Chapter 38: Chapter 38
Stacy looked at Samantha with confused eyes,
“How?” is the only word she muttered, but it is enough for Samantha to understand, as proved by her response.
“I knew it! The story is too familiar! It is the same as her bestselling novel, the first in the series!”
Samantha excitedly shows Stacy the novel she is talking about. Samantha has been such a fan of Angel’s works for as long as she can remember, and it somehow broke her heart that this fandom has to end this way.
Stacy also saw the resemblance in the story but what irritates her is that she is not there. She finds it annoying that for all these years she had been looking for this girl, her name and face have taken a significant amount of space in Stacy’s mind, and yet she doesn’t even exist in Angel’s world?
“So, what should we do now?” Samantha asked as if she was an assassin waiting for her next mission.
“Let’s observe them first from afar. Let them think they are safe for now, and then just like a tiger, we will attack our prey from the back!” Stacy’s voice is full of anger that would sip through your nerves. She is a person you wouldn’t want to mess with. The two parted for the night, but their minds are still fixated on the same goal: to dissolve Angel Brooks. They are willing to pull every string just to make it happen.
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The room is dark. A half-naken masculine man figure walks his way out of the shower and into his satin bed.
“What a tiring day,” James said with a smile. He said only half of the truth because it still makes James happy no matter how tiring this day might have been for him. After all, his old man is happy.
Thinking of the word happiness makes James remember his only happy pill- Angel. James called Angel to check up on her. Still, instead of making himself smile, James ended up being concerned as he heard the evident sadness in Angel’s tone- he is sure that she is in the middle of crying over something.
“ Anything you would want to talk about? “ James tried his best to not sound as if he is crossing the line, but he really wants to know.
“No, no, don’t worry, I am fine,”
A lie. And James knows it, but he respects her boundaries and would not ask any further.
“Do you like noodles?” James' last attempt.
“Sure, tomorrow?”
“Great. See you tomorrow. I know a place. “ James faked a smile as if AnataAngel would see him.
“Sure, good night.”
James would want to ask more and talk more, but she had already ended the call before James could respond. James thought that Angel might be afraid that he would ask more questions, and she might have wanted to avoid it.
Even if James is tired, he cannot sleep. His mind is filled with the question about what may be the reason why Angel is crying. James wanted to call Kyle, but he stopped thinking that it would be a waste of time because it was not like he would spill the tea.
Because James could not sleep, he decided to just go out and drink- may be the alcohol would help clear his mind and give him some rest, but he cannot be more wrong.
James went to one of the high-end bars in the neighborhood known for having the prettiest escorts around. Jame was even offered one when he came in, but he refused. He just ended up here because it is the nearest to his place.
He is about to get inside his private room when he bumps into a lady wearing a red spaghetti mini dress and high stilettos. This girl is thrown by some men in the room adjacent to where he would have entered, but luckily for the girl, he was there, or her head would have hit the marble walls hard.
James could not see this young maiden’s face because her hair was blocking the way, but she seemed to be familiar, and James was right!
The maiden tied her hair up. She did not mind the bruises she got from whatever fight she had to fight inside the VVIP room. Threw her stilettos on the side and shouted.
“F*ck you! You can’t even fight on your own, you old F*cking Bastard! PERVERT!”
The moment the girl talked, James knew it was none other than Linda!
James grabbed Linda’s hand when she was about to jump inside the VVIP room again and wreak havoc.
“Let me go!, Who the f*ck are you?”
Linda looked at her back and saw it was James. It made her stop for a second and think about her actions. Linda removed James' hand and shouted at him,
“Let me go! Who do you think you are? Do you interfere with my business!”
But James did not listen. He pulled Angel out the way of the first VVIP room and pushed her inside the VVIP room that James had reserved.
The VVIP customer and the Bar owner did not stop him because they recognized him and did not want to trouble his prominent family.
“Let me go!” Linda shouted and slapped James.
Both were stunned by their actions, but Linda did not back down. James held her face that turned red because of the slap, and sat on the wide couch inside the room filled with expensive liquor. He poured a glass of brandy, filled it with some ice, walked towards Linda, and put it in her hand. Linda now holds the glass of brandy that James placed into her hand and stares at him blankly.
“Calm down” James’ voice is calm yet stern, but something in it magically calms Linda.
James pulled Linda’s hand and guided her to sit on the couch beside him. She is confused about what is happening, but Linda feels calm and at ease beside James for some reason.
Ten minutes of Silence.
And Linda asked James if she would not ask her what was going on. James took a sip of the brandy in his hand and said,
“If a person does not want to say something, they either choose to stay quiet for a reason or do not trust the person yet. Do you trust me? “
James looked at Linda’s eyes for some seconds, but for those seconds, Linda’s world seemed to stop.
Her hands moved faster than her mind.
Pushed James towards her and
KISSED HIM.