Chapter 7

Angela

The cafe was busy today. A lot of customers were in and out and it was probably because it was Monday. Coffee with cake was a perfect snack for the start of a busy, stressful week.

I worked in the cafe during the day and a bar close to my street during the evenings. Both jobs pay well but the cafe pays

better.

You need to move your a*s faster, Angela. The customers won’t serve themselves,

1 lifted my head to stare at my boss, Charles, and gave him a weak. fake smile.

“Sorry, Boss, Loffered an apology even though it wasn’t necessary.

“Sorry doesn’t fix things, getting better at your work does. A lot of people want this job, you do better or f*cking walk out of my door,” he spat, nagging repeatedly about not moving fast enough.

1 hummed as if I hadn’t zoned out of the conversation.

Charles was a rude, condescending b*stard who paid better than others. That was one of the reasons why I’m still working for him. This job sorts out seventy percent of my bills. Unless I want to be homeless. I have no other choice than to take his words seriously.

The doorbell rang, signaling the entrance of another customer. heard a loud gasp from the girl beside me and that made me look up.

“Goodness gracious,”

My eyes landed on the new customer and I held my breath.

Darius His presence brought along light. There was a shift in the air. His domineering aura grabbed the attention of the humans in the shop as they all stared at him.

He was wearing a shirt that hugged his muscles and a black shade that hid his eyes. I won’t deny the fact that he looked so good you could assume he was cut out of a book. A romance fictional book

I shook my head, pulling myself out of the s*upid thought so I could think reasonably for a minute.

How the hell does he know where I work? What was he doing here?

He moved over to my spot without saying a word. I decided to ignore him and continued preparing the order I was busy

with

“Can I order some cappuccino? He requested when he realized I wasn’t going to say a word.

Make your order over there, I pouted to my colleague’s section

order here. Is that too much to

opened my mouth to give him a rude response but I realized all eyes were on hiu and me.

you like to order,

an eyrlow I don’t like

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one of my infamous fake smiles. “Apologies sir. Please, take a seat

He shook his head.

you. I’ll just sit over there

my statement, he walked over to an empty seat close to the window and

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they were enchanted, the humans still kept their eyes on him. I was so sure the stares were not because of his good looks, it was probably because of his

once in a while, when my eyes slipped to his corner. I found him staring at me. His shades were off now and I could see those blue eyes and the sadness that

behind me. I was so tempted to roll

didn’t make any

did he talk to

really.” I lied. I

tell Charles the bu*ger that a man bought me a

this place, the faster these lustful women

in

all about. I concentrated on reading their

Angela. If he stays here for one more minute, you’ll get fired,” he

and walked up

you

told him?” What was I expecting

just barge in here,

straight and stared at me. “All

you want? I know you’re

spend

around

keep sitting here and wait until you leave work so

staring me down with his

to leave, Darius,

only one way for me to leave this place and you know the answer to that,” he

at me.

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