Three

Oh my god... oh my god, help me. I hope that he's not in front of my apartment.

I prayed when I finished the night watch and had to go back to rest in my apartment before starting another part time job at the cafe 4 hours from now.

I slowly stepped towards my room after turning from the stairs and looked around that there was no one around.

I quickly stepped into the room at the far end of my apartment and hurriedly unlocked it.

Luckily this time there was no paper attached with a knife.  I had to put a tape on my door so that it wouldn't look like a hole caused by the knife.

Blam....

Letting out a long sigh, I entered my room and stopped when I saw a colorful bouquet of tulips, which is my favorite flower, on the kitchen counter.

But instead of being happy to see the bouquet, my heart ached to know how it got there?

My. God!

I’m doomed….

I said weakly and slumped to the floor staring at the bouquet of flowers.

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.. 4 hours later ..

"Hello Dwyne..." Greeted Kate who immediately looked at the bouquet of flowers I brought "Wooww... what's this?"

I handed the bouquet to her, "Someone I don't like gave it to me, but it's a shame to throw it away so I thought it could be a decoration in this cafe." I replied casually while taking an apron and started wearing it after putting the bag under the table to get ready.

Kate, who was the middle-aged woman who owned the place where I worked, giggled at my explanation with a shake of her head.

"It's expensive, you know, are you sure it's okay?" She teased me, but I just nodded while shrugging unconcernedly, "okay," she said before dividing the flowers and placing them on several tables in the cafe.

Kate, the 40-year-old woman who owns this hangout with her boyfriend who works for a big company. I don't know the name of the company, but her boyfriend’s name is Richard. he comes over a few times, usually on weekends to help out or for a quick dinner with his colleagues.

She accepted me into her job when I started college and understood my busy schedule as an intern at the hospital, so we were like sisters.

She also often helped me with school payments by giving me an advance payment and I was very grateful to know a woman like her.

"Hey, Dwyne." Paula, another worker came in and started to get ready, "Wow... looks like Richard's getting into the act with those flowers." She commented as she put on her apron and saw Kate busy arranging my flowers. All of us who work with Kate know about her boyfriend, Richard.

"It's not Richard, it's your friend's fans." Kate said quickly after hearing that while pointing at me with her head.

Paula raised an eyebrow and looked back at me, "Daniel?" She teased as she wiggled her eyebrows and made me roll my eyes, yes, everyone here knows about Daniel too.

"No," I groaned.

Paula gasped, "Anyone else? wow." She continued to tease and Kate just laughed as she came over to us after she was done with her business.

"We open in 5 minutes, is everything ready?" Kate asked and stood behind the counter.

We nodded yes at the same time Liam, the third employee, walked in.

"Sorry, almost late," he said as he hurriedly put down the bag and picked up his apron then stopped when he saw the decoration of the room, "Wow... Was it Richard, Kate?" he said happily while looking at her.

Paula laughed, "This time it's wrong, our friend has a lot of fans." She said while patting my back and I had to groan in embarrassment again when Liam also started wiggling his eyebrows to tease me.

"Wow! Daniel doesn't give up!" He commented and I was grateful when the cafe door opened and some customers came in which made me pretend to be busy serving them.

My God, why does everyone think it’s from Daniel?!

Today was busier than usual, and I was grateful that my friends didn't have a chance to tease me.

Just when I thought everything was going smoothly and safely, my body froze as I saw Richard enter the cafe with three of his friends because I just realized something when I saw them.

“Richard?!” Kate sounds happy when she sees him.

It was the first time this man called Richard had come before it turned dark and I only saw him clearly.

My heart was beating fast as I watched the man closely.

No, not because he was handsome, I knew he was handsome but that's not what surprised me instead the clothes he was wearing.

What surprised me was that I just remembered that Richard was always dressed neatly in a black suit. I thought it was an office outfit, but I just remembered that he was wearing the same clothes as that horrible man.

Pretending to be busy, I watched them from the corner of my eye, Kate who greeted them sounded surprised about something.

Then, when they looked surprised by the flower decorations inside the cafe and looked at me, I knew that I was right, they knew about the flower and me.

Cr*p!

Do they know that horrible man?

How could I not realize this?!

And Kate... Kate knows about that man too?!

Cling….

Then, my legs got really weak and I had to hold on to the counter as I saw new customers entering the cafe.

A man wearing sunglasses and a suit stared around the cafe before locking his gaze on me who stood transfixed behind the counter.

Oh my god, it's him!

Taking off his sunglasses, he slowly approaches the counter while continuing to stare into my eyes with a smirk forming on his face.

I turned around to ask Paula for help with the counter, she was making coffee for one of the customers and Liam was serving a table.

D*mn it!

As if he knew and could again read my mind, the man smiled widely while pretending to look at the menu while waiting for me.

Oh my god...

I'm so dead!

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