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After sending Sophia I got some customers. I helped them with choosing some dresses and they just left a few minutes ago so I decided to sit down and go through my novels since I haven't touched them for more than a week now. 

As I was going through my novels I heard someone entering the boutique but didn't bother to look up thinking that it might be one of my customers.

The room fell to an eerie silence all of a sudden as I could only hear the person's footsteps approaching closer. My fingers paused while turning the page and my heartbeat accelerated in no seconds.

I gulped down my saliva as I felt a strange feeling in the pit of my stomach. 

"Hello."

My eyes widened when I heard a husky and hoarse voice. I snapped my head up only to find the scar face looking down at me with his elbow on the counter.

I gulped a big lump forming in my throat and hesitantly matched his blazing eyes, sharp enough to cut through my soul. 

"Ahh um we don't have a men 's collection here." I tried to act normal with him by taking him as my customer. 

His gaze snapped up at the door of my second floor and I immediately stood up. "We don't have a men 's collection here." I said once again in order to get his attention and so on I did. 

His eyes..... he shows no emotion, nothing yet those eyes are so powerful. 

"I'm here to buy a dress for my girlfriend." He said and I nodded. He has a girlfriend and still he is a jerk. That girl might be from his gang. 

"Show me your best dresses." He said and I nodded. "Sure sir, this way." I said and walked past him as he slowly followed me behind. I mentally slapped myself for calling him 'sir', no need to respect him but hey right now he is standing in my boutique and he hasn't said or done anything wrong so I'll be good as long as he acts like a human. To be honest he hasn't done anything to me yet but that dog of his is definitely a jerk. 

I walked towards my best dresses and grabbed one of them as I shoved it in front of his face.

"This one." I said and he caressed his fingertips on the dress. My eyes slightly widened when I heard something falling down on the second floor. His head once again snapped towards the second floor door and I just shut my eyes in horror.

Oh no! 

"O-oh I guess...my c-cat is awake." I said and he looked at me. He caressed the dress and shook his head. 

"No." He rejected the dress in my hand which kinda boiled up my inside so I took out the most expensive one I have in this boutique. The most beautiful and expensive one. 

"Here." I said while showing it to him and he caressed the expensive fibre with his fingertips. All of a sudden he grabbed the dress from my hand and attached it to my body to check it on me. 

"Sir, what are you doing?" I asked and he shook his head. "Oh, don't take it the wrong way. I was just checking it on you because you look like my girlfriend." He said but somehow it felt sarcastic.

"And it looks ugly." He said and shoved it in my hands and my jaw clenched in anger. He insulted me indirectly. Stupid man!

He snapped his eyes back on the door and it felt like he wasn't here to buy clothes but he came here rather to check up on me. 

"If you don't like any dress then you may leave." I said and once again he looked at me. "No, no..pack this one." He said and grabbed a dress as he shoved it in my hands without even looking at the dress. 

I said nothing and rushed up to the counter in order to pack his dress because he was continuously gazing up at the door and it felt like he's hundred percent suspicious.

"Here you go, sir." I said and walked towards him as I forward him the bag. He looked at the bag and then at me. 

He was about to grab the bag but he intentionally grabbed my hand making my breath hitch as I left the bag and it fell down on the floor. 

I tried to snatch my hand away from his grip but he didn't left my hand. "What are you doing?" I asked but he didn't leave my hand, no matter how much power I applied he didn't even budge. 

"When did you find your cat?" He asked and my eyes widened. I could feel him smirking through his mask. He jerked my hand away, making me stumble back as he bent down and grabbed the dress. 

He glanced at me and walked out of the boutique without even paying for my dress and guess what? I can't object unless I want to suffer all day long and my peace is really important to me.

He even knows that my cat is missing. 

Obviously the police told him.

I'm totally confirmed now that he is having eyes on me.

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AUTHOR POV

The police officer hesitantly gazed up to match the eyes of the man sitting in front of him with a knife in his hand. 

"D-Do you need something?" The officer asked as he put his hand on his lap in order to control his trembling legs. 

"Did you...find her cat?" Sebastian asked as he kept his gaze fixed on the knife as he caressed the knife with his fingertip. "No...we haven't." The officer said. 

"Then stop looking for that cat." Sebastian said and the officer frowned in confusion. "Why?" The officer asked and his soul left his body for a fraction of a second when he saw the man in front of him smirking through his mask. 

"Because she doesn't have any cats." Sebastian said. 

"She's indeed clever but she can't fool me." Sebastian whispered to himself.