My Angels and Demons

7. Lies, Lies, Lies

Kori POV

Did I saw that happening., my beautiful bossy boss gets flustered to a man’s charm and that too more than once, wow! I didn’t think I would live to see this day but it happened in the most unexpected way I have thought of. Samael must be something, clearly he swooped my girl off her feet.

I have been working with her from the day one she joined the team and I have seen many models and business men’s flirting and asking her on a date but she never showed interested or gave them any kinds of positive signs.

Many even thought that she is homosexual but even when she had faced such incidents she politely declined them and told them that she is 100% straight, this women is simply married to her job.

I myself have put efforts to make her go on a surprise date with an international super model, for which I got severe back lashes from her for invading into her personal life and she made me to do back-end documentation process for two months straight.

But ,that didn’t stop me, I always invade her personal space, am not a nosy person but am trying to be thankful for her. She was the one who introduced me to Marco, he was a model before joining the police force and we met because Nora asked me to work with him for a fashion show, which was not at all in my profile back then, deep down I know that she might had a hunch that we might get kicked off so she set me up with him making it all look like coincidental. Eventually we both kicked off pretty well. Exactly after a year Marco proposed me and I agreed instantly. Now even after 3 years we are still falling for each other and this is all because of Nora, who made us to cross our path, So here I am trying to do, what she did for me.

At first I thought she might hit it off with Mr. Christopher Adam,( Hey!! No office is immune to gossips), everyone in the office knew how close they both move and how bad is the martial life of Mr. Adam with the obnoxious queen Mrs. Rachel (formal Miss. USA). Rachel has a beautiful face and pretend to be all sweet and innocent but has the tendency to manipulate and boss around with people by giving “ I didn’t mean to” look.. she is pure evil with innocent face. Lately she has indulge herself more in office work, so that she could boss around, specifically she targeted Nora. When Christopher was noticed about this, he asked Rachel to stay away from the office and he even took a stand supporting Nora. Seeing all these that was going on between them, Everyone in the office, including me thought that it’s going to be Nora and Christopher that will end up together.

Nora and Christopher act like two soul one body., they sync well, they have each other back when needed, and they both look super cute together. And I was hoping for them to be together.

But day to day the whole office started to understand that there is nothing more than friendship between them, they both respected each other, it was seen sincerely in their eyes and behaviour.. they are our office Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. So that ship drowned before it even sailed.

Alex has started to show more of his appearance by picking and dropping Nora at the office. So most of the co worker’s thought that they two are dating, only very few knew that there was nothing steamy going between them. They both are complicated, they give us the vibe like “yes we are together but not so together”. Alex is perfect, its easily noticeable he won’t even think twice to kill a person who would even think of hurting Nora. This women must have lost her mind or sick for not accepting a man candy like Alex. Nora is being mystery everyday and she make me curious.

This curiosity has led me to do something stupid, I went through her stuffs in office cabin without her knowledge, don’t judge me, I did it out of care only, what if she is really sick , because that was the only possible explanation I could come up with since she was not willing to be with Alex. So I went through her stuffs hoping to find some medications or prescriptions. but I found something else, which was totally unexpected.

I saw some designs she was working on and two days later it came under the label ‘LN’. I asked her indirectly that is she working on any designs, just to be sure that nothing has got lost from her hands, surprisingly she said ‘no.’ she even convinced me saying that she was in lack of inspiration for the new design ‘ lies, lies, lies’ I thought to myself. So I did the calculations and voila “she is ‘LN’ “.

I should have been immensely proud for being to work under the greatest mind of the fashion world but on the contrary I felt betrayed and suspicious.

Suspicious because, I mean who would throw away such fame for living a double life, may be someone who is in boredom or not interested for being famous or someone who wants to stay hidden. Eventually I respected her choice , it’s her work ,it’s her decision to be known or to be unknown. So I didn’t say any soul about her true identity, not even to my husband, not even Nora know that I knew secret and hoped that she is not a serial killer who is in disguise.

After I knew her real identity, it was quite hard for me to be the same with her. I stopped being nosy, I concentrated more in the work than having chit chats with her, I made sure her works are not delayed because of me, which was weird because I felt quite distanced with her. Until one evening Nora invited me and Marco for dinner in her place , where she confronted me and said “please don’t be mad at me for being hard on you, it’s just you remind me of someone whom I miss so dearly and I always see that person in all your dorkiness have and do, seeing you distancing from me is really making me hard to work and focus on my regular life, so please do understand you are important to me , even if I act hard on you”. That little speech broke me, I started to weep like a child, till that day I thought only Marco loved me for who I am, even my own parents disowned me for whom I turned out to be.. but this most talented beautiful women right before is indirectly saying that she loves me and she doesn’t want me to be away from her and accept all my dorkiness. I rushed to hug her and she hugged me back dearly that moment was captured as pic by Marco, that was the moment I decided I will protect this women no matter what even if she is a serial killer.

Thinking all about this we reached to the office in silence and I had a glimpse of Nora blushing still thinking about what happened earlier with Samael. If this man can make my girl blush, I think he will be the one to make her come out of her shell.

I MUST FIND ALL ABOUT THIS MAN.