I now had two men shadowing me everywhere I went. Everyone was a suspect, regardless of who it could possibly be connected to.Kol hadn’t had many partners and one was already dead. I highly doubted that high school crushes could some how spawn delusion psychopaths who thought it was perfectly okay to watch people in their houses and how on earth had they even avoided the cameras? All three of us, Kol, Josh and I had stayed up all night ransacking video footages of the company, the streets near and Kol’s house and found nothing. It was like this person was a ghost. A skilled ghost.I didn’t tell Thea or Charlie. They had too much to deal with. I couldn’t offload all that on them, plus, it was my problem. I’d deal with it.I’d temporarily moved in with Kol and we now went to work and back home together, fueling the rumours at work for anyone who noticed. Kol’s place was safer than mine in terms of security and definitely much cozier. Our fights had increased daily and we were both stre
“Where should we meet up?”“How about you come over and I make dinner? I happen to be an excellent cook.” We hadn’t been to each other’s spaces before and Charlie thought we would feel cozier if we met up at her place, which I realised wasn’t too far from Kol’s. A win-win situation.“Aren’t you very busy though?” Her being a doctor surely messed with her schedule. I’d seen videos of how over worked some of these medical staffers were, especially the nurses. How wrong I was.“Nope. I only work on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Since I’m a plastic surgeon, my workdays are quite flexible.”“Oh.. okay.”“Does 6pm sound good to you?”“Sure.” All my exhaustion from the days work suddenly disappeared. I walked up to Kol’s office and knocked. There was no answer. I decided to open the door and wait for him.I walked to his floor-to-ceiling glass window and peered outside. I had never done that and even though I’d been in his office countless times, and there was an actual window, I felt like
"You didn't." My eyes narrowed at her."I'm sorry." She ran to open the door, revealing a slightly older man with a head full of dark hair. He looked way younger in person. "Dad!" She hugged him before letting him in."I smell chicken fried rice. You cooked?" I didn't miss the tone of surprise in his voice. She walked hand-in-hand with him to the kitchen. He hadn't seen me yet. He was more focused on their conversation. When I finally came into view, he stopped in his tracks, as if he couldn't believe his eyes. "How..." My brows drew into confusion.I looked at Charlie with panic in my eyes. He had the same green eyes as us and now they were filled with fear mixed with shock?"My God! Evelyn."My eyes widened in surprise. He'd mistaken me for his dead wife."Charlie? Can you please explain what's going on here?"I looked back at Charlie who had a sheepish expression on her face. I threw the napkin on the kitchen counter and folded my arms across my chest, anger evident on my face
“How about a vacation?” I looked up at Kol who was running his hands through my hair. I lifted my eyebrows quizzically. Kol wanted us to go on a vacation? Workaholic Kol?Things had been quite silent at work, especially with Jason. Too quiet even and though neither of us said it, but we waited for the other shoe to drop. Jason was not the type to sit back silently when he was ‘attacked’. “You have anywhere in mind?” My eyes closed as I breathed in his scent. His fingers moved wisps of hair away from my face and looked at me with love and a hint of mischief in his eyes.“I’m not telling.” I huffed. “So you’re kidnapping me then?” His deep chuckle vibrated through my skin and into my bones.“I wouldn’t call it kidnapping. More like surprising…”I rolled my eyes and lifted his shirt to reveal his well-toned abdominals. I moved my lips to his skin and his body tensed in response. If he thought I was going to do something s*xy, he was in for a big surprise.I brought out my tongue and
“This is insane. How is your place this big?”I looked around Thea’s house. The house she’d gotten in Naples had multiple rooms that she probably wouldn’t need but it was the aesthetics that blew me off. From outside, it looked just like a pristine-white mansion that covered over four thousand square feet but on getting inside, I couldn’t shut my mouth. It was like a splash of flavours. The arch ways had murals painted over them and some rooms had some kind of alt décor in some of them. You could get to a room and feel warm and you could get to another and feel hyped up enough to do some work because of the lively space.“Bro… I can’t even…” We’d just left her workspace from the tour and I could understand why her house was so huge. There was this really big room that could fit 20 of old room in it and there were fabrics upon fabrics strewn about with lots of machines I couldn’t even recognise.“Damn! How did you even manage our space? It seems like an ant compared to this.” I motione
I hadn’t seen Santonio since our arrival but I’d lost count of the number of guys I’d had to tell off in the last 30 minutes.“There’s this guy I’ve been seeing…” I moved my focus on my funny-looking drink to Thea who was on her third glass. Thea didn’t like to talk much about guys she saw because most of them were flings.‘This must be pretty serious.’ I thought to myself.“Oh really? Who’s he?”“I don’t know. Some guy who owns multiple businesses. It’s not that big a deal but I think I like him.”“Not that big a deal? I haven’t seen you like a guy in years.” She waved the matter off like it didn’t matter.“He texted me not quite long. He’s supposed to be here tonight.” She pouted. My brows shot up in surprise.“We’ve been talking online mostly. We’ve only seen a couple of times actually, when he has work here.”Long distance? Nah. It was a big deal. If there was someone who hated long distance relationships more than me, it was her. She slurped her drink until there was nothing in t
“Let her go.” The deadly calm in Kol’s voice scared me but seemed to have no effect on the drunken idiot who still had a tight grip on my wrist.“Who the f*ck are you?”“The man who will leave you unrecognisable if you don’t let my woman go.”Maybe it was the alcohol or the cold in the air but this stranger didn’t let go. Kol approached him with an almost silent stride. I tried to pull my wrist from his hold and begged him to let me go.Kol was much taller and more built than he was. Even if he was an expert fighter, he was drunk. I was doing him a favour.“Shut up b*tch.” Kol didn’t spend a lot of time talking. He let his fist do that. The first punch sent him doubling over, causing him to drop my hand to hold his stomach. Kol approached him again but I pulled him back.“Hey, I’m okay. Let’s just go.” I knew it took everything for Kol to leave him just like that. The man had refused to do as he asked and further insulted me.“Kol?” I saw his eyes narrow at the figure on the floor and
“What’s up with him?”“Okay, don’t take this the wrong way but I know him.” I gulped hard.“Why would I take that the wrong way. Of course you’d know him. I’d be surprised if you didn’t.” My eyes widened a fraction and then narrowed in confusion.“He told me he also does tech stuff. So, it’s plausible that you’ve met.” She clarified.“I don’t mean like that. Okay.” She put her popcorn aside, her attention fully on me.“Do you remember when I worked at Jaskey’s and I found out my boss cheated me?” Her eyes darkened as she remembered the event.“Yeah. I remember. I did say that if I found him, I’d beat him to pulp.”“Well, technically speaking, you have. Jace…” I shook my head.“Jason is my boss’s boss.”“What?” She cleaned her ears like she hadn’t heard right.“Are you f*cking serious right now?” I nodded my head in all seriousness.“But… he doesn’t seem like that kind of person.” Was she seriously defending him?“He’s not a good person Thea. Trust me, I know.” Thea sent me a sharp loo