Seulgi was poleaxed, Bhuwakul was contemptive, and the manager was confused.

  “You know this man?”

  Bhuwakul responded, “This man is one of our co-workers. Is it possible that you can make a copy of this?”

  “Technically, no. The cops have to ask and have a subpoena to ask for a copy, then we can give it. But, a resident can also ask, under certain conditions. These are very grey if this is such a situation, so it’s up to my discretion. I’ve heard about what’s going on and why this is important. So, here’s what I am going to do. I am going to look up every relevant camera, copy these feeds onto a fsh drive, and have it ready for you by eight in the morning. Is that acceptable?”

  Again, Bhuwakul answered for her. “That would be fine, thank you. I’ll go ahead and take her upstairs, she may be in shock for a while.” He stood up with the manager, shaking hands.

  “Seulgi? Come on, we need to get out of this kind man’s way so we can get the information. Come on, stand up.” He reached out a hand to her and she mechanically accepted it. He pulled her to her feet. He, again, noticed that she was actually heavier than she appeared. It was all the muscle that she built from working out and staying fit. She had the body of a dancer or martial artist. She looked slim and trim but had a sizeable mass due to the density of her muscles. He felt sorry for anyone who mistook her and got her mad enough to hit them. He didn’t know for a fact, but he had the educated guess that her punch would ftten any normal person. He was also certain that he didn’t ever want to get hit by her.

  Smiling, he tugged her hand and got her moving forward again. They got out of the office, Seulgi still stunned. Bhuwakul tucked her hand in the crook of his arm and started guiding her to the elevator. There was no way that the stairs were an option.

  “Do you need help with getting her into her apartment, sir?” one of the guards asked. He was frowning because he did not know Bhuwakul.

  Knowing why the guard asked, he replied, “No, thank you. I’ll get her upstairs, get her settled, and then I’ll let Suki take over.”

  Suki was even a legend at the guard desk, too. It was his subtle way of letting them know that he had been there before and was on good terms. One such legend was Suki’s ability to judge a person’s character.

  They got Seulgi shambling her way over to the elevator and on the way up to her pce.

  As the elevator door shut, there was a figure that was watching through the window that walked away as well.

  On the way up, Bhuwakul did the unthinkable. He got into Seulgi’s purse – a forbidden area for any man, ever. He did fumble past a few archaic mysteries to find her keys. She was so flummoxed that she did not even notice this trespass. Knowing her, she would probably not care. Probably. Bhuwakul thought that you can never know a woman’s whims.

  They got to the correct floor, and he tugged her out of the elevator and to her apartment. He got her to her door. The neighbor across the way opened the door and saw them. Then he noticed the shocked look on her face, asking if she was OK.

  Bhuwakul said no. She had just received to very bad news, so he was taking care of her.

  The neighbor politely wished her well and a quick resolution of whatever the problem was.

  Bhuwakul thanked him profusely on Seulgi’s behalf as he opened the door and ushered her inside. The neighbor noticed the possessive way he put his hand on her waist to get her moving.

  Once inside, he firmly closed the door. He took her over to the couch and sat her down. Once comfortably enthroned, he took off her shoes and set them by the entrance where she would have normally taken them off.

  He went back to the couch and put her legs up on the couch in a semi-reclined position. Suki took her position behind her on the back. She could tell something was wrong with her Idiot. She started purring as hard as she could hoping to reach her.

  Bhuwakul took some time to give appropriate scratches. Suki was unimpressed, so she pressed harder into his hand so the strength of the fingers was increased. He had forgotten that she was not a weak hot-house-flower sort of cat. She liked hard scratches.

  He knew Seulgi’s routines, so he did her normal duties – filling the cat’s dinner bowl, filling the water dispenser, clean out the litter box. He also put her keys in the bowl by the door. He did a few other things as well.

  He then rummaged through her cabinets and fridge. Normally, he would not be so invasive, but he was going to make her something to eat before he left.

  He got a small pot of soup going, then made her a sandwich. He wrapped the sandwich in pstic wrap and left it on a pte. After the soup boiled, he took the heat down as low as it would go, so it would be warm when she ‘woke up’.

  Since he had no idea when that would be, he turned off the heat altogether. Hopefully, it would still be warm for her. But if not, she could turn the heat on again.

  After a few moments, Suki came by, stropping his ankles. He reached down, she reached up, and he acquiesced and picked her Highness up. How could he say No to this fuzzy face? He, like everyone else who came into her orbit, fell in love with her.

  Suki might have even more fans than her human, after all. Bhuwakul was no exception. No one would believe that this strong, stoic, and deadly man would be so whipped by a fuzzy princess. Stranger things have happened, and he was as much a sve to her as everyone else was.

  She squirmed in his arms to suit herself a bit more comfortably. She grabbed his hand and then started cleaning his thumb. She had to treat her sves, after all. This would be the carrot since she did not need to use the stick on this man.

  After a few pleasant minutes of cuddling his true master, he set her down on the couch next to Seulgi. On the back, of course, she needed to maintain her dignity, after all.

  At this time, he found a pen and pad of paper. He wrote a note expining what happened, how she should be able to pick up the thumb drive on the way to work, and that he already fed, and watered her Highness as well as cleaned her box. There was a sandwich and soup on the counter waiting for her, too.

  Before he left, he put her phone on the charger, so it should be fully ready for her when she got back. He got a bnket and tucked her in on the couch, he gave Suki one st caress between the ears and walked to the entryway to put on his shoes.

  He dimmed the lights a bit, got his shoes on, and opened the door to leave.

  There was someone dressed all in bck at the entryway. Out of reflex, he threw a devastating punch. Fortunately, he recognized the person and diverted the punch enough to graze his ear rather than destroy his face.