Chapter 41: Chapter 41

Isabella's pov;

"There's no letter! not advanced information! not a report! There was nothing! Where were you all this time? What were you doing all this time? Do you know how hard it is without you? Since you're not here, Charlotte covered both the shifts for you. You have to thank her for doing that for you. We don't have your phone number, home address, nothing. Since you're a friend of my brother, I accepted you to work here even though this place doesn't accept outsiders."

"I'm sorry."

"I don't need your apology. I want a proper reason why you weren't here during your shifts. Where did you go?"

"My... My mom was sick so I was with her during her surgery. She went into a temporary coma after the surgery so I drank all day and got alcohol poisoning and…"

When I said the reason, Becky's face turned pale and she gave an expression of sympathy.

"I'm sorry for not reporting in advance, Becky. I will not repeat this mistake again. I need this job. Please don't fire me."

She signalled to go while saying, "Well, go and serve the customers. Get back to work."

"Thank you, Becky."

I walked forward to her table.

"I said to leave. What are you doing?"

"You mentioned that you don't have my number so I'll write down my phone number and my home address here." And wrote both in her sticky note and left the office.

When I reached the counter, I saw Charlie standing near the coffee machine.

He asked me, "Hey! How did it go with Becky? She seemed so angry with you when you didn't show up for work. Did she fire you?"

"I still have my job."

"After hearing about your mother, she might have felt bad and let you go this time but I'm not sure of the second time. So be careful."

"Thank you for your advice."

"How's your mom now?"

"Yeah, I went to the hospital before coming here. She's good and healthy."

"What did the doctor say about the temporary coma? Did he say anything like ``when will she wake up?"

"No, he said it's my mother's will to wake up from that coma. I hope she wakes up soon."

"No worries. I'll pray for her."

"Thank you, Charlie."

He gave a smile and went back to work.

I took the orders and served the customers with their favourite coffee, cappuccino, Americano, iced tea with a snack to go along with it.

After my shift was over, I took off at 6.30 pm. I walked along the pathway to the bus terminal. I got seated at the bus terminal and looked at the road beside me. I felt tired after working for two weeks but it feels like a long time.

When I tried to make a call to Mateo asking him to pick me up, I got a message from Max, my ex-boss.

-Did your shift be over? Don't forget to be here at 7 pm. This was a message to remind you.

I totally forgot about that! Will he accept if I say I'm feeling tired? Let's try it. I sent him a message that I felt tired and wanted to go home and informed him that I'll be there tomorrow.

He sent a reply,

-Be here at 7 pm.

I knew it! He's stubborn as before. I got a call from Mateo.

"Hello?"

"Ms. Garcia, can I come and pick you up? Do you work over?"

"I'm working night shift too so I'll come by myself, Mateo."

"Can I come after your night shift is over?"

"It's fine, I'll take care of it."

"Yes, mam." And ended the call.

I took the bus and came to Max's club. I walked among the crowd and made it to the stand.

There was a new girl in the stand. The girl in the stand asked me, "Are you the new bartender?"

"Yeah, it's me."

She gave me some clothes to get changed into. It was a black crop top with a black shorts. I got changed into it and came to the stand.

The girl who gave me clothes introduced herself saying, "I'm Victoria. You can call me tori."

"I'm Isabella, you can call me Bella."

"I heard that you worked here."

"Yeah, but i quitted."

"Can I ask why?"

"I don't know whether you heard the entire gossip. It's because the owner of this club, Max. He assaulted my coworker so I fought him for some bullsh*t justice and I quitted when it was a failure. Because the girl who I was fighting for backed away and made me a fool."

"That's bad. Then why did you come to this place again?"

"You know the answer. Money." I lied to her.

"Yeah, the money's good here. By the way, which college do you go to? I'm from Westeros."

"I'm in my second year of high school. About to graduate."

"A High-Schooler? But you don't look like one. You're tall and a little bit muscular and hot."

I chuckled and said, "I play basketball so I grew a little height for myself."

"Woah! I love basketball too. Actually, My boyfriend's a part of the college team."

"That's cool! Lucky him."

While I was talking with her, One of the customers asked for his drink. I served him seven shots arranged in a wooden log.

"Wow! You were so cool!"

I laughed and said, "Experience. You'll get it too." And winked at her.

Adam came to the stand. He's one of the guys who works for Max. Even though I never saw him doing any work inside the club, I've seen him do bad stuff like beating up the people who didn't pay for the drinks. Tori asked him what he wanted to drink. I didn't know Adam drinks in the club. Does he?

He shouted at her, "How many times will it take you to remember that I work here too?"

Tori apologised to him but he didn't seem like he took it and turned to me and said, "Bella, Max asked for you." And left.

I let out a sigh and thought, 'Why does he want to see me?'

I turned and looked at Tori. She looked upset.

"Hey! Don't take it to heart. He's like one of the crazy dogs working here. He was like that to me when I first started working here."

"What happened after that?"

"He couldn't tolerate my attitude so he stopped being a sh*t to me."

She smiled and said, "I couldn't believe I'm taking advice from a High-Schooler."

"Are you trying to mock me?" Asked while smiling at me.

"You're a talkative person, aren't you?"

I said to Tori that I'll be back and started walking to Max's office.

When I entered, I saw Max washing his hands in the sink.

I said, "Adam said that you wanted to see me."

"Yeah, sit down."

"It's fine, I'll stand."

He walked towards me and pressed his hands over my shoulder and made me sit on the couch and walked to the sink to continue washing his hands. What was he washing?

When I saw my shoulder, I found blood stains on my shoulder.

"What the hell!"

I ran to the bathroom in his room and barfed a little.

He gave me a water bottle and patted me on my back.

I snapped his hand saying, "Don't touch me with those bloody hands!" Gargled and washed my mouth.

He raised both of his hands up in the air and said, "It's all cleaned. Can I touch you now?"

When I took a step back, he continued, "I was just teasing you. I can't keep losing my employees."

"Why did you ask for me?"

"Do I need a reason to call you? Since it's your first day of work, I just wanted to see you. Were you comfortable with your new coworker? What was her name?"

"Victoria."

"Interesting. You know her name already? I know you get along with people so easily but I didn't know it was this soon."

"Did you really call me to ask me about my first day? That's so fake."

"You're smart. Well, let's be serious. Why did you quit all of your jobs and go to work for Mr Sun?"

"Who's that?"

He let out a chuckle and said, "Don't try to oversmart me. Why are you working for Mr Sun? Did he know that you worked for me? Did you share my underground business with him? How much do you get in return?"

I stood from the couch and said, "I think you've gone nuts. Better see a therapist or psychiatrist."

He pinned me on the door and asked me, "Why are you working for him? Did you come here to spy me? I was surprised when you accepted my offer but after knowing that you work for him, it makes me suspicious."

"Who are you talking about? I don't know anyone named under the name Sun!"

"Why are you working in Sundown cafe?"

"Because the pay is good. What is it with you?"

"I knew that they never let an outsider work for them. Then how did you get the job?"

"I knew one of the family members. He's my friend so he recommended me for the job. They took me in as a replacement for my friend. Why are you asking me?"

He let go of me and sat on the couch and said, "You don't know who Sun is?"

"No!"

"You're not a spy?"

"Are you sick? By the way, Who is this guy you were asking about?"

"You don't have to know about that. Get back to work."

I opened the door and made my way out.

When I came to the stand, Tori was serving customers.

"I'm sorry." And started working along with her.

After finishing work at 10 pm. I returned to Mr Martinez's house. The door was closed like I expected. Good thing, I borrowed a spare key from Rose.

I closed the main door after coming into the house. I walked upstairs and slowly walked to my room. I dropped on the bed without showering since I got tired from working. Did Mr Max go crazy? Why is he asking me about someone I don't know? Wait. He mentioned a name. What is it? Ha! Sun. Sundown cafe? Max runs a nightclub to cover up his underground business. What does he have to do with Sundown cafe?

I called my friend who recommended the job to his family cafe. Please answer.

He took the call.

"What's up?"

"I wanted to ask you something. Are you free?"

"Kinda. What do you want to ask?"

"Do you know anyone named Sun?"

"Yeah, my grandfather."

"Sun is your grandfather's name?"

"Yeah, what happened?"

"Nothing. I have to go. Bye."

I ended the call with him.

Sun is his grandfather's name. Yeah, thinking about that, Charlie said that his grandmother fell in love with his grandfather and got married and opened a cafe together under his name.

If someone named Sun does exist, what does he have to do with Max? Does Max know him? Actually, Max sounded mad while asking me so he does know him. He asked me if I said anything about Max to Sun. He asked me if I was a Spy? He sounded like they two were rivals. Does that mean Sun is a mafia too? I shook my head and knocked some sense into me and got out of the bed. I think showers will help me to get rid of these unwanted thoughts.

After getting out of the shower, I dried my hair while looking at my phone.

Someone knocked. I think it's Mr Martinez. I walked over to the door and opened it.

He looked awkward and gave me a card saying, "If you need more money, you can just use this card."

Did he think I worked, since I'm running out of money?

"It's fine, Mr Martinez. I don't need it."

He took my hand and placed it facing upward and placed the card on my palm and said, "Take it." And tried to leave his room.

I said, "What about after the contract? Do I still get things like this?"

He walked to me and stood in front of me and looked into my eyes and said, "If you ask, I'll give."

I got chills when I heard it from him. What is this atmosphere? Why wasn't he going to his room? Why is he looking at me like that? Where is he looking at? My lips? Is he going to kiss me? He started coming closer to my face. Is he going to kiss me again? I started breathing heavily while he was coming closer. I felt like my whole body got heated up. My heart suddenly started to beat faster. Why are you throbbing like that? I closed my eyes since I couldn't tolerate seeing him close. I felt his thumb touch my neckline and rubbed it. What is he doing? I opened my eyes to see.

He said, "There was still foam on your neck."

Arghhhh! I got embarrassed!!!

"I-I gotta go. Good night." And closed the door abruptly.

What were you thinking, Isabella? That was so bad! He's your boss! You're not supposed to think things like that! What if he knows about this? What if he throws you out of the house since you thought bad about him? Don't! Why did I even think like that? He's way older than you too! No! He's my boss and you're an employee. Just an employee. Remember that.