Chapter 59

“You know you can tell me if you don’t feel comfortable with him right? I would know how to handle him” Lana was someone who loved to bury herself in her mystery and crime books.

“Right, let me guess. You’ve read a thing about this?” I said raising a brow at her.

“Damn right girl”

“Lana, he needs you” a girl came from nowhere and said making us pause our conversation. She didn’t need to say his name, we all know who she was talking about. Lana and our boss had a thing going on. Every living been ng knew that. It was more of a hate relationship that had blossomed into love somewhere along the lines.

“Why?” she said trying to sound irritated but anyone that had known her as long as I did would know that she was about to run head first to attend to him, that and the fact that an excitement crossed her feature immediately she hear that he needed her.

“I.. I don’t know bu...but I think it’s urgent” she said and left after she was dismissed by Lana.

“You guys had another fight?” I sipped on my coffee waiting for her to spill the tea.

“Don’t remind me” she heaved

“That would be the third time this week” I looked at her like she had grown a second head. “And it’s only Monday” with the way they fought, one would think that they would realize that they were too toxic for each other and call it quits already.

“Your point exactly?” she said getting into a defensive mode.

“I’m just saying” I raised my hands in mock surrender. “ whatever suits you love.”

“, Don’t do that!” she said stomping her foot and then pointing an accusing finger at me.

“Do what?”

“Make it sound like I am doing wrong and then come out innocent”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about babe, but do what makes you happy” I said and walked away

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“Marie? Someone has been waiting for you outside for the past two hours?” Chris, one of my co-workers said making me snap my head to him.

“What? No, I think you’re mistaken. Lana has gone home” It was normal that after work hours, we would go to her place and crash at her place a bit.

“No, it’s not her” he emphasized her with Soo much contempt. It was no secret that Lana was not particularly a likeable person, mainly because of her bluntness most of the times.

“Oh..”

I got up from where I had sat for the past three hours and went to go and see for myself who it was. “I thought you closed by six?” the weird guy from earlier said smiling at me.

“I thought you got the hint that I did not want to go out with you?” I said turning away from him and going back into the office.

“I figured you might not have eaten dinner, so I brought you a little something” he said stretching the little brown bag towards me.

“I don’t do late dinners” I said not collecting the bag from him at all.

“Fine by me, then don’t think of this as a late dinner. Think of it as an early breakfast” he was still smiling and the smile was yet to shift from his face.

“What’s your deal with me” I crossed my hands over my chest. “Are you stalking me?” I looked around the office, kind of satisfied that there were more people who decided to work late today.

“What? No!” a look of panic crossed his face. “I just wanted to make sure you were comfortable. I know how shitty work could be”

“Then why did you bother to get me dinner? Why do you even bother to talk to me.” I needed answers and I did not care if I was being mean about it.

“Look, I saw you one day and I thought I would like to get to know you. So if you don’t mind, I am trying to get to know you” he took a step forward making me look down, to the direction of his feet.

“Look, it’s just a harmless treat. Please? I waited since five thirty to pick you up on time” my eyes widened at that information.

“Its nine o’clock!” I said, still with wide eyes.

“I noticed” he chuckled

“And FREEZING out side” winter was yet to be over and he most definitely was not dressed for the cold in his suit pants and packet long sleeve shirt.

“I could handle it” he shrugged mindlessly. “I mean I am standing here aren’t I?” the guilt made me to finally take the brown bag from his hands.

“I am just doing it to feel polite, nothing more.’ I tried to convince myself that, that was the only reason I was taking the food and not because I was dead hungry and could not afford the money on food today. If I did spend today, I would not have money for the bus. Besides, I needed to get money to pay the light bills before it was cut for untimely payment.

“Thank you” he said with a wide smile

“I’m Declan” he said out of the blue while we were seated.

“Okay” I said as I consciously opened the brown bag. I was fighting the urge to release a moan from how good the smell of the food was. I was basically in another heaven.

“You know, this is where you tell the other person your name” he said sarcastically although you could tell that he wanted to know my name

“I thought you would have stalked the name out of me already” I said rolling my eyes as I brought a burger out of the bag.

He laughed. “I swear, I am not a stalker. You just happened to have caught my attention and now I want to hang out.

“Marie, spellmen” he nodded his head in approval

“It fits you, I like it” he said giving me that smile. He seemed like the type to smile a lot. I was starting to get worried. 'All serial killers start this way. They first come off as friendly.

“Did you poison this?” the words came flying out of my mouth before u could even stop them. “WHAT!! NO! It’s just food i swear” the look that passed his face as he said those words made me feel safe.

'he did not poison the food' I thought to myself

Maybe Lana was really rubbing off of me with her crime and mystery movies because why would I think that?!

I decided not to think much about it, and dug in. “You care for?” I said after a while when I realized that I was the only one that was eating.

“No thank you, I had mine two hours ago” he said shaking his head.

“That was a long time ago” I said and pushed the burger in my hands forward as if forcing him to take a bite.

“no, Its fine, I promise” he pushed my hands back slightly as he rejected it.

“So, what do you like to do in your free time?” the look of interest on his face made me feel like he was genuinely interested in me.

*Snorts* “its not like you care about that” I said as I continued to bite my burger. It’s not like he cares anyways

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I battled to wake up and get my vision back together, but I seemed to be trapped.

"You know it's cute how you think you could ever be free from this never ending cycle" I heard from beside me...