Chapter 2

We reached the office. At this point, I just wanted to get the day over with. Thinking of George had ruined the day for me."Eloise," Anna called, stopping me from coming down from the car.

"Look, I am sorry for yelling at you. "It’s just that..." she took a deep breath and looked at me. "It’s been three weeks, Ely.

It breaks my heart to see you this way. He doesn’t deserve your tears. "You deserve someone better, and I know that," she said, looking at me straight in the eyes now.

I nodded my head, too focused on not crying my eyes out at the moment."You can let it out. Bottling all these emotions is not good for you," she said in a low and very calming voice.

"We’ll be late," I said, trying to smile. "And you are right."

"He doesn’t deserve my tears," I said more to myself than to her. She seemed to like the confidence I tried to put on because she gave me a soft smile."There you go," she said, smiling at me. She pulled me into a hug.

"You are still going for the date this evening, you know," I said, rolling my eyes even though she could not see me.

"Of course," I said in a sarcastic voice.We walked straight into the building. There was no way I was going to concentrate at work now, but I still appeared anyway. It was better that I was here than away.

The Lord knows what my boss would say if I were to skip work, even on a sick day.I walked into the elevator with Anna chatting in my ear at my back.

I could care less about what she was saying, but I made sure to nod my head and say a little "hmm" and "yeah" any chance I could get.

Just before the doors closed, a guy entered. His aura seemed off. His skin—the part I could see from under the suit—was pale, too pale.

"Good day," he said, turning back to greet us.I almost lost my footing because I moved back a little.

I saw his sharp teeth as he grinned.A vampire."Stay away from supernaturals!" My mother’s warning ran through my head.I looked around the elevator.

There was no way out."Fuck!" I screamed internally."Are you okay?" Anna looked at me with worried eyes."Super!" I said, taking a deep breath.

"I just can’t breathe." It happened a lot. When I got too overwhelmed. When I got overwhelmed, I went into a panic."Miss, are you alright?" He said this, looking at me with those dangerous eyes and sharp fangs.I looked at the wall behind him.

"He was getting off on the next floor," I tried to tell myself."ye.. yeah"  Just in time, the door opened, and he walked out, causing me to take a deep breath.

"Were you okay?" "You nearly scared me," Anna said, not knowing what to do."Yes. "The guy, he is a super..." I cut myself off.

Sometimes, I felt like I was being a bad friend since she did not know anything about my life and she was my best friend.

"Super what?" She looked at me, oddly confused."A super cute guy." Like damn!  "He really made me lose my ability to breathe for a moment," I said, laughing awkwardly.

"You know, babe, sometimes I think I’m the same one among us," she said, patting my back and talking like I was a little kid.

You have no idea how right you are. I thought to myself as we both came out of the elevator.

I walked to my office."Hey guys," I said, receiving a series of mumbles in return."Almara," one of my colleagues called my surname, halting me in my tracks. "The boss has been looking for you." He said this, wiggling his brows.

I tried as much as possible not to let out the frustrated sigh I was holding in."Great".  I said it through my teeth and walked to my boss’s office.

I hated my boss. He was one of the most self-absorbed people I have ever met. He did not know how to own up to his mistakes and always blamed everyone else for them.

"This is my trusted assistant." He said he was showing me off like I was a trophy. I was used to it, but that didn’t mean that I liked it.

My curvy shape and pale skinI couldn’t complain, though. My unique features are what got me this job. "Me having brains was just a bonus.""Good day, sirs." I greeted him professionally.

I could not help but notice how the youngest one among them looked at me from up to down. It made me cringe internally. He seemed tall from how he sat, and he had honey blonde hair and the deepest blue eyes.

"Almara, these are our newest partners." You would be taking Eric to the restaurant that’s about to open since he would be the direct partner with that particular branch.

"I nodded my head, taking a mental note of all I had to do."If that would be all, sir," I said, and he waved his hands dismissively at me."Kiss your ass," I mumbled under my breath. I hated my boss, but the pay was good.

So I really could not do anything about it. I went into my cubicle in an office and sat down.

I started preparing a schedule of my boss’s activities when I heard an awkward cough, followed by the feeling I felt not too long ago.

"Hi," the voice called out, startling me a bit."Hello!" I called, looking anywhere to see if anyone was around. There was no one.

Of course there wasn’t. This floor was strictly for the boss and his associates."Are you lost?" "Looking for something?" I said this as he came closer to me.

He was walking towards me in a predatory manner."I was wondering; you look stunning."

His pale skin seemed to look more papery this morning.His thirsty.I realised this with panic. There was no way I was going to be drunk in public.

I was going to be seen as the freak who let another freak eat!"Would you mind if I maybe wanted to grab lunch later on?""She wouldn’t," a soft but stern voice called from behind him.

I released a breath I did not even know I was holding.

Leave," the guy from earlier said.It sounded like a growl, but honestly, I could care less. As long as he gets this guy out of here."I’ll be back, love," he said, smiling at me.

"Hi, he looked as though he was bothering you," he said with a drool-worthy smile."Thank you," I said, nodding my head. I got back to work.

It was only a matter of time before my boss started yelling about his schedule.

"What’s your name?" he asked, still standing at the door."Almara," I said, still in a professional voice."I think I deserve a first name, don’t you think?" I mean, I just saved you from that creep.

He gave off a weird vibe, and the more I looked into his aura, the more I realised that he wasn’t human.

Well, this wasn’t good.I thought to myself as I looked at him from across the table.