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Kai stiffened as his eyes meet hers. It was perfect as for one second she was the one whom was locked in his gaze. But then of course that moment pass and his attention shifted to something else that was bothering him. He didn't move away so Yuliya continued to straighten his hair. Her nails grazed his scalp slightly and he shivered like a fish fresh out of water.

Yuliya was really going to struggle if she wanted to keep a good hold of him. She came to terms with this as they sat together like this with her allowed to touch him however she liked. His veins strained strongly in the back of his hands as he caught her hand while Candida waltz back into the room with a sickly looking boy behind her who looked a little too young to be there.

Candida seemed a little miffed to see how closely Kai was holding her. He seemed to react quickly as he stood up with a strange grunt which put distance between the two of them. Yuliya sighed as she had wanted to continue.

Yuliya knew better than believing things would stay good for her for long. But she couldn't help scanning and cranning her head around every corner to make sure there were no security cameras or the flare of a camera phone light. Here there was Kai holding her hand while Candida was keeping a lookout. Yuliya saw in her frenzy that Mario was in a suite with both of his hands around the backside of car models. He didn't care about his behavior at all while she was making such pains.

How could a man like that be in love with her? As always, it was too good to be true. Nothing good ever happened to her.

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"Kai! I'll make sure you regret every breath your breathing now. Are you listening to the words coming out of my mouth?"

Kai luxuriated in the jacuzzi, it was nice to be in his natural state for once as he listened to the voicemail again. His tail spun the water in a little mini whirlpool so he could get the entirety of the soap he had used off of his body. He had been hiding for so long that it was nice for once not to pretend like his tail didn't exist.

But for once he wanted to see her reaction to his strange adaptations to her as mermaids still didn't want to exist in the human conscious. His kind were of course still in fiction and in classified naval handbooks. But in real life, Yuliya would most likely scream.

And he kind of wanted her to, just a little bit.

His eyes fluttered shut as he thought of Yuliya's ministrations to straighten his hair as her nails scratched against his scalp softly. Kai wasn't really a touchy feely person who even liked someone outside of his kind to brush against him. However, with Yuliya strangely he had been more than willing to let her do a lot more than pull his hair while he pushed her to her limits. He wanted her to lose control and rip his hair out bloody while she lost all semblance of that control she was barely truly even having. He wanted her thriving while she was catching her breath after she only smelled like them.