"You're crazy."

"There is no way I'm going to your house."

"No ways, you've lost your mind."

Those are the words that I kept repeating to Damien, who was still trying to persuade me to go spend a few nights in his house. I'll do that in his dreams, not anywhere else. I'm not going to sleep under the same roof as his fiancé. Imagine how guilty I'd feel with her being nice to me, knowing that I've been sleeping with Damien.

I refuse to put her and myself in such an awkward position.

"She is fine with it, I promise. I just want to make sure that you're safe." He pleaded with me, his hands wrapping around my wrists. He shook them as he spoke, making my whole body rock back and forth awkwardly. "Can I not look after my coworker? My friend?" He said, the word friend feeling like ice cold water has been splashed on my back.

Well, shoot.

That hurt more than I would've liked it to. Looks like he's decided to focus on his relationship after all. I smiled and nodded, not knowing what I was nodding at. He smiled back and hugged me quickly, "Great, I'm glad you've agreed to come stay with us. I promise it won't be weird or anything."

He pulled away and stepped back, preparing to speak when for the second time, Sei's deep and loud voice boomed at me behind the two walls. "Human!" He called, making me frown. Was he speaking to me?

Damien looked offended at his tone, making him pick up the remote and lift the metal wall up. He stomped closer to him, making Sei look at him with a face full of amusement. He was sitting up on the bed, probably waiting for me to step closer instead of Damien.

"Who are you calling 'human'?" Damien asked with crossed arms. Sei scoffed and looked back at me and then back at him. "Who's this skinny little thing?" He asked, chuckling deeply.

"Answer me." Damien insisted.

"I will answer to no one, only God." He answered boredly. "Are you God?"

"Considering that I'm in control of the amount of food and water you get daily, I'd like to think I'm your God. Bow down." Damien hissed.

"You little—" Sei growled, standing up and charging to Damien. The chain around his wrist roughly held him back just before he could dive to the glass. I quickly pulled Damien away from the glass, slapping his hard chest. "Stop it! You're provoking him."

"He should stop acting like he's better than us. He's forgetting that he's a prisoner here." Damien growled, though it didn't sound as scary as Sei's growling. Sei sounded like an animal, like a large and dangerous predator.

"I'll kill you!" Sei snarled, pulling on the chain around his wrist. I quickly went to the glass, my attention switching to focus on Sei. "You're hurting yourself. Please calm down." I begged him.

"I'll calm down when his blood stains these floors!" He screeched, his eyes starting to glow red. Oh no, not that again. I turned to Damien, absolutely panicking. "Leave!" I told him.

"What? I'm not leaving you here with him. He's going feral." Damien said to me like I was crazy.

"Listen to her." Sei said, his voice getting deeper.

"Damien!" I begged him, pushing his chest. He glared at Sei before turning on his heels and stepping out quickly. The door closed and I turned to Sei, lifting my hands up in surrender. "He's gone! He's left!" I said, trying to calm him down. He was still roughly pulling at the chains and I was actually scared that he would manage to break them.

What do I do? What do I do? I asked myself in panic

Maybe I should call for security and get them to shoot him with a tranquilizer dart or a tazer. No, I don't want to resort to hurting him. I need to learn to calm him down because this may happen more than once, then what? I'll always have to call security when he loses it? I'll just have to calm him down myself.

"Sei..." I whispered, pressing my hands on the cold glass. His eyes were the bright red I saw when I arrived this morning. His skin seemed to be getting sparklier too, like there were thousands of tiny lights glowing on his flesh. He looked at me, huffing continuously. He yanked on the chain again and I gasped when he ripped it out of the wall.

I stood back, preparing to bolt out of the building if he tried to break the glass. He just stood there, his shoulders and chest rising and falling from the heavy breathes he was taking. His muscles were tensed, series of veins bulging out his arms and his hands. His lips were slightly parted and more of his hair was getting whiter. The colour was now obvious, no longer hidden by his long blue curls.

"Please stop... He's gone." I reassured him softly, still holding my hands up protectively. We didn't say anything afterwards, just stared at each other. I looked at him with fear in my eyes and he looked at me with nothing but wrath and rage.

He relaxed his shoulders and looked around the room, almost like he was looking for something or someone. After a few seconds, he sat down on the floor and ripped the rest of the chain from his wrist like it was nothing. I watched him toss it to the side and it landed on the floor with a painfully loud clunk.

After catching my breath and calming down, I slowly turned around and went to my chair, wanting to sit down before I collapsed from shock. "Human," he called again, this time softly. I sat down and hummed, letting him know that I was listening.

"Before that nutsack interrupted me I was calling to ask for something flat and thin, like a card."

I turned to look at him in question. What the heck did he want with that?

"I will give it back to you before you leave." He said with a straight face.

"What do you need to do with it?"

He was silent for a while, seeming to be contemplating on whether he should tell me or not.

"There's something stuck between my teeth."

I stared at him. Are you serious? Does he really think I'll believe that? I've heard of people escaping jail with cards. I'm not falling for it.

"How about I just get you a toothpick or some dental floss?"

"A piece of wood or string isn't enough." He said with a frown.

"A toothpick should work." I told him.

"A toothpick is for teeth... I have goddamn canines." He grumbled, opening his mouth and baring his teeth at me. My mouth dropped open at what I saw. His teeth were sharp and his two upper canines were ten times bigger than his other teeth. Those were the teeth of a big cat, like a lion or tiger. They were not human teeth.

"How do those fit in your mouth!?" I asked him loudly. "How do you talk straight?! How is your face so perfectly slim?!"

He looked amused by my reaction but didn't laugh. "Just give me the card." He said, rolling his eyes.

I turned around and grabbed my purse, digging through it for a card. The thinnest one I had was my drivers license. I wiped it with sanitary wet wipes before standing up and heading to the glass wall. "Wait a minute..." I said, staring at the broken chain. If I let the wall up, he could get out and hurt me. Is that a risk worth taking for just something stuck between his teeth?

Maybe he's trying to trick me.

He looked at the chain and rolled his eyes. "I'm not going to hurt you." He said.

"Why should I believe you?"

He deadpanned, "I don't know. Why do you believe a person when they speak?"

"Trust..."

"Then trust me." He snorted.

"You almost killed me!" I said, referring to a few minutes ago. When his eyes were glowing red. They were back to grey again. Clearly, they became red whenever he was angry.

"Correction, I almost killed your skinny friend."

"I would've been next."

"You can't prove that statement." We both glared at each other.

"Promise that you won't try anything stupid." I asked him, holding the remote tightly.

"I promise." He said with a smirk.

That was a bit too easy...

I believed him anyways, pressing the button and letting the wall slide up. I watched him carefully. He didn't move from where he was sitting but his smirk never faded. He held his hand out, wanting me to put the card there. I slowly walked to him, watching him like a hawk.

I got close enough to drop my license on his hand. He looked down at my lips, then back at my eyes. His smirk then grew. "You smell like roses." He mumbled, that one sentence making me think back to last night in the shower. He winked at me, his eyes seeming to be traveling to different parts of my body. His gaze was burning through my clothes and into my skin, making me think about the burns I felt after those cold lips kissed me.

I dropped the card and quickly stood up, clearing my throat. "I need that before my shift ends so make sure you give it back." I told him, walking away. His next statement made me look at him in shock.

"How cold," he said, referring to my sudden change in emotion. "Just like those lips on your skin last night."

H-how does he know that?

"You..."

"Akielia," Damien suddenly called me. I hadn't even heard the door open. He walked in with a bunch of security guards, around six of them. "I came as soon as I could with security. Is he still trying to hurt you?"

As soon as you could? Dude, it's been over ten minutes.

Damien looked towards Sei, his eyes widened when he saw his chain broken and both walls up. He quickly snatched the remote from me and closed the glass wall, looking at me like I've lost my mind. "How careless can you be? You saw him trying to murder us!"

"I saw him trying to murder you, but I've calmed him down as you see." I told him and the security guards. "Thanks for checking in guys, we're fine." I said, wanting them to leave. I still needed to talk to Sei about how he knew what happened last night. It couldn't have been him. He's been here the whole time. He had to be.

It couldn't have been him.

I looked at him, seeing him shoving my driver's license between his large teeth. I turned back to the guards who looked shocked from seeing Sei's sharp canines. Damien also looked at him in surprise. "Okay, as you see I'm fine. Please leave."

Damien looked back down at me. "Oh, okay. Let's go then." He said, pulling me with him.

"What? Why?"

"What do you mean? Our shifts are over. Let's go get lunch then drive to your place."

"I still need to talk to..."

"Tomorrow, we have to go before it gets too dark." He was too strong, easily leading me towards the exit. I guess I'll have to figure this Sei thing out tomorrow. Tonight, I'll have other problems to deal with.

Like officially meeting Damien's soon-to-be wife.

Lord, give me strength.