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d with my brother, I avoided his gaze and poured some scrambled

Sebastian asked. "You don'

"I'm not going in today. You're finishing classes

as lucky as me to get the opportunity so often. In fact, it had been up to

m happy or anything, I hope he gets better soon..." I snickered at his attempts t

now,

th a notification and I picke

ot comin

I'm a bit

d be able to function fully if I went in for my shift, no

an extra shift anyway so I'l

your application t

was re

il:

abe. I hope you're

:

was getting this butt hurt over a job rejection. Even weirder because I'd ant

doing anything actually useful. I just crept int

the rest. Rest was not something I could afford ever since I found myself p

ht the fresh air would do me a lot of good and it really did. I

d birds chirping pierced through my thick bubble of relaxation. It really was s

ately, tapping and scrolling away, but today, I decided to be a functioning membe

ts play, but when I finally picked my phone again, the time told me it was nearly an hour. As

ecting anything of that sort. Still, I went to check it, but just as my finger

red around something, or maybe someone. I couldn't really see anything around the tight crowd but also I wasn't pa

uldn't forget even in my dreams, a voice that was deeply familiar in ways there wasn't any reason to be. I loo

Black

om the bland crowd in an attractive designer suit that covered his body like it was second skin. He drew all eyes and attentio

sually given his status. I should have noticed that the crowd surrounding him consisted mostly of paparaz

super important man, basically a celebrity. But really? T

ted in my seat. Kyle caught me staring. Blushing, I ducked my head into my phone and tried my hard

fter, "Kyle, you bastard!" Looking to see who it was, I spotted a woman I hadn't noticed before. Big red locks spilled el

tire place to hear, Kyle still had the decorum to speak in a calm, lowered tone. He cou

pieces of what it was about. Kyle looked really annoyed, perhaps becaus

then! If the so-called woman is here, freaking show her to me else

to move out of that fierce gaze but it felt like I was pinned by it. Kyle's expression changed from vexation

stretched out a hand. Everywhere was quiet as it had been since the moment h

let's go." Kyle said, his deep voice

naged to croak,

Come on, let's go." Blue eyes stared unmoving at me but in the depths of the

He let go immediately and I found myself missing the warmth of his grip, but

eir places around us and Kyle called out, "No one follow me or I will be pressing

*

lp but feel like this was some sort of strange dream. About a week ago, I had never met this man. Kyle Blackwell was an u

workplace ... yeah that sounded like something my mind made up

ite my inclination to not care and hold

napped out of his daze and nodded. "Yeah. Sorry for dragging you into all of t

mpathized with him. Distantly, I registered the feeling of warmth around a part of my body. My

ng anything about it. I didn't want to see his disgusted reaction. The way he flinched away from me a we

fingers from twitching and the taller man loo

o get away from me, huh? Still, I couldn't help but notice he'd squeezed before doing so. It was such a miniscule mov

oat caused me to look up at him. "Sorry again,

dom statement, I stared dumbly for a while,

blue eyes soft as he watched me.

Christ, this is so awkward. I tho

hy the way he said it felt so familiar. I wanted him to explain to me why a feeling so hot and right

able with a strange hint of sadne

elf into my featur

ll see you tom

d been watching us with a shocked look on her face. I didn't get why she was shocked, just like how

thing that coincided with what I was about to do thos

sat an email from Lu