Chapter 357 - The Forbidden wine (1/2)
She planned it down to the last detail. She was after all a sophisticated creature that was better than the human she was toying with. The goal was not just victory, it was to win the perfect victory.
With that view in mind she set her scene, she chose her clothes with care, applied her makeup with a practiced hand, and let a bit more of her glamour slip.
Her skin became seductively iridescent as she let more of her true self show. Her claws, horns, and teeth remained masked and she nodded at the finished work in the mirror.
She didn't bother to check the sleeping figure, nothing had changed, there was no masking it if he was awake. Taking the bottle of wine, a brand she had noticed Lei Zhao loved, she walked out of her room.
The cool rays of the early evening sun suffused the house with a warm glow, Yue Yan marched through the house regally, carefully. Strutting through the rooms as if she was a queen and this was her domain, she hungered for that power and when she dispatched Yan Mei it would be.
She walked to the back quarters and dismissed everyone. From the housekeeper to her own live-in nurse, everyone was dismissed with a few curt instructions.
Like so much sheepishly they disbanded, almost catatonic in their need to do as she d.e.s.i.r.ed. A little push of compulsion into her words had them forgetting that she was not the lady of the house, that she was just a guest and had no right to order them around.
However, she wasn't doing it out of the goodness of her heart to spare them, she had half a mind to compel them to fight to the death among each other, the power just boiling under her skin almost demanded it. But she really didn't need them there, only the major players would witness this stage of the game.
When she was satisfied that the last person had driven off, plucked two wine glasses from the kitchen and placed them right beside her bottle of choice red wine, and waited for Lei Zhao to come home.
She wasn't afraid that Yan Mei would burst in anytime soon though, she had sent enough calamity to keep her occupied until very late.
Lei Zhao burst into the kitchen with the enthusiasm of a small boy, but his smile dipped slightly when he found her sitting there and not his beloved wife. He smiled at her, but it was a tamer version of what he would offer his wife, and that annoyed her immensely.
”Hey Yue Yan ” he called with a smile as he walked into the kitchen, his enthusiasm somewhat curbed
”Hey Lei Zhao , how was work today?” She returned in the same vein, her smile stilted
”Really good, got a lot done. Enjoy your day off?” he inquired conversationally as he moved to the huge fridge nestled in a corner of the kitchen and retrieved a bottle of water from it.
Yue Yan watched him intently, wondering when he would notice that the house was unusually silent; that it should be bustling with more bodies. ”Just something I needed. I was able to make plans and put them in motion.” She informed him with a sly smile
”That's a productive day then” he commented before chugging the contents of the bottle and disposing of it in the trash.
”Sure. Hey, Lei Zhao ”