Side story. cont.

it was a Friday morning like every other Friday mornings in Zhang buildings and architectural firm. most employees were working while others were pretending to work. employees likes Maya Xin who was reading a webnovel on her laptop. in her defense, she had finished all her work and she had nothing else to do. she couldn't just up and leave so instead she engaged in the fictional bliss called werewolves.

'I wish I am werewolf' Maya sighed to herself

-strong, mystical, beautiful, shape shifting creature and mostly importantly, werewolves have mates. a destined connection with their other half. wouldn't it be nice to have something like that? even before meeting your mate, just knowing that there is someone out there who is made for you must be nice -heck, it must feel amazing.

Maya continued to indulge in written fantasies. minding her own business like everyone else when -someone namely the project leader let out an obnoxious and loud laugh or cackle. she ignored it but the cackle continued.

when she looked up, she looked eyes with prettiest pair of hazel she has ever seen. the face that housed those eyes weren't pretty in anyway more like gorgeous, like stunning, like freaking delicious. this man. this absolutely stunning man is her mate. there were butterflies dancing in her belly, fireworks, unicorns and rainbows. everything that the novel described. it has to be.

the project leader and some other people flocked around her mate trying to impress him, trying to get his attention. her mate must be an important person at least to the company.

who is her mate and why is he here? but most importantly, should she go and say hello to her mate or stay back and play it cool. she choose the second option and it cost her. her mate left soon after and she wasn't able to see her mate for a whole two weeks.

when she finally got to meet him again, it was in the conference room.

according to the trustworthy gossips going around and some research, she found out mate -mostly known as Daniel Zhang, is the brother of big boss Zhang. he wasn't really involved in the business in fact he actually a reputable lecturer in a reputable university. no wonder he had that sophisticated scholarly feel to him.

Nerds aren't really her type she normally went for the jocks and athletes she even had a thing for car racers but damn. her mate is so fine.

Anyway, during their second meeting, she was the one presenting a new project to the executive staffs -quite a big deal and her mate left immediately after the presentation but at least he looked impressed by her work.

they say third time's the charm but third time is the time she poured pipping hot coffee on her mate. but the forth meeting, that was the charm.

someone stinked up the ladies restroom. the place smelt like rotten cheese, caviar and whatever preppy foods the overly preppy women in her office eat. good grief.

she would have gone to the restroom in the other floors of the building but her bladder felt as if it would explode any minute so she decided to use the men's bathroom. a simple sneak in and sneak out and everyone will be none the wiser

instead of easing herself like she primarily planned she found herself staring at a sculpt on sculpt master piece of hard abs and deliciousness. her mate was standing right there with two shirts in hand. one was neat and freshly pressed while the other had a large brown stain.

'coffee? pouring coffee on him is my thing' she pouted internally.

"uhm?.. hi" he mate said awkwardly. and the first coherent sentence she said to him since meeting him was -'nice nipples mate' and he said 'thank you mate. I got them from the nipple store down the street' they both laughed loudly at his joke but laughing with a full bladder was a bad idea, she could almost feel her bladder sack rip. without another word, she ran into one of the restroom's enclosures to relieve herself.

she didn't come out immediately after. she waited a bit in hopes that her mate would leave. there is no way she would be able to face him after embarrassing herself like that at least till after a couple of days.

after seven whole excruciating minutes in the bathroom cubicle, she decided that was time to get out. the bathroom was dirty quite the opposite but who would want to spend approximately ten minutes in a small cubical beside a toilet.

"I was starting to think you set up camp in there" her mate teased -wait a minute. her mate is still there? she shrieked and ran back into the enclosure.

after another minute or so, she peaked out but he was still standing there with a smug smirk on his face. she took a deep -really deep breath before coming out again.

"I'm Daniel. what do they call you" if he wasn't so handsome, she would have punched his face.

they call me Lady Kindleburg" she sassed.

"pleasure meeting you Lady Maya Xin Kindleburg" she was starting to have a love -hate relationship with that smirk.

"the pleasure is all mine mate" she played along.

she made a move to walk away from her shame maybe hide in her work space till after working hours but he held her back. she stared at his hand on her feeling the spark

'yep definitely my mate'

" I'm sorry" he said quickly removing his hand causing her to whine internally at the loss of contact.

"what do you want" she didn't mean to sound so harsh. it was the embarrassment talking.

"I was thinking. you seem like a cool person maybe we could hang out somewhere other than the men's restroom" he grinned.

"yeah. definitely" she grinned back.

hanging out with her mate AKA Daniel was fun. It made both male and female in her workplace jealous but she didn't mind in fact, she loved crushing people spirit -that must be her inner 'Grace's best friend' talking but whatever.

anyway hanging out with her mate was truly fun. his dorky genius and her outgoing awesome made them a dynamic duo. true and true. but all they did was -hang out. chilling and being friendly but that was the problem. she didn't want to be friends. she already have Grace and weirdly enough, Anna and Trevor too.

she wanted a mate.