Free Web NovelChapter 11: Most Beautiful Thing
At two fifteen, they managed to locate a fast food place they haven’t visited before and all settled on a table meant for at least eight people to dine conveniently in.
’’What can I get you lovely ladies this afternoon?’’
A tall boy in a not-so-fancy waiter’s uniform smiled beside their table. Berry blushed while Stylie hid shyly behind her. Lin only looked repulsed at how easily they were seduced at the sight of pretty men and boys.
The waiter, who couldn’t have been older than eighteen, smiled politely with a small tray placed behind him.
’’What...can you...give us?’’
Lin was embarrassed by their level of cringe. He tried not to die from it and looked away instantly, trying his best not to appear associated with them as he moved closer to their boss.
Corrine was seated at the head of the table with an ipad that used a stylus pen. She was more focused on the project at hand and busy sorting out the messy ideas in her head. Trying to draft the perfect outline for a story they could all work on and get it submitted before the deadline.
Marcus could choke on his stupid secrecy.
She would show him how easily she could earn her breakthrough without his help.
She crossed her legs under the table as the pen twirled restlessly in her hand. Her sharp green eyes focused on her employee’s disastrous flirting antics with someone who looked underage as she tried hard to think of something great.
Corrine frowned when she logged into one of her social media accounts.
Someone insane had found her account and liked all of her posts.
All five hundred and two pictures of her on her account had been liked.
’’What the...’’
That made Lin turn to his boss in concern as she grabbed her ipad and brought it close to her face in horror.
’’Boss, is something wrong?’’ Berry said in concern. ’’Would you prefer Coke over Pepsi because they seemed to have run out of Pepsi?’’
Corrine’s lips parted as she scrolled through the rows of notification her account had been bombarded with, all from one single account. It was strange because she barely got any likes or followers and her account had been almost inactive since she logged into it last in early January.
Was it some spam or...what was this?
Her eyes widened an inch as she clicked on the page of this mysterious new fan of hers.
Fire and brimstone was the name of the user.
Other than that, there was nothing she could figure out about this person.
Creepy.
She quietly backed out of the user’s page and decided to block and report. But before she did, one comment the user left sent a chill down her spine.
What made it worse was the time the comment was posted on one of her many posts, the embarrassing one where a stubborn goat kept trying to chew the hair off her head.
It was very recent.
Barely two minutes ago and she felt her breath catch in her throat as she read it.
’’Boss? Boss? Hello? Boss?’’ Berry kept trying to get her attention but she was too shaken to think if she preferred Coke over Pepsi this time.
’You look very sexy in red.’ frёewebnoѵēl.com
R–red?
Corrine found her eyes drifting down to the color of her suit before staring about nervously. Her heart skipped awkwardly as their eyes met.
No wonder everyone had been so restless and strangely lively ever since she came in here.
She should have known it could be because of him.
He sat alone at a table not too far from theirs. She saw how everyone quickly became disinterested in what they were having at the table.
All eyes were drawn to him like a magnet as many snuck pictures of the rich enigma having lunch at a place like this. People already gathered at the door, their faces pressed so desperately at the transparent walls of the restaurant outside to see what looked almost unreal.
He looked unreal enough to stop conversations and could easily pass at the most beautiful thing to have ever been created.
Corrine’s eyes were like bullets when he dared to wave at her. His smile remained innocent and annoyingly cute.
Grim shivered with his arms draped mockingly around his body when she wouldn’t stop giving him that cold look.
He then leaned more on the table to smile, as if there was nothing prettier for him to admire than her face.
Fire and brimstone.
More like a rich idiot with a Rolex.
Her gaze returned calmly to her ipad as she decided they could remain in the same space as long as she ignored him and he dared not make any bold advances towards her.
She will scream right after stabbing him to death with this fork if he dared.
Her gaze flickered to the neat set of cutleries arranged in a cup at the edge of the table.
Both Berry and Stylie remained uneasy in their seats as their Boss ignored their new intern.
Again.
How then are they supposed to win her over when the boss wasn’t willing to give him a chance?
’’Sorry if I sound rude or intrusive, but do you know that guy over there?’’ the cute, underage waiter whispered to Berry as he placed their order before them in a silver tray.
’’He has been staring at you all ever since he came. And thanks to him, people from across the street suddenly cared to patronize us.’’
SNAP.
Lin’s gaze widened as he froze midway through another sip from his milkshake. His eyes turned to their boss as the pen in her hands loosened from her hold to lay bent awkwardly on the table.
Now was her chance.
’’Boss,’’ Berry began nervously as the cute waiter excused himself. ’’He seems sincere enough, why don’t we give him a chance?’’
Sincere?
Berry turned to her food when her Boss gave her a disbelieving look.
It seems like everyone was already under his wicked spell and they were starting to make her feel unreasonable for not caring.
She removed her debit card and placed it on the table before them and stood up with her things and left.
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She walked faster, anger simmering hotter with every step as she made her way back to her office to get things done. Thankfully, they chose a restaurant not too far away and if they chose to remain in a place that reeked of foolishness so be it.
She would rather burn in hell than to make a nobody feel important just because he looked different.
And his growing obsession with inserting himself into her life wasn’t helping!
Corrine sighed as the cloud above grumbled again, soon to herald a downpour.
She should have just told him he was good-looking that day and be done with him!
She fished out her phone from her purse and was disappointed when Henry still hadn’t responded.
Why was he taking longer than normal to respond to any of her texts recently?
He wasn’t this nonchalant when he needed money or reassurance from her that she was his for life.
She doesn’t have this much time to waste on getting a single reply from him.
Was China that fun and distracting enough to forget about your terminally ill girlfriend?
As if the heavens heard her thoughts and gave her a booming response from above. One that gradually stained her top with the teardrops falling from the sky. Corrine cursed out loud as she was without any umbrella.
What was she to do now?
Return to the restaurant and let herself be more harassed by that creep and the foolishness that seemed to follow him everywhere or...
’’Tell me you hate the rain and I’ll make it stop.’’
Rain crashed heavily onto the streets. She saw how cars sped off and people ran helter-skelter to avoid being drenched.
Only she remained like a fool in the downpour. Her heart already responded...
To someone.
She turned, slowly and a bit unsure as she looked fearful as well.
He stood taller even with his hands buried in his side pockets.
Strangely, he seemed to have some invisible umbrella or a glass dome over his head that prevented a single drop from touching him.
Even if he was now dressed more like himself, rich, handsome and unbothered, not like the oversized jacket and ugly turtleneck he tried hard to fit into....
Corrine felt herself staring longingly at this stranger.
Was he truly divine? Or something much bigger than that?
He looked too unreal to belong in her world.
She found herself turning away to hide how red her cheeks must have been and wondered what the hell was wrong with her.
You have a boyfriend and you should always be repulsed by creeps, remember?
Grim smiled before taking slow steps towards his angel.
