The Alpha King Call Boy – Chapter 95
Fiona
Nina got the full scoop on Iris by the time I arrived at the office.
Usually, I optimized my downtime during the half-hour car ride by reading the morning’s market indexes. I had more pressing business today though. I texted Nina every detail of what had happened the night prior, describing both the short, painful scene with Iris and all the stuff Alexander told me about her afterward.
a relief to see how
s: WTF?????
nger with inexplicable certainty.
ake my faith in my own intuition at all, but it did confuse me.
e thoughts and feelings that I’d had. It gave me some reassurance of my sanity.
I had answers to none of them.
ll be asking him more questions tonight.
goes. And keep your eyes open, Fi. You know that bitch is up to something.
nner date.
d immediately: I’ll be waitin
o my perfectionist impulses, of course. But other impulses were winning out right now.
needed more of the good
s craving it.
p.m., a new record for me – I was smiling and distracted as I walked from the car to our bedroom.
popped up from around the corner, coming down a palace hallway he
I surprise you? Sorry!”
lo, Iris. Yes, you did.” I took a sec
actually. I’m so glad I caught you!”
d set all my things down. “Is there something I can help you with, Iris?” I asked very patiently.
o, no. I just wanted to see what you were doing tonight.
g, toothy smile.
with the friendliness, and she was a bad actor. An over-actor.
ure she understood.
at?”
dine with my fiancé alone in the evenings. Our t
cy job.” Her mouth spread back out into the toothy grin.
neck stood on end.
f was ready to fi
s one of those moments that would be difficult to explain to anyone who wasn’t present to experience it for themselves. Iris’s energy was simply unsettling. She bored holes into me with her big, dark eyes, hardly blink
was too heavy to keep holding. I had several books in it today, along with my tablet.
ently as I could muster, “I apologize, but I will be quite busy with my fiancé over the weekend as well, Iris. Now if you don’t mind, I really need to be getting inside. I have been working all day and need to get off my feet.”
u.”
t in front of me just as Iris lurched for my bag. “Please, stop. I do not need you to do that.”
ad for that.
with, Iris?” I asked very patiently.
I just thought maybe you could use some help, since you look so tired.”
pected to make nice with this bitch.
y patience.
’m fine, thank you, Iris.”
you out. I’ll go with you to your room, it’s no big deal.”
rd to be nice, but her act was becoming infuriating.
lench my jaw. Bare my teeth. The effort it
obtuse look.
.”
. She acted as if I was a monster that had just viciously attacked her.
s done.
“Good night.”
away without another glance in her direction.
orming off in a huff and letting her see that she’d gotten under my skin. I walked at exactly the same, slightly-faster-than-average city dweller walking speed that I always do.
did not turn around.
bit. A crying act with comically over-exaggerated sobs.