chapter 4

When she came out of the office, she wondered who was the guy who waved her before she bumped into that hard wall. He looked familiar to her memory. 

Just as she was stepping towards her building for the class, she realized that it was the same guy who was checking her out yesterday. She was alarmed in pure terror. 

Why was that guy following her everywhere? She asked herself as anxiety started seep inside her veins.  

No! She has to report him if he appears again. She determined herself and took long breaths to activate her parasympathetic system. She was freaking out already and it always lead to severe panick attacks. But thank god, the inhaling and exhaling worked out and she avoided the panic attack which started to overwhelm her. 

She took the elevator and reached her class, which already started. She excused the teacher and sat in the last seat, exchanging some eye contacts with Nancy who was eager to ask what happened and why she got late. 

The class was over after an hour and Nancy rushed to her. They both went to the cafe and as usual two coffees were ordered by Nancy. She sat down with her and told her about the man she bumped into while walking to the office. 

"He seems scary, try to stay away as possible" She warned her. 

"But I'm thinking who is he? And what that creepy man is doing here in our university. He doesn't seem like some principal or a teacher " Veronica was stuck with his arrogant attitude. 

"Leave that shit, let me tell you a good news" Nancy made her hell curious in a minute and everything was gone from her mind in a second as she was more interested in the good news. 

"Guess what" Nancy wanted to make her wait till she's dying to hear. 

"Oh don't make me wait, I'm not good at guessing at all" Veronica was impatient at such things. 

" I talked to my brother and you've got the job I told you!" She exclaimed excitedly as she opened her arms to hug Veronica. 

The news lifted her mood at once and she couldn't believe her ears. It was the only thing which she had been worrying for since she arrived. A job! To fulfill her expenses, to buy warm clothes and save for hostel!

She hugged Nancy tightly and couldn't stop herself, fighting against the tears of happiness. 

"Jesus! Stop crying or I'll punch you in the face!" Nancy couldn't watch her crying over a job. 

"These are tears of happiness" She squeal in a low voice. 

Nancy smiled against her shoulder and hugged her back. 

The rest of the day went smooth with the overflowing happiness. Nancy informed her that she will ask her brother for the joining date and then she go there. The timings were perfect from 05:00pm in the evening till 12:00am at night. But she became worried that she'll have to talk to her hostel incharge for the flexibility in curfew. 

If she won't get a job, then she won't be able to pay her expenses. And she really needed it. 

In late afternoon, when university is almost empty, she returned to library to return some books and get more books issued. 

She sat alone behind the large table in library and there were only few students to be seen at the moment. She was reading the novel, when her eye caught the sight of the boy whom had been stalking her since the first day. She cast him a death glare as he was already boring holes in her body. 

He was checking her out and licking his lips in the process. She felt extremely uncomfortable with his actions and decided to stand up for her. She got up from her place and moved towards him. 

The blond guy who had a grin on his face while watching her coming towards him, almost thought that she's interested. 

"What the fuck are you staring at for so long?" She growled in a strict manner. 

"Nothing, particular. Just a girl who is magnetizing me the moment I laid eyes on her" he blurt out that cheesy line which made her more enraged than before. 

"Then get this fucking thing in your head that I'm not interested and don't ever bother stalking me again or I'll report you" she warned in a slithering tone as much as scary she could sound. 

"We'll see about that, senorita" he stood up from his place and whispered close against her ear before he walked away, taking long strides towards the stairs. 

She huffed a sigh and went back to her table. 

A week passed and she experienced nothing out of place. She didn't saw that blond guy again. She talked to her hostel incharge and finally convinced her for the flexibility in curfew. She told her how she's trying to manage her studies and job at the same moment and it's not possible for her to pay the hostel fees without having a job. 

The hostel incharge was a kind woman, named Luna who seemed to be cold outside but had a soft heart and understanding mind. She granted her the permission. 

Veronica got her hands on the job and in a day she was asked to join the hotel. She was a waitress at the hotel, and she only had to serve food to the VIP and regular customers. There was also a club in the hotel which had a separate value in the whole state due to its posh interior and luxury treatment. Only rich were allowed there who had a separate entry pass. At her first day, she accidentally went to the club management for her job and then they guided her that the waitress job was offered by the hotel beside it. 

The hotel in which she was working was a tall building with hundreds of room and a restaurant at the front side, beside the lobby. There was a passageway from inside the hotel to the club as both were owned by the same person and were related to treat people in the same place. 

Every night, billionaires and spoiled kids with their girlfriends came to hotel to enjoy their dates and then they would escape to the club late at night. Whenever she took their bill, she wondered how they don't even glitch while paying thousands of dollars for some two bite food and sometimes during family visits the bill would exceed thousands. 

She got on well with her colleagues and the hectic routine from hostel to uni, then uni to hotel and then again back to hostel. 

Coffees with Nancy and late night talks with the hostel roommates were escapes for her into happiness. She was enjoying her small social circle and busy routine. 

It was after a month when she was asked to serve in the club as well on weekends. The staff was reduced and instead of serving in restaurant for six days, she started serving in the club on weekends. The only way she accepted this change was a bonus in her salary. They shifted her to the club because they were looking for representable females ands she met requirements. 

She was extremely overjoyed by the bonus in her salary even if she had to work extra. She was already imagining about saving her extra to buy herself an apartment. Although it seemed impossible but she had high hopes. 

It was Friday, and she was late in the library as usual. She had to complete her assignment and she had one hour left before reaching to the hotel. 

Veronica got up from her seat to find the reference book whose rack was placed at the end of the library. She looked around and found no students at all around. She only saw the library incharge sitting at her front desk at the beginning of the entrance. 

Library was built on a vast area which had so many racks of books that one at front wouldn't be able to hinder someone at the back. She reached the end of the library and started looking for the books name. Sliding fingers across the books, she read their names along. 

Out of the blue she felt as if someone was standing behind her, she could feel the pressure and the heat radiating from the other human body. Her hands froze and she was about to turn around when a hand came across her mouth and silenced her. The other hand came around and grabbed both of her wrists at her back. She was pushed into the rack against the books as her face turned to side, her screams muffling against the culprit's hand.

When he pushed himself hard against her back, only then she realized that it was some musculine figure who was holding on her. 

Voice laced with seductiveness, he leaned closer to her ear and whispered.

"I told you senorita, I'll see about it. And I made my decision, you are too attractive to be left around. I cannot leave you without having a taste of you"