Winning You Over

Zailah's POV✨

I get to my office and bury myself In work but there's not

much to do because things have been quiet since my little trip to China. Word

must have spread about what happened to zhèngchāofēi so all those idiots after

me are laying low.

Due to the lack of workload I end up leaving the office quite

early and on my way back home I decide I wanted to prepare dinner myself so I

call Stacey and ask her to forget about dinner preparations. Once that's taken

care of I head to the grocery store to pick some groceries.

I arrive home a couple minutes after 6pm, head straight for

the kitchen and get started on dinner. Right after I pull the Peach Galette out

Alyssa barges into the kitchen,

"Hey stace, what's cooking?" she says her eyes eventually

widening a fraction when she see's it's me in the kitchen instead of stacey.

"Oh! miss kings, It's you."

'zailah for crying out loud, it can't possibly be that hard'

"Yes, it is me. Why? Disappointed?" I respond a playful

smile tugging at the corner of my lip.

She passes me one of those awkward business smiles and tries

to make an escape, but I stop her before she succeeds.

"well then, I'll be on my way"

"Hmm? Where are you going? I just finished baking our

desert."

"Come sit" I say as I begin to set up the plates on the dinning

table.

I finish setting up the dishes and meal on the table but

she's still positioned at the door looking indecisive so I pull out a chair and

gesture for her to sit, she remains hesitant so I don't budge either until it

becomes a staring contest and she finally gives in and sits.

Once she's seated I take a seat next to her and she give's

me a questioning glare. I find her reaction cute but pretend not to notice and

keep serving her food.

"I didn't know you cooked" she blurts out

"There's a lot we don't know about each other, No?!"

"Besides if I'm to win you over wouldn't cooking you a

delicious meal be the best place to begin?"

She doesn't say anything else so I watch her eat amusedly,

"Are you trying to cause me indigestion?"

"What do you mean?"

"You keep staring t me and its messing up my digestion

process?"

"Oh? How so?"

"I don't know, it just is"

The chuckle I'd managed to suppress finally finds its way

out of throat and she shoots me a glare from corner side of her eye, I clear my

throat and keep quiet. The rest of the meal goes by  silence and once were done eating I start to

clear up the table and while I'm at it she gets up to help but I seat her back

down,

"Just stay still, okay?!" I say leaning close to her, our

faces just inches away each other

"I'm trying to win you over, Remember?" Her eyes grow wider

and I pull away with a satisfied smile just as notice her ears begin to turn red. While she's recovering from the shock I finish clearing out the table, garb the desert from the pantry and the questionnaire in my laptop bag.

"Allyssa I want you go through this questionnaire, answer it

and return to me by Sunday, since we know little about each other this should help" okay that was a total lie, I already had a thorough background check done on her, but of course I don't want her knowing that.

It seems she's still in a daze because she doesn't reply,

she just nods slightly and slowly while staring off into space. Seeing this i decide to tease her even more. I bend over and pull her chair towards me, she

get's startled and turns to face me but our noses brush over each other, she

hiccups and her cheeks turn visibly red. She shoves me as hard as strength

allows her and heads straight for the door,

"hey, you forgot these" I call out, she stops in her tracks

turns around, rushes over to the table grabs her belongings and tries to bolt

again but I interrupt her movements once again

"and your dessert?"

She let's out an exasperated shaky breath and returns to the

table, then picks up the dessert

"Don't forget the questionnaire" she grabs it and makes her

exit.

"Cute" I mumble as I chuckle lightly. If she gets flustered

this easily flirting with her is sure going to be fun.

  I take my

  I take my time

savoring my dessert and reminiscing her cute reactions. I've always hated the

idea of sharing my home with someone outside my people but with her it doesn't

seem all that bad.

After finish up the rest of my dessert I wash the dishes and

utensils we used and head for my room, I go about my nightly routine go through

my mail incase of any work emergency and shoot Alyssa a good night text, she

reads it almost immediately but doesn't reply, instead I hear her groaning and

hitting something aggressively in her room. I burst out laughing and tuck

myself in 'this is going to be so fun.'

I wake at 5 am as usual and prepare for work, finishing a

couple minutes to 6am so I head downstairs and start preparing break fast.

Stacey always starts on break fast a couple minutes before I come down for

break fast so that I get to eat while the food is hot. Just as I'm done prepping

breakfast I get a call from work so I hand my food to Stacey write a quick note

on a sticky note and place it by Alyssa's plate, then head to work. On my way

to work a thought suddenly flashes through my head so I send her a text.

Zailah: Good morning pitaya, I had an emergency at work so I won't be able to have breakfast with you, but don't fret I still made you breakfast.

Zailah: Let's have lunch together instead *wink emoji*

I let a satisfied smile brighten up my face before switching

off my phone 'I wish I could see her flustered face one more time.'