The King of City

7 Not Everything is What It Seems

The next morning, Corrine got up very early to see that all the spy equipment that had been installed in the house was well hidden, the morning was icy so it gave her a lot of difficulties getting up at 4:00 a.m.

“Do you have insomnia?” Said a voice behind her that made her start with fright when she went to the living room to look at the microphones in the lamps. When she turned around, she realized it was Lionel, that he had only his underwear.

“No, I wanted to clean up a little.” Corrine said that she didn’t leave the impact, seeing that her task was no longer possible.

“At 4:00 a.m.?” Lionel asked her, which seemed like a very strange habit.

“And what are you doing awake at this time?” Corrine returned the question since she couldn't think of anything good and Lionel's semi-naked body only distracted her.

“The day is more productive if you start early when everyone is sleeping is the best time to think.” Lionel said sincerely.

“I'll make coffee then.” Corrine said to evade.

While Corrine was "making coffee" in the kitchen, Lionel started doing some morning exercises outside, despite the intense cold, which she took advantage of, who began to look everywhere for the hidden microphones to verify that they weren’t evident, suddenly, it occurred to her to hide such a device among Lionel's things in order to keep an eye on him, which prompted her to search his room, cautiously ascending so as not to be discovered, she entered the room. After a few moments of looking for the right point, she hadn’t settled for the exact place, so she went into the bathroom to see if something contrive to her, when suddenly, she heard something approaching, she felt very desperate. Where could she hide without being seen? “BINGO”, she thought, hid on the other side of the shower curtain, it was the only place she could have easily. She began to listen as he unloaded things, for a moment she thought he would go to sleep and that she could sneak out of the room. She couldn't be more wrong. Looking through a small slit in the curtain, she looked as Lionel entered the bathroom completely naked, at first, she was very scared to be discovered, but she couldn’t avoid looking a few times at his masculinity, soon he heard noises and he pulled the curtain which left her breathless.

“What are you doing here?” Lionel said surprised to see her in her shower and not exactly taking a bath.

“I was ...” Corrine said while thinking insistently, as soon as she saw a brush to carve the bathrooms, an idea came to her mind, “To clean up... Rather, finishing to clean up, this bathroom was too dirty and I was ashamed that you saw it like that.”

“And you weren't embarrassed to enter my room without permission?” Lionel said that he disliked the situation without realizing yet the need to put on a towel.

“Sorry, it won't happen again.” said Corrine running from Lionel's room.

He didn’t know what the hell had happened, but it seemed too strange her behavior, however, he didn’t give much importance, after all, the girl had been living alone for a long time, Lionel thought to try to justify her, however, he would make sure that his door was always locked. Meanwhile, Corrine wasn’t recovering from the scare that had been brought in that room, she thought that maybe Lionel would suspect something after that, so she couldn't implant any spy device on his room, although "not everything went so wrong," Corrine thought, the image of naked Lionel not yet erased from her mind.

The next day, Corrine thought she should apologize for what happened the day before, so she got up very early to make breakfast.

“Are you hungry?” Corrine asked Lionel in a tender voice

“Not really, not long ago I had a protein shake.” Lionel said sincerely, without thinking much about why she asked the question.

“The truth is that I made you some eggs, with some bacon and hot cocoa, if you want.”

Corrine told him, excited that he accepted her invitation since she had already spent the entire morning cooking and washing kitchen utensils, since cooking was never one of her most outstanding skills, on the contrary, she always had employees in the kitchen.

“I find it a very nice gesture on your part, of course, I’ll have breakfast with you.” Lionel said out of courtesy because it was true that he had already had a protein shake as part of his strict diet.

“I already give you your plate” Corrine said that moments later she brought the ready-to-eat food with her.” Try them and tell me what you think, I confess that I don’t usually do this.

“Let's see!” Lionel said seeing that the preparations looked appetizing, “Mmmmmmm Delicious! It's very good!” Lionel said so as not to hurt the feelings of Corrine who had tried so hard, what's more, he has never tasted something so salty in his life” But you served me a lot and I’m already full, I’ll leave a little-

“Don’t worry, I didn’t ask you if you wanted to” Corrine said smiling with satisfaction to see how her "innate" skills in the kitchen brought her closer to her goal and her research, tremendous was her disappointment when she tasted her own preparations and realized that everything was disgusting.” You know I think we shouldn't eat that.” She said removing the dishes and making an effort not to vomit what she had just eaten.

“Let's go! It wasn't so bad.” Lionel lied to make Corrine feel better.

“NOT? Then you will like to have part of this for lunch because there was a lot left in the kitchen.” Corrine said seriously, in order to catch Lionel in the lie who didn’t want to be honest.

“Noo! I just wanted ...” Both seeing that Lionel couldn't think of any more excuses, they laughed out loud.

“You're a vile liar!” Corrine said half-jokingly, but half-seriously, because of her suspicions of him.

“You know? Let's not worry about lunch, we will order a pizza.” said Lionel who wasn’t used to cooking either and wanted to remove the bad taste in his mouth with something other than his protein shakes.

After “breakfast”, they were both talking very closely, Lionel liked Corrine, Corrine too, despite his bad habit of leaving the underwear worn throughout the house, but she still maintained her habitual mistrust since she hadn’t yet finished her investigation and had to be very close to him to find out as much as he could and at the same time very distant in her feelings so as not to get involved more than she should, despite how nice and considerate he seemed to be. On the other hand, Lionel liked Corrine quite a bit, however, he suspected something of her, he had no evidence against her, but his instinct told him that she wasn’t entirely reliable and therefore he would have to be very alert of any movement that Corrine made. However, their pleasant conversation would be interrupted by a call that would make the atmosphere very heavy.