"But I first placed my hand on it," Viktor immediately said like a child who was about to have his candy stolen and didn't remove his hand from the box.
"Maybe. But I was the one who was looking for it first before you came along. You should go deliver some other parcel," Vanessa said as she narrowed her eyes, her hand still on the box.
"But that's not fair. My mother taught me the phrase 'finders keepers,' and it is bad manners to 'steal' what someone else found first. So I am sorry to say this, but you have to find some other package. If I were to back out like this, then I would be looking down on my mother's teachings. I can't do that," Viktor said in a resolute tone like a good mama's boy.
"Are you serious?" Vanessa asked coldly as she tried to grab the box by applying some strength.
Viktor inwardly smirked as he also applied some strength to prevent the box from going in her direction while maintaining his gaze with her.
*Creak*
The metal shelf slightly wobbled as the two subtly contested to get the box, and those who were watching these two couldn't help but think that the tension in the air felt a bit heavy?
Vanessa frowned when she saw that the box was not budging at all because of this guy applying strength.
"Kid, let her have the box. Don't be a jerk, okay?" One of the men decided to step up and impress Vanessa by bullying this lanky kid who was too blind to even give way to a ravishing golden beauty like her.
"Leave it. You can hug this box to sleep if you want to," Vanessa let go of the box and said in an annoyed tone as she walked away, leaving the man who was about to 'help' her out with a stumped expression.
Viktor was surprised this girl left like that but felt amused by her pissed-off words. For some reason, his guts were telling him that this girl was not an easy woman to handle, and something about her was just pricking his mind.
Still, he was only happy that now he could deliver this package straight to his lover and got on a cheap scooter he had bought for his delivery purposes.
However, on his way to the hospital, he saw large displays displaying an advertisement from Vision Biosolutions about bringing about a revolutionary product, and the reveal would be soon enough. For some reason, he had been seeing this advertisement everywhere, including the internet, where people were talking about it with so much hype.
'Revolutionary product…What are these guys up to?' Viktor thought as he rode through the road.
Meanwhile, it was evening, and Taya was still busy working in her office after finishing up all her other work for today.
She was currently researching something she had always wanted to eagerly, and that was nothing else but how to have a child with someone like Viktor.
At first, she thought that since Viktor was not exactly a human, the incompatibility was preventing her from having a baby, and just in case, she also verified if it was her body's problem or not. But Viktor already told her he never had any children with his previous women over the centuries, and that made her sure she had nothing to worry about on her side.
She even asked his permission to look into his sperm sample and what was strange was everything looked human. There was nothing wrong or different at all in the tests that showed that Viktor was a vampire or werewolf.
This baffled her, and she wondered if the samples reverted to their human form since they were not in Viktor's body anymore. She then destroyed the samples right before Viktor since she knew he didn't want them to get misused by others and also wanted to prove to him she wouldn't use them for any other purpose.
It was not that Viktor didn't trust her, but it didn't mean he could trust the people around Taya. He knew Taya would never go behind his back for these kinds of things, and he did it since he was also curious as to why he couldn't make a child.
Taya's only wish in her life was to have a beautiful child with Viktor so that at least she can leave him with a memory when her time comes after a couple of decades while also creating some happy memories for herself.
However, she now asked Umilia what it could be and since Viktor was a supernatural being, maybe listening to what a supernatural human had to say could provide her a different perspective.
And to her surprise, Umilia, who had slept with Viktor after regaining her previous life memories, realized that Viktor's essence was perfectly alright and everything. In fact, she thought it was quite potent and powerful and felt that an ordinary human would face immense difficulty bearing his child since it wouldn't obviously be ordinary.
However, she told Taya that his essence was in a 'locked' state and didn't know if Taya would understand what she meant. But all she said was that this prevented him from having a child with any woman, ordinary or not. Even if he did it with a vampire or werewolf, he wouldn't be able to make a child unless his essence gets unlocked.
But Umilia was sad as well to say that she had no idea how to unlock it and also said that maybe only experts from ancient vampire or werewolf clans can look into this matter more deeply. This was just way outside her department.
Taya felt even more disappointed and sad to see that science probably wouldn't be able to solve this. Well…it never solved anything for her despite getting into this field solely for her relationship with Viktor.
Still, she decided not to give up and keep trying her best as long as she still had a breath in her body.
And while she was going through her research and ruffling through her papers, her secretary called her and said, "Doctor, there is a delivery for you."
"Just tell them to leave it with you," Taya casually said while rubbing her forehead, wondering why her secretary was calling her up for something simple while she was working on something important.
"I told him that. But this delivery boy insists by saying that he wants to hand you over the parcel personally to you. He also mentioned that his name was Dorian and—"
"Send him in!"
