127 Seven Days 2 (1/2)
The price of sixty-five dollars surprised Kyro. He hadn't expected for her to actually care about his money. Or well, that a woman could buy anything with this pitiful amount. From what Gale always said, a couple thousand was barely enough for a dress, let alone matching shoes and a purse.
The girl seemed satisfied, though. She had been smiling when he came in.
”Come, I'll show you your room.” He pushed off the table and left the study, but the girl was lagging behind. When he turned around, he saw that she was still staring at the monitor. ”It's not gonna be delivered faster just because you will it so.”
”Ah, yes!” she replied in a hurry, turning to him with a guilty expression. Just what had she been thinking about?
He led them to the three guest room and chose the one that was almost never used. ”Gale stays in this one while the one next to it is prepared for unexpected guests. So take the one on the right. I don't think anyone's stayed in it in a long while.”
Inside the room, there wasn't much besides a bed, a dresser with a large mirror, and a wardrobe. Everything was slightly dusty from disuse, but besides that, there were no problems.
”Thanks,” the girl said with a smile and shooed him out. ”I'm fine, no need to supervise me. Go now, do whatever you want.”
He didn't resist too much and left, but nothing seemed to require doing at the moment. Instead, he just sat down and thought about how his life had derailed in such a short amount of time.
It was crazy to allow a random woman to freeload in his house—and he would have never done it under normal circumstances—but this one interested him. Turning into a fox seemed impossible, yet it was happening right before his eyes. On top of that, the girl didn't seem to mind it whatsoever.
He found it hard to believe that she had never turned into a fennec before. Otherwise, how could she be so calm? Based on her words, she didn't look for a way to change until the moment she became human again.
Yet she was clearly a person of the modern era. There was history of her life in the UK, and she was familiar with things online, so clearly, she hadn't lived as a fox in some desert or at someone's home as a pet. Not for overly long, anyway.
Why did she not want to turn back then? It was hard for him to imagine a situation when a person would prefer to abandon everything they care about and instead embrace a life of someone's pet. Maybe if someone lived in utter hell, but from what he learned, she had a simple and calm life. Nothing extraordinary.
And she didn't even look sad. Even though she was fearful of him now and somewhat subdued, the words he would have used to describe the fennec were energetic, spirited, and the like.
'Just what is she hiding?'