I woke up and saw I was in my room. The sun rays penetrated from the windows as the curtain flapped in the wind. A warm aroma of tea lingered in the air as my brown cup stayed at a side. A yawn escaped from my mouth as I stretched my back. Perfect morning with a perfect black tea. 

Wait!

Tea!

I snapped my head at the bedside desk. The brown mug from which I loved to drink my favorite black tea was there as vapor rose from it. My brows knitted on my forehead as I cautiously took the cup. 

It was hot as if the tea was made just now. I took a sip. The raw flavor of tea touched my tongue. Just perfect!

I looked around but no one was there. I shrugged as I sipped again. At least enjoy the tea while you can...

Then the last night's memories flashed before my eyes. The cheating, the bar, the contract and the devils... Most importantly, Callahan.

Nah! I must be very depressed about the cheating. That was why I had dreamt all of those things. Releasing a breath I sipped again but a noise caught my attention. I halted.

Outside of my bedroom door, I heard my utensils were being used. My blood went cold. Who could have the nerve to do a burglary in broad daylight? 

I slowly got up from the bed leaving the cup on the desk. My feet touched softly on the floor as I went near the door. My heart thumped as I heard someone open the fridge. Fridge!!!

I made pudding!

I barged open the door and dashed toward my kitchen and saw a naked man—well, he still had his trousers on—a half naked man stood facing his back toward me as he was taking something from the fridge.

"Who are you?" I shouted as the man turned around and his back muscles clenched with his movements creating luscious dreams a girl would imagine. His long hair fell on his shoulder as he finally turned around.

It was Callahan with a sharp knife in his hands. He looked as if he was going to murder someone with how the edge of the knife glinted. His green eyes washed over me as he said as a smile crawled on his lips, "Good morning, sweetheart. Had a good night's sleep?"

So it wasn't a dream.

"Nope, it wasn't a dream." He said as he went over the kitchen slab and cut the onions in a very chef-like way. 

"How did you enter?" I asked.

"Through the door." He said and shrugged, "Well, I can pretty much enter without a door if that's what you prefer."

"Wha—" I felt puzzled as I tried to remember what happened after our contract but no matter what everything was blank. "Why are you here?"

"How can I leave my contractor alone?" He said.

"And why are you...naked?"

"I could ask you the same thing," his eyes moved from my face to my bottom as he added, "However, I like the view."

I looked at myself and saw I was in the black lingeries that I had brought for Fred to surprise. I gasped and tried to wrap my hands around my very revealing body to hide from him. But Callahan's lips curled up in a devious smirk which reminded me of his devil form. Which was sexy...

I could not find anything near but a cloth lay on the couch, I grabbed it and wore it immediately. Surprisingly, it was a big shirt. Releasing a breath, I turned around toward the sexy devil and said, "Now, can you just leave? I am having a very dreadful day and I want to spend my time alone."

"For what? To brood over your boyfriend who is having pleasure filled nights with your best friend?"

It hit me like a brick had been thrown to my face. He was right apparently. Fred was having a really good time with her. The time I was not able to give him. I wanted to give it to him on our special night but he ruined it. For a moment, I felt anger rising but the next it was gone.

"Great! Making you angry seemed hard but now I see, you have some check marks that I can use on you."

I blinked at him. I could not understand a thing as my eyes laid on him with questions forming in my head. "What do you mean?"

"Well, I need some good food for myself."

"So?"

"The emotions you hold are my food. Not the happy one, the emotions of 7 deadly sins."

I nodded, now I was confused and more than that I was feeling dizzy with everything. It seemed every little thing was happening to me and was trying to make me mad, sad or confused. 

Callahan said, " I see. You didn't understand a thing." 

He started to chop the vegetables and said, "Anger, Lust, Greed, Pride, Sloth. These are the emotions I feed on. Especially Anger, Lust and Pride. They are my favorite food."

"You eat Anger?" For a moment, I tried to imagine its taste.

"Yes and no." He stopped chopping and said, "Human emotions. I take my energy from human emotions."

I nodded. Now I must be dreaming. Still dreaming.

"Oh no! You are not dreaming. All of these are real."

A gap parted my mouth in two as I thought, did I say it out loud?

"Nope, you didn't. I can read minds too." He said with a smug face.

"Then stop reading my mind!"

"And why would I do that?" 

"Because it's uncomfortable! And embarrassing." My cheeks got color as I eyed him angrily. 

"Hmm... So, this can make you angry too." Callahan nodded, "Then I'll do that more!"

My brow twitched. "That is not fair!"

"Then why am I called a devil? Of course, I would not be fair." He said it so casually that for a moment I wanted to smack his head with the cutting plate.

I was about to shout when the doorbell rang. I went to the door and as soon as I opened it, my whole body froze. It was Fred standing with a face that said he was guilty. 

His eyes looked at me with an amused look and I remembered I was wearing only a shirt which reached hardly to my mid thighs. "Fred..." I said weakly, even his name felt foreign in my mouth. 

"I—" Fred said, "I am sorry. I didn't want to do it but..."

"But what?" I asked as I felt a dull pain in my chest.

"Emily seduced me and I could not help myself —"

"I see, lust, it is..." Callahan said as both pairs of eyes moved toward him. He was sitting on the kitchen iceland with a plate full of food while chewing on it. His jaw muscles moved and despite my boyfriend—ex-boyfriend—was present I could not divert my eyes away from him.

"Who is he?" Fred asked, his eyes held anger as I looked between them. For a moment, I had forgotten that Callahan was still there. I was about to come up with an excuse when Fred crossed past me and entered the apartment.

"Um... Well..." I could not comprehend what to say. Should I say, he was a devil and I had somehow ended up in a contract with him?

"No. He will piss in his pants." Callahan answered my thoughts and it made my cheeks grow red. 

"Would you stop that?" I growled as Fred asked again, "Who is he?" This time, his voice increased its pitch and his eyes looked at me with disgust. It made me feel uncomfortable.

"Well, hello," Callahan said as he placed his plate and stood up. "I'm Callahan and it's not nice to meet you." 

He came near as his eyes moved up and down at Fred. "You see, Fred, we were having a nice conversation going on and you have interrupted it."

It seemed Fred didn't like the way he was talking to him and I certainly didn't like it however, a small part of me seemed to be cheering for him and was clearly amused. 

Fred wasn't much taller than me, just by a few inches but when Callahan stood before him with his broad shoulders and tall build, it seemed he had driven him out of the frame.

"You... You were having sex with him? I thought you said something like you were saving it for me!" Fred growled as I flinched at his accusation. 

"What? No! We weren't." 

"Oh, I can see that." Fred's eyes looked at me and somehow my clothes didn't justify my answer. A white shirt and under it, the sexy lingeries. On the other hand, Callahan had his trousers. Only trousers...

Of course, no one would believe me.

"Yes, we were and now you are interrupting us. Can you please get out of here?" Callahan asked with an innocent tone which made Fred more furious than before.

"I... I will tell everything to your parents!" He threatened.

"What?"

"Of course! Weren't you a christan who would remain pure until their marriage?" 

I was resisting the urge to slap him. He was the one who cheated me and now he was threatening me with my parents. And also questioning my purity! The nerve of him! 

But again, the rage which had accumulated in me vanished and I cursed myself in my mind for not being able to say anything. 

"Hypocrisy." Callahan's deep voice bloomed as he smiled at Fred, one dimple on his cheek on full display. "I like that about you Fred. But alas! I would not be able to punish you now. I have to wait for a few years to do that."

"Excuse me?" Fred growled at him clearly he didn't understand a thing the devil said.

Callahan said, "Oh! I excused you. Now," his smile was replaced with a grim face, "Get. Out." His voice was dangerous and it seemed Fred got the threat in his voice as he stepped back a little. 

"Who are you to say that to me?" Fred managed to say that even when his voice stumbled a little.

Callahan crossed the distance between me and him as his hand slowly wrapped my waist and pulled me against him. "You see Fred, you are making my contractor sad and I don't like to eat sadness. I would have appropriated it if you had made her angry."

From the confusion that was written on Fred's face, it was certain he didn't understand a thing. 

Callahan added, "You had your fun with that girl yesterday and from now on, she will be having fun too." 

"Of course, fun it is, isn't it?" Fred said with a disgusted face which made me hang my head low. I felt pain. How could Fred act like this? He had no trust in me yet I had been in love with him. Unconditionally. 

I was even ready to marry him yet his words pinned me like needles. I felt dizzy and wanted to curl up in a ball and cry the whole day.

"Oh, yes. Fun. Because she is mine now." Callahan said and I snapped my head at him, my eyes widening as my ears got heated. 

Fred looked between us as he was about to leave, his face twisted in anger as he said, "I thought you loved me. Yet it didn't take you long to get another boyfriend."

I tilted my head at Fred as a scoff left my mouth, "I thought the same about you but oh well, ironic isn't it?"

A gap formed in Fred's mouth as I, myself, got surprised at the sudden outcome. I had never argued with Fred even if I was right. Fred had always been a bit too domineering and he liked to find fault in me. I was the one who would always go for the compromise. But not anymore.

I had enough with his overpowering self. He would blame everything on me and would always make me feel guilty. I even sacrificed my manga and anime clubs because of him. He said—which almost felt like an order—not to go in those clubs as they had weird people yet I had never told him to quit his music clubs. I knew he loved it and I had always supported him. 

"You wait until I say this to your parents." Fred threatened as he went out of the door but looked at me with a look of mischief. He wanted me to go to him and apologize but I would not. Ever.

"Then think what would they say after hearing that their future son in law was sleeping with random women." I corrected, "Ex-future son-in-law, I meant."

Fred seemed to have lost his speech as his jaw smashed on the ground. 

Callahan all the while, was seeing an amusing scene unfolding before his eyes as I said, "Now, don't interrupt us and get out of my house."

I went near the door and closed the door on his face with a loud bang.