once again chosen the seat next to her in her second class of the day. When she told him to stop following her, he rudely told her that he has no interest in her at all.

“Please, don’t flatter yourself, I have no interest in you at all,” he told her insolently.

“Good! I have no interest in you at all either. So please go sit somewhere else,” she retorted, glowering at him.

“Well, I like this spot and you have no right to tell me where I can or can’t sit,” he drawled. Then he leaned back and propped both his feet on the table again.

Zi Mei jumped up. She looked around the classroom.

Somehow, while arguing with this rude asshole, the others had come in and filled in all the other spots. Even Darren. He is sitting a few rows behind. He did not even stop to say hello to her when he came in, which was unusual. She try to catch his eye but he was not looking at her or maybe he was avoiding her. She is not too sure about that.

Annoyed that she has to once again sit next to this insolent rude guy, she sat back down and huffed.

“Oh? Changed your mind? Decided you prefer sitting next to me after all?” Damon King asked, smirking at her smugly.

“Just leave me alone, Damon King,” she told him. She sat as far from him as possible and shifted so that she is angled facing away from him.

When Professor Josie comes in, Damon King swung his feet down and greeted her loudly as if he knew her. He praised her for a research paper she had published and more or less repeated the same line he fed Professor Meng.

“Well, welcome to our college Damon,” Professor Josie replied, pleased that a student had read her research paper.

“Suck up,” Zi Mei mumbled under her breath. Nothing she hates more than those students who suck up to the professors but actually don’t even do their assignments and barely passed their exams. She is certain this Damon King is one of those kind of students.

The same thing happened for the next three classes. It would seem Damon King had taken the exact same classes as her and had chosen to sit right next to her in every single class. By the time lunch comes around, she was glad to run out of the class and head over to the canteen.

Sitting next to the annoying Damon King was torturous. He tends to lean his legs against his table and then jiggle his legs, causing his table to shake which then shook her table too as it was adjacent to his. Some of her notes were filled with wobbly handwriting no thanks to Damon King. She had hissed at him to stop it but each time she did that, he would jiggle his legs even more.

At the canteen, she searched for Darren. At this rate, she will take her chances with Darren still being a demon than having to face the annoying Damon King. When she saw him sitting by himself at a corner, she made a beeline towards him but of course, at this right moment, she walked right into a hard wall and almost bounced against it to fall if not for the ‘wall’ grabbing her arms.

“Whoa…watch where you’re walking Tan,” the wall said. It was the annoying deep husky voice belonging to Damon King. He is as tall as Thorin but bulkier and more muscled. Bumping into him was like walking into a wall, literally.

She pulled her arms free and took a step back to look up at Damon King’s reddish brown eyes. They were filled with amusement and arrogance.

“Stay out of my way King,” she said, using his last name just like how he had used her last name. They are not friends so they are definitely not on first name basis.

He drew up to his full height, towering over her and looked down at her.

“You are the one who walked into me, what an odd way to apologise,” he remarked pointedly.

“You stepped in front of me!” Zi Mei spluttered. How dared he??? It wasn’t as if she sought him out to walk into him on purpose.

“Nope, I don’t think so,” he fired back, crossing his arms on his chest.

“You are so full of yourself, King! Just get out of my way,” she told him before side stepping him and walking towards Darren. But after her altercation with Damon King, her best friend was no where in sight. Not even at the table he was sitting at. She searched the whole canteen and even the outdoor seatings but couldn’t find him.

Zi Mei wondered why Darren was avoiding her. This was so strange. She took out her phone to text him only to find that he had texted her.

“Mei, I think we need a break, I can’t talk to you at this moment, so let’s just cool it for now,” he texted her.

What does he mean? She is perplexed. What had supposedly happened for him to need to ‘cool’ it? What does he mean ‘a break’? It wasn’t as if they are dating. Do best friends take ‘a break’ from each other?

She found a chair outside and sat down, staring at Darren’s text in confusion. Was it due to the demon attack? Had some things changed because of that? It looks like she will have to navigate through it all to see what had changed.

Zi Mei was glad that she didn’t have the same classes with Damon King for her next two classes after lunch. It was blissful to finally sit with someone who doesn’t jiggle the table or prop their feet on the table before the professor comes in.

After the last class, she walked out alone. It is lonely without Darren but she will get used to it. Maybe it is time she makes friends with her other course mates. She realised she had always stuck with Darren in the past that she did not even try to mix with her other course mates.

As she was walking to the bus station, a car stopped next to her and honked. She stopped short and stared at the heavily tinted windows. This looks like Thorin Loong’s car. Now what?

Thorin Loong, looking healthy and uninjured, alighted from the other side of the car and opened the back passenger door for her. He is dressed immaculately in his crisp white shirt and designer navy blue suit.

“Come, let me take you home,” he offered, smiling at her gallantly.

He looked good and in tip top shape. Her heart thumped at the sight of him and at his intimate smile. Then she shushed her own heart and reminded herself that she has decided not to be involved with him. A few of her classmates walked by, whispering and giggling when they noticed Thorin Loong standing there. A few of them shot her envious looks.

“Mr Loong, I think we should stop seeing each other,” she told him quietly, ignoring the gaggle of girls that have gathered nearby observing them. She could hear them gasping at what she said and then they erupted into more whispering.

Thorin Loong was unperturbed. He slid his hands into his pockets casually and tilted his head slightly, looking at her earnestly.

“Really? Are you breaking up with me?” he asked coolly. This elicited more shocked gasps from the bystanders and more whispering.

“Breaking up? Wait, we were never together…what are you talking about??” Zi Mei had stepped closer to him and hissed this at him under her breath. She doesn’t need those gawping girls to hear their conversation. This is not some TV drama for them to watch.

“My dear Zi Mei, you can’t do that to me, you used me and now you want to leave me? I can give you everything,” Thorin Loong said out loud dramatically. Another round of gasps and whispering.

“Mister Loong, stop it!” she is now so flustered, she grabbed his arm to drag him into his car but he is resisting her.

“Let me take you home,” he murmured into her ears. “Or we can continue this charade for the benefit of your classmates,”

“Ugh. Fine! Take me home,” she hissed in response. She slid into his car. Thorin Loong bowed to the bystanders, eliciting a round of giggles before he slid in next to her and closed the door.

“Do you have to do that?!? What was that?!?” Zi Mei asked him angrily the moment the car pulled out into the traffic. She doesn’t care if Thorin Loong’s driver can hear her.

“I am merely taking you home, that’s all,” Thorin Loong said infuriatingly coolly.

What is wrong with all the men around her today? First there’s the annoying new guy. Then Darren was avoiding her and now this CEO-dragon-man is annoying her too. She huffed and sat back against the luxuriously soft leather seats, crossing her arms.

“Well, at least explain why are things so different when I came back,” she said.. Might as well ask him now. “Also, did we have any babies together?”