The interviewer

Chapter eighteen

Her tongue got stuck at the back of her mouth and she couldn't answer the question. 

This man, was the most gorgeous being she'd ever set her eyes on. Unless you count the set of new born kitten she saw the other day, anything couldn't be cuter. His black hair fell in thick glossy waves around his head, his two ears were pierced and his soft chocolate eyes were staring intently at Lin wei. 

"Miss? Miss?," He called with his eyebrows raised. Lin wei almost melt into a puddle immediately. Even his voice was smooth and sinful like dark melted chocolate that makes her mouth water. 

"Oh yes. Yes of course! Silly me! Did you ask anything?" She replied breathlessly. She cursed her ovaries for going haywire at the sight of this drop dead gorgeous man. Like if he asked if her panties could come off, or if she could stuff...she shook her head and quickly dismissed that train of thought. She must be mad indeed. 

"My name is Lu Chen and I'll be in charge of this interview. Nice to meet you, and you are..?" His hand stretched forward and Lin wei gulped and she placed her in his. 

God, how well they fit. How well they'll fit! Infact, Lin wei thought to herself, she'll fit perfectly with the psychiatric patients if she should keep this up. The man, Lu Chen was staring expectantly at Lin wei and at their joined hand. No doubt,wondering if she was right upstairs. 

She wasn't. Her upstairs faculty took a break and gave the thinking function to her womanly parts. She needs to get laid and soon.

"Oh, forgive me! Where are my manners? My name is Veronica....Bang..sang...I mean, Wang! My name is Veronica Wang" she gave him a sunny smile. And cursed herself inwardly for acting like a dummy. 

Veronica Bang? For real? She was going to get kicked out for sure. 

"Miss Wang, what a coincidence. I'm sure you know of Ezekiel Wang?" He asked with a quick wink. 

Goosebumps erupted on Lin wei's skin at the mention of that name and her mouth filled with acid. She nodded nonetheless, never mind the fact that she's never heard that name all her life except for twenty minutes ago.

"Yeah, miss Wang I have a few questions for you and I hope you'll answer to my satisfaction." He said with a tiny smile tugging at the corner of his lips. He knows what he's doing, that one.

Oh she was going to satisfy him alright, and satisfy herself too with a punch in the face. 

"How old are you, miss Wang?" His voice turned serious and a bit flat. 

He couldn't be more sexy if he tried. And he wasn't even trying. 

"I'm turning 24 in a month," she lied smoothly, getting into character. 

She's just 22 and her birthday was six months ago but no one needs to know that. 

She sat straighter and pushed her nose into the air, making herself all the haughty and rich lady that she wasn't. She caught a whiff of his scent and breathed in deeply. 

No doubt Lu Chen must be planning a quick exit for her. 

"24, how nice! I'm 24 years too. What's your occupation?" He asked. 

"I'm a newly graduated student of Harvard University. I just got a degree in psychology and health care, not yet employed though" she added as if an afterthought. 

It wasn't. But all her words, pauses, hitch and laugh are all being calculated from this moment forward. 

"Harvard University? How nice. You must be an ABC judging from your accent and intonation. Shall we switch to English to make you much more comfortable to express yourself?" He inquired genuinely. 

Lin wei had no doubt this man would catch up with her lies in a thrice if she was to continue the conversation in English. It was already hard enough to form lies using her mother's tongue. Her brain had been replaced with tissue and cotton wool the minute she entered inside this room. 

"I'm actually comfortable with both. I had different language tutors right from my childhood days," she replied confidently. 

"That's great then. You said you study psychology and health care? Can you tell me anything about that?" He asked with his eyes twinkling. 

Lin wei gulped her saliva and nodded languidly, less her head fall off from her neck. 

"As psychologist, we deal with the neural chemicals and behavioral traits in human being. Studying their behavior to know certain things about them, and we reason them using what we'll call the "third or objective eyes". And the health care has to do with basic medicine and stuff" she finished with a flourish. 

She took a deep breath and filled her starving lungs with oxygen. 

"Wow wowsers. That's nice. Now the next question right here would be, your background," Lu Chen looked excited for some reason. 

But perhaps it was the golden chandelier reflecting inside his chocolate eyes. 

Lin wei mentally prepped herself for the next chore. 

"I'd give you a quick rundown, though I doubt you've ever heard of my father." She smiled sweetly at him. It was the kind of smile that makes you feel at ease whenever you're taken to the hospital. The kind of smile that a nurse or doctor would bestowed unto you that'll make you forget about worries. 

"Oh miss Wang, you'd be surprised with what I can find out with just a quick call" his eyes took on an evil glint but it was gone in a second and it made Lin wei think she perhaps was hallucinating. 

"My father is the CEO of WC and co. Construction company. It's just a fairly popular company in the US and I doubt people had barely heard of them in this part of the world." She laughed gently and covered her mouth in modesty. False modesty, the reason was actually because she was afraid he could see the way she was desperately grinding her teeth. 

"I see....," He replied absentmindedly as he punched some words into the laptop in front of him. He looked up and bestowed another generous smile in Lin wei's direction. 

She clamped her thigh together to keep the moisture from seeping into the floor. 

"That'll be all ...for now miss Wang. Kindly wait outside, we'll get back to you soon". 

Lin wei went out and closed the door with an ominous "click".