Chapter 7

Cole sat on his couch outside receiving the cool evening breeze.

He sipped slowly from his glass of wine with his gaze facing the sky, his mind pretty occupied with his new cook.

There was something fascinating, something different about her that he couldn't tell.

He wondered why he always had this cranky feeling whenever she's with him, the feeling to smile so he could ease her fear.

He was used to his workers being scared of him, so why's she different? He thought taking another sip from his wine.

Not only her difference that astonishes him also her meal.

He had emptied the whole content in the dish she had served him ;something he hadn't done in years.

Her cooking skills must be really outstanding to had made him emptied the whole content.

Just as her beauty is ravenous and also her cherry blossom lips are so damn cute that when she had tasted the meal he couldn't help but stare at her lips.

While taking in her features, the way she had munched the food, moving her lips sideway creating this feeling in him to pin her down to the dining table and kiss her till she's beneath his leg begging for more. Cole thought licking his lips.

Unknowning to him his best friend, Leonard has been observing him for the past fifteen minutes.

"Back to earth, man" Leonard snapped tapping him lightly on his back.

"What the hell!" Cole jerked up flinching.

"What was that for" he questioned.

"You've been lost in thought for the past minutes if not hours,dude" Leonard replied sarcastically.

"Really" he drawled arching his brow skeptically.

"What were you thinking, dude?" Leonard queried still standing at his back.

"What do you think, man?" Cole smirked mischievously.

Leonard turned to face him, staring suspiciously at his friend.

"I don't think I have an idea, man" Leonard replied, his gaze narrowed at his friend.

" Do you intend on standing all day"? Cole snapped as he watched Leonard sigh before sitting on the next couch facing him.

He was searching for a reasonable excuse to say to prevent Leonard from questioning him further.

He knew Leonard wasn't that naive to believe any lie he could come up with.

Since he couldn't tell him his new cook was stucked up in his head.

He sat up straight, having decided to wave the pep talk aside , he straighten up his posture in a business like manner.

"So, have you made researches on the new task we're to embark on?" He questioned Leo offering him a glass of wine.

Leonard collected it from him and gulped Down it's content before speaking up.

"Man, I've got everything in it's rightful place just that we've got a problem" Leonard replied as his once smilling face turn worried 

"What's the problem" cole asked staring keenly with wide interest at his friend.

Leonard hesitated for a while.

"Alicia is back" he dropped the bomb shell in a low tone.

Cole freezed, his body tensed curling his fist into a bawl.

The glass of wine he was earlier sipping from fell to the ground with a thunderous sound as it shattered loudly.

"It can't be true ,man" Cole said with anger in his voice.

"I had shot her with my gun and watched her took her last breathe before I left there" Cole said clenching his fist as he paced from one side of the room to the other.

The air stilled for some minutes with Cole pacing around and Leonard sitting on the couch with his face facing the floor.

"If you're certain you had killed her, don't you think she had pranked is" Leonard spoke up voicing out his thought, breaking the silence.