Page 17 of Secretary's Obsession

The damn fanning demon was back.How did I end up with you?

Lucky, I guess. Anyway. We need lots of similar things to what George has.

Scott wanted to argue, only that would be useless when he wanted George to feel at home in his place. He ran through everything he had seen at George’s home. Pulling up one of the main superstores, he started adding stuff to his basket.

Lost in what he was doing, he never considered where he was or that he hadn’t bothered to get out of the car until the driver interrupted him.

“Sir, we’re here.”

“Yes. Thank you.” Blushing, he finished what he was doing. Paying for what was in his cart after adding his address and paying extra for same day delivery. He then sent an email to the concierge of his apartment block to advise to expect the delivery, only then did he close his laptop and put it away.

He nodded his thanks and exited the car, going into the building, his thoughts switched to work. Up on the top floor, he’d barely set his bag down on his desk when Luka, Dakata’s brother, whohad also recently started working for Dakata, appeared. As tall and wide as Dakata, his dark hair was cut short, accentuating a strong jawline. He was attractive, but in a more understated way than his brothers and sister.

“Have you seen Christa?” he asked without preamble, tugging at the black silk tie he wore with his crisp, white shirt, the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, revealing tattoos.

Scott glanced at the office door that Luka had just come out of. “She’s not here?” He checked his watch and ran through what appointments she had for the day in his head. “She has nothing in her diary until two pm.” Christa, though flighty at times, was usually at work by now.

“No, she skipped out of an important meeting last evening. I’ve tried calling her but all I’m getting is her voice messaging system. When did you last see her?”

Scott hesitated, recalling Christa’s behavior when they had gone to the forest. “She came with me yesterday to the forest—”

“What, Christa willingly went into a forest? Why? Is she with Dakata?”

The questions were fired at Scott without Luka giving him a chance to answer.

“Did they have a planned meeting about the latest band we’ve signed? Or was it about the venue issues we’re having in Paris?”

He continued on, so Scott ran through his own list of things that he needed to do while waiting out Luka.

“Are you listening to me?” Luka snapped, his demon flaring in his eyes.

“Christa willingly went into the forest. I don’t know why. No, she was not with Dakata, that I am aware of. Dakata has agreed to the terms for the new signing, and I have sent the contracts out. Paris, Merihem, is dealing with.” He met Luka’s gaze, unfazed. “I think that was everything. Now, if you don’t mind, I have a list of my own to get through.”

Luka looked him up and down, frowning. “There’s something different about you.” His nose wrinkled as he stepped closer. “You smell different.” His eyes widened when they dropped to the collar of his shirt.

“I have a blissful one.” His demon danced around at how those words sounded.

Luka gasped, running a hand through his hair. “You, too.” He looked around like someone might jump on him any second. “Fuck, it’s like a contagion. Spreading!”

He took a step back from Scott, who rolled his eyes.

“Yes, well, it’s a wonderful thing to find the other half of your soul,” he murmured, recalling how gorgeous his bear looked naked, sweaty, and covered in cum after they had claimed each other. There was no feeling like it in the world. The connectionhe’d never felt with his family, he had discovered with George. A family who would quickly find out that Scott had a blissful one with how demons gossiped.

He would need to ring them, and that filled him with dread at what they might want. Luka, moving further away from him, snapped Scott out of his thoughts.

Back were the wide eyes. “Whatever, I just need to speak to Christa. If she turns up, tell her it’s urgent.” On that he stalked off, heading down the corridor to where he had an office, only once looking back with a strange expression Scott didn’t bother to try to interpret. His mind had already shifted gears back to George and the need to find out who the paramedic was.

He sat at his desk and made a point of checking that he’d dealt with all of his work-related things first because he took his job seriously. George would get that, right?

Our bear will have other things to worry about, like how anal retentive you are over everything being in the right place,his demon said sarcastically.

Scott took a deep breath, counted to ten, then replied,order is not a bad thing!

He opened up a search bar on his computer and made a purposeful effort to block his demon. He had some contacts, because of his family, in shady places, Scott had no call to use them before. For George, he would cross the line he’d drawn when he’d left the demon realm.

Two calls, and he had the information he needed on the paramedic and could search to see if he had any worrying connections to shifters who dealt in sperm. An hour later, Scott sat back, frowning at the screen. From his searches, the paramedic didn’t appear to have anything to hide. He’d been on the job for three weeks and had trained for the last three years to be able to deliver emergency care.

Staring at the screen at the innocuous human, Scott had two options: believe everything he had found or go and find the guy andquestion him in person. By his family’s standard, that meant intimidation and threats to glean the truth.

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