My Most Precious Human novel Chapter 27

It was understandable that no one was going to help the most hated human working at the Argent Investment Bank carry heavy boxes of documents. I had to do it all by myself. Certainly, Sariel didn't even think about assigning someone to assist me. I bet that in normal circumstances there would be at least five people working at the external audit, but since I was the one who suggested this I had to accept the fact that I had become a one-person department. Working alone wasn't a problem. I used to handle assignments that involved hundreds of documents without any help. At that moment, it was all about those damn boxes from the archives.

I carried three boxes at once. The boxes weighed around thirty pounds each. These were merely documents from the first quarter of the year 2011. I walked through the corridor while people were passing me by, wickedly chuckling or smirking. I wouldn't be surprised if one of them decided to trip me.

"Lilith, calm down and think of it as weight training," I muttered under my breath.

Someone who decided to place the archives at the end of the fourth-floor corridor certainly was a sadist. Certainly, I was looking for something like a luggage cart first, but of course, the "nice" human workers decided to use all of the available ones just the second I mentioned it. I guess the real problem was that I had no authority over those people. I could merely report their mistakes if they had happened to make one. That really started to piss me off. Fortunately, I had developed a lot of patience in dealing with haters over the years. For now, I could only ignore them. Additionally, I knew that my indifference would drive them crazy. While they were busy fuming inside their little heads, I could focus on my job.

Over 90% of the archives were in digital form. I could easily access those documents from my computer. The problem was the additional documentation with hand-written signatures that sometimes needed to be checked. Unquestionably, going through those paper folders took most of my time. Luckily, no one disturbed me, and that was why I was ready to hand over my first report by the end of the day.

I got out of my office and went all the way to another end of the top-floor corridor. It was the place where the CFO's office was. I knocked.

"Come in, Lilith." I heard Gabriel's voice, who apparently decided to call me by my first name from now on.

"How did you know it was me?" I asked, entering his office.

Gabriel chuckled, got up from his desk, and walked over to me.

"First, there is no one daring enough to knock on my door, and you were the only one whom I expected, and second, there is no one who smells better than you." He sniffed my neck as if my scent was some sort of aphrodisiac.

I flinched and stepped back. I guessed it was stupid of me to ask him that question.

"I brought the first report," I said, nervously handing him over the twenty-page long document.

"I'm impressed!" Gabriel called out, "You sure work fast. Are you certain that you are human?" He snickered.

"Let's just say that my mind works at a level slightly above average," I smirked.

He stepped closer to me just to breathe in my scent.

"This is so peculiar," he said, sniffing my neck again.

I moved away since his behavior had started to freak me out.

"W-what is peculiar?" I laughed nervously.

"You haven't been marked by a vampire and yet there is a weak vampire scent on you, or more like… within you," he explained mysteriously.

I wondered what he meant by saying that I had a vampire scent, yet there was something I wanted to know more about.

"How do you know that I haven't been marked?" I asked.

There were still too many things about vampires I couldn't understand, and since I was now beginning to work among them, I thought this was something I ought to know.

"Vampires can sense whether someone belongs to a vampire or not. It's like an invisible seal that appears on a human body... Although it's not necessarily the neck," Gabriel explained teasingly.

"Have you ever marked anyone?" I inquired hesitantly.

He burst out laughing. Only then did I realize that my question was close to asking him if he was a virgin. I became flustered, and was about to tell him not to answer, but then…

"I marked hundreds of women over the years. I currently have my little harem of ten," he stated casually, "But I would gladly make it eleven if you wanted to join." He licked his lip while staring into my eyes.

"I'll pass."

"Such a waste… If I were Sariel, I would have sunk my teeth into you the first day we met," he claimed confidently.