I Am Not A Clever Man Novels & Stories

Dating him had been a momentary lapse of sanity, but out of all the lessons my mother taught me, she forgot one of the most important ones. Sometimes when a boy does and says everything right, it doesn’t make him the one. Sometimes it makes him smart. Sometimes it makes him clever. Jayden had been clever.

"But I'm not leaving." Damn this man

“So you’re brave now?” “I’m not brave, Noel,” I answered, my voice hoarse but firm. “I’m smart. And I know that the one who wins in the end isn’t the strongest—it’s the wisest.” He laughed. A sharp, irritating laugh that echoed in the room. “Let’s see, Edmund’s daughter. Let’s see how far your brain will get you.”

That annoyed me more. "Guess it." I frowned, uninterested. "Do I look like a clairvoyant to you? If you remember, I told you I only have an average brain. I don't even have high IQ. I'm not a good reader either. I'm not like you..." I emphasized the last few words on purpose. Maybe it could trigger something. I don't know. All I know is that I should discover something about him. Like a code I need to decipher. "A simple guess will do, Eve. You're absurd." His tone was serious.

I said closing the door and walked outside. “I was already faulted as not a good person when I was living alone there for few years and you coming to my house at evening were not such a big deal. But here I have three sisters who are not kids. I don’t want anyone to talk bad about them so I think it is better if you leave and not come here again.” I said calmly. He smiled not little smiles which he usually gives but a big complete smile and said “How can you make me get attracted to you even more by every passing second?”

"Like you're sorry the company is failing. You're not responsible for the failure. You're here to fix it." "I don't know how to not apologize. It's kind of my default setting." His mouth almost curves into a smile. "I've noticed. But tomorrow, you need to be someone else. Someone who knows she's the smartest person in the room." "I'm not the smartest person in the room." "Yes, you are. You just don't believe it yet." He moves to stand behind me, close enough that I can smell cedar and coffee. "Again. Stronger this time."

“Yo, can you tell me the name of the smartest man that existed on the planet?” Even in my drunk hazy state, I could tell that the poor man was looking at me like I had lost my head, or was probably growing another one in addition to what I already had fixed on my shoulders. “You mean, Albert Einstein?” He asked incredulously while I nodded in excited confirmation. “Yeah, man. Yeah! How did you figure that shit out?” He shot me a pointed look as he wiped a glass clean. “I mean come on man, I maybe a bartender, but that’s not really rocket science you know.”

I no longer had the patience to try to answer, I would hit the pencil hard on the notebook when I didn't bite 一 Sometimes I had no difficulty in the exact subjects, but in front of other people it seemed that I had no intelligence at all. 一 Do you want help? 一 Arthur asked as he sat next to me. 一 If it's not bothersome at work, I want it. 一 I already finished, now let's see you here. He analyzed the question and then told me what to do, I didn't pay attention to anything he said, I just looked at him and thought how smart he was and how good he was being with me 一 and mentally answering his question yes, he has a chance but for fear he would never know

he stated. “Look?" I questioned, carrying a plate of meat to the back porch. “Yes. They only look clean. Not even the IRS would think to audit this guy. But they are a bunch of stupid pencil pushers. Whereas I am a brilliant mad genius werewolf,” he said. I could hear him holding back an evil cackle when he called himself a made genius.

he chuckled. "I am intelligent, considered a genius by some but I have my flaws, I hardly remember numbers that is more than 7 digits, I lack sense of direction. I am the only son" I feel like he is not going deep, there is something stopping him from being open to me "Is that all?"