Do you like chocolates?
Before the morning alarm began to ring, Lisa's angry eyes were already wide opened.
She lay on the bed looking at the ceiling as she began to dread the new day already.
She couldn't sleep. She just couldn't sleep. Whenever she tried to close her eyes to rest, his annoying face suddenly pops up in her mind— especially that smirk of his that she hated so much.
She thought back to last night. Because she had to feed Tom, she couldn't use a chopsticks but a spoon and fork instead.
When she fed him the first spoon, he only chewed once and stopped, then he frowned a bit before he began to chuckle.
She knew instantly that the food wasn't tasty. She hadn't bothered tasting it because she did not want to know how it tasted. But seeing his amused face right now, the only thing she could think of was to snap his neck after snapping Li Chen's for making her embarrass herself.
"Quite peculiar." He complimented with a smile and continued to chew.
She had seen it— the smile on his face. Did he derive pleasure in frustrating and annoying her?
He had even stuck out his chin for her to help him wipe his mouth.
As she remembered everything again, she began to boil with anger to the point where her eyes turned watery.
She could not believe he had made her go through all of that. She could not believe he had subjected her to become a babysitter and there was nothing she could do about it because she had to be polite at all cost.
Her eyes darkened while her hands were fisted. She made up her mind that as soon as she was done with this mission and mr Hwang successfully became the governor and she was moved to second rank, she was going to stab Tom to death.
She was going to stab his heart so he would look at her while she did so. Then she would smile and remind him of everything he did to her.
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"You have to follow him. Find out every single detail about him." Tom instructed the Private investigator.
He was very sure that Li Chen was not as genuine as he looked. With many ladies flocking around him, there was a whole lot of possibility that he was cheating on her.
He was going to make sure he dug into Li Chen and show Germany the kind of person her so called boyfriend really was. He was certain this would be in his favour.
Immediately the call ended, another call came in from Amanda.
The proud smile disappeared from his face when he saw Amanda's name. He thought about ignoring it but wondered why he had to do so? So instead, he took the call.
"Hi. Still sleeping?" Her cheerful voice asked.
"No. I'm awake. How are you?"
"I called to ask you that. How's your arm?"
"I visited the hospital yesterday. So I am good."
Amanda sighed in relief. "Thank goodness"
There was a long and awkward silence after that.
Tom didn't know what else to say. Amanda on the other hand, wondered why he wasn't saying anything. The Thomas she knew in the past was a chatterbox around her but this one was really taciturn and it made her feel very distant from him.
"I'll drop by your place. If you're sick you'll need someone to take care of you."
"I am fine." Tom declined her offer politely. Aside from the fact that he was really fine, he didn't like people coming to his house.
But this was Amanda right? He asked himself as he wondered what was suddenly up with him. In the past, there was no way he would have declined this kind of offer from her.
"Thomas Hwang, I am coming. Remember you owe me two dates. Let's assume this is one of them. I'll cook. See you"
Before he could say anything else, the call already disconnected.
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By the time Tom left his room, he was already casually dressed in a tee and short. He didn't want to tease her too much by asking her to help him dress up. And since he could do without breakfast, he did not bother to ask her to prepare anything.
Imstead, he placed a call across to Lisa to ask her what she wanted to eat so he would order it for her. But she told him she was fine and still remained inside her room. Out of boredom, he returned to his room was he waited for Amanda's arrival.
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Lisa thought it was the best time to feast on her chocolates since she did not eat any last night because she was too annoyed.
She had thought her day would be quite busy but luckily for her, because Tom was injured, he could not go out so she was free for the entire day.
She locked herself inside the room, closed everywhere, manipulated the bugs, and placed a video call across to the base while projecting it on the window's curtain.
"I heard you caused trouble when you came around. Thankfully, he didn't die." A middle aged bald man, dressed in a black suit said to her. He was referring to the incident that happened a few days back where she stabbed a man for refusing to acknowledge her as a leader because she was a woman.
"He should be grateful. If I wanted him dead, he would have joined his ancestors that very moment." She said casually while tying up her hair in a ponytail. Her action reminded her of how Tom had brushed her hair with his hands and she quickly shook her head to get rid of that annoying image.
"You've grown soft. The you in the past would have killed him. I am glad you changed." The man said with a chuckle.
"Just like I would have killed Hwang Thomas also" She hissed.
"But you cannot. You shouldn't have those thoughts." He reprimanded.
"I am only doing this for a reason. You know better than anyone." She pursed her lips before changing the topic "Did you find it?"
"Yes. It was dark knight."
"I thought as much. They must be really determined to get rid of Hwang Thomas. I'm sure he thinks they are after him because of his father. Tsk!"
"You have to be careful Lisa. They must not know who you really are. And you must protect Hwang Thomas from them no matter what."
Lisa paused to brood on that statement 'who you really are' Who was she really? Did she have a permanent identity like every other normal human?
"No problem. I'll be careful."
"Good. I'll send you some documents. Go through them and tell me what you think later."
"Alright." After saying that, she hung up immediately.
When the documents came, she spent the next hour going through them attentively. She began to lose focus when she remembered the chocolates inside the fridge.
The urge led her inside the kitchen and made her open the fridge.
She frowned when she could not seem to make a choice because they all looked so nice and tasty.
When she made out sounds of Tom opening his bedroom door, she knew she had to leave there so she quickly picked three and dodged back to her room.
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Tom settled himself inside the kitchen to have another cup of coffee.
Amanda had called again to let him know she was going to be arriving soon and he still had a mixed feeling about that.
He suddenly felt hungry since he didn't eat much last night because his lovely bodyguard was a terrible cook.
When he opened the fridge for a cookie or something, his eyes landed on the chocolates and he suddenly remembered Anna had given him one the other night.
He ran his eyes over the fridge a couple of times and still could not find it. He also noticed that his chocolate had reduced again.
Something was not right. There was no way a chocolate loving ghost was staying in the same house with them right?
It was just him and Germany in the house and he could swear that Germany was too hardhearted to be stealing his chocolates. She didn't look like the type of girl who loved chocolates.
He had to talk to her so they would know whether there was a thief or ghost entering inside his house.
On the second knock, Lisa opened the door. Tom was about to ask her something but paused to stare at her in surprise.
The side of her lip was smudge with something that looked milkish brown.
'It couldn't be right?" His eyes widened.
"Germany?"
"Yes Mr Hwang"
"Do you— like chocolates?"
Her body suddenly stiffened. For a few seconds she was quiet before she managed to shake her head to tell him a no.
"You do not like chocolates? Then that means you didn't take mine?" He asked with a raised brow.
She opened her mouth and tried to say something but nothing came out. But she knew she had to force something out.
"I didn't take it." She tried to sound like her usual aloof self.
"Oh...I see"
He moved closer to her until he was standing directly in front of her.
A smirk appeared on his face before he used his thumb to graze the side of her lip that was stained.
He looked at his hand and to her shock, he led it to his lips to have a lick.
This time, she couldn't hide her shock. When he noticed that her eyes looked wider than they usually were, his brain suddenly registered what he had just done and equally looked at her in shock and confusion.