Salighayan; A Taboo Love Story

Chapter 7

~ Princess Mylie’s PoV

It has been almost two weeks now and all the while I and Selena were planning on how best to get the pearl from whichever spirit.

The first thing we did was identify all the spirits and their domain, there are five spirits;

The spirit of the north, lives in very warm waters and is known with the rock element, The spirit of the east, lives in the normal ordinary waters and is known with the nature element, The spirit of the south, lives in very cold waters and is known with the ice element, the spirit of the west, lives in stormy waters and is known for the wind element, then The spirit of the center, responsible for maintaining the balance.

And all through these long weeks I have gone to the surface in search for my human crush both day and night (in case I get lucky again to see him) but then all was to no avail.

I longed for him the more as I couldn’t see him and that only put urgency in my search for the pearl, right now I had maps spawn all over my table, we needed to pinpoint the exact locations where the spirits are and then try to figure out which spirit was with the pearl.

As it was going, it started looking more and more likely that I would have to visit them all one after the other ay least till I got whoever is currently with it.

Then would come the aspect of tricking it out of the hands of said spirit.

I heard a knock on my door and almost had a seizure, the maps and books were laid all about, if it was mother then most definitely she would figure out what I’m up to just by looking at them.

As I rushed to pack up, I heard Selena’s voice from behind the door, I paused in my rushing to listen well and sure enough I heard her again.

“Princess are you in?” she asked.

Usually she doesn’t knock before entering so I felt something could be going on, “Selena? What’s wrong? I’m in” I called out back to her in a whisper.

Selena burst through and started giggling as she jumped on my bed, that’s when I knew it had been a prank, I rolled my eyes as I sat back down heavily and heaved a sign of relief.

“You do know how to give someone a heart attack, hope you know that?” I said to her, my mood hasn’t yet adjusted to her jovial one.

“Oh c’mon princess, you can take a joke can’t you?” she said smiling so widely that is affected me and I finally smiled along with her.

“Oh I can, though not when things are this serious” I said to my best friend, then she adjusted and sat upright.

“I have news” she said suddenly turning serious, my ears perked up at that and I became anxious because of her sudden mood change.

“Good news I hope” I said to her so she could continue, she took a deep breath first then started.

“I have been able to deduce the location of three out of the five spirits of the ocean, that is the good news, the somewhat bad news is that there really isn’t a fixed place for the remaining two, they are nomads, The spirit of the west moves all along the west side trailing after storms or leading it so to find it we have to find storms, while The spirit of balance moves about freely being only where it is needed at a point in time and moving on right after” Selena explained to me.

“Whoa for a spirit associated with the center point it does move around a lot” I said frowning, in my thoughts I started wishing and praying for the pearl to be with one of the three with fixed and known location, that will really save us a whole lot of trouble.

I got up and started packing up, “Are we going now?” Selena asked me and I could see the joyous glint was back in her eye.

“What?! Heck no, I have to get an excuse first that wouldn’t make mother suspicious, once granted we would move, I’m only packing up should in case mother or anyone else comes in, finding all these would be incriminating in itself” I told my best friend.

Selena looked sad for a few seconds then she joined me in packing up and we talked some more on how to go by doing things when we confront the spirits.

An elaborate scheme was in place, a huge prank that is likely to cost me everything and cost Selena her life should we get caught, but if I was to be a goddess it would be the goddess of schemes and pranks so I know we can’t caught.

I hope we won’t get caught.

*

~ Mike’s PoV

It is my third week as co-CEO of my fathers company, it was his father’s, and his father’s father’s, and one day it will solely be mine.

Unknown to me another place had been built in the south side of town for the split part of the company to have it’s offices and conduct it’s activities.

It was about thirty-five stories tall and has a penthouse (which has been my home for a while now as I threw myself fully into work)

I had those that worked for me, we had done a bit of recruitment and transfers from the main branch to fill up the core seats.

I had asked for a majority in vampires rather than humans, I don’t know just how well I could keep my thirst for fresh human blood in check and it was better not to tempt it, I don’t want to have ‘Eats his employees' as one of my traits.

Seeing as it was the south side there were more shape shifters present here so I had to recruit quite a few as well; some eagle folk (who turned out to be awesome business handlers), some coyotes (they were rather good at convincing people to venture into business), some bears and a few jaguars (these managed the maintenance of the whole company alongside vamps)

These people were true to a fault and did their work diligently, they were glad that such a huge company brought its branch to their side which will open up quite a lot of opportunities for them and theirs too.

But then there were those we’re having trouble with, mainly the wolves because they were the thriving business here before we cane and now they see us as a competition.

There was a skyscraper directly across ours that belonged to the wolves, it was about three floors shorter and that in itself was where the trouble started.

I could handle them though, I know almost all there is to know about there business, and I have enough dirt on them to bury an actual bear because the first thing I did was hire a couple of PIs (private investigators) to dig up dirt on the most prominent of them and then some.

Turned vamps makes the best PIs (for those that choose that as their profession) as they could be anywhere for a long while without anyone being the wiser, they have no smell and could sneak up on shadows.

I had decided to make the very best of being here and not even them werewolves could stop me.

A young lad rushed in to disrupt my thoughts, only after he was in did he realized he hadn’t knocked and had just barged in.

He looked back towards the door and I was sure he was wishing for time to rewind so he could correct his mistake.

It wasn’t his fault though, I am the one who needs a PA or secretary or maybe just a maid even, but I haven’t found anyone suitable yet.

“Yes? Go on” I said to the lad who cooled a bit at my dismissal of his wrong doing.

“Uhm Sir, here are the files on the finalized deals with the tech companies, we were able to recruit three out of four, the fourth remained with the wolves” he said to me.

Three out of four was still a win for me, but I was annoyed with how the wolves were turning it all to a competition, they hadn’t thought of recruiting tech companies till I started the process now they stopped me from getting all four.

“Fine” I answered the lad as he dropped the files with me, I’d check them later, “Is there something else?” I asked when the lad refused to leave.

“Uhm, the construction workers at our building site are having trouble with the wolves, they’re hindering them from continuing with work” he said.

“What is your name?” I asked the lad who seemed surprised that I had used that to answer such a dire matter.

“Uhm, Damien Sir” he answered, I stood up slowly and moved to get my suit from the rack I hung it on, he quickly came and assisted me in putting it on.

“You seem like a bright young lad, next time though, lead with this kind of update” I said to him and headed out with him in tow behind me.

“Yyes Sir” he answered, I liked him, he reminded me a bit of my sister Michelle.

My face was stern as I exited the elevator and moved across the lobby, immediately after sighting me and my expression, two buffed up vamps, two bears and two jaguars followed me.

I entered my car and my driver started the car, as we moved I saw my convoy follow up and the thought that came up from my mind was ‘some werewolves are about to get their asses kicked'