I’M A BRAT AND I’M IN LOVE
(No more broken hearts)
Chapter 18
Levi’s confusing words left Rika in a daze. She spent the rest of that night and the following days replaying the scenario in her head.
Her brain just couldn’t come up with any possible answers.
Did he have feelings for her?
No, that wasn’t it.
Was he playing a joke on her?
No. That couldn’t be it either. Levi didn’t joke. At least not like that.
She rubbed her face in frustration. Her mind was on high alert and she hadn’t been able to get any sleep. Everytime she closed her eyes, Levi’s deep gaze and low voice would flash in her minds eye, and she would wake up flustered.
She was going cr@zy!
Levi wasn’t the kind of person to toy with her emotions like that, he knew how she felt about him didn’t he? So, maybe he was confused about his feelings?
No! She didn’t want to get her hopes up.
In the eight months they had known each other, Levi had never hinted or shown any form of romantic attraction to her, she had been the one pursuing him.
She bit her lip. He had been completely silent the whole way back home that night, and his expression had changed to something she couldn’t even begin to understand.
“Miss Sato? Miss Sato!”
Rika snapped back to reality at the sound of her name. She looked up and saw Miss Beacon staring at her with beady eyes. She smiled at her scornfully.
“Have you come here to daydream all day Miss Sato? Or to work?”
Rika smiled back. “I think you know the answer that Miss Beacon,” she answered sweetly.
Miss Beacon chuckled.
“Your stupid sarcasm won’t work on me today young lady. I want you to go down to the coffee shop two blocks away and get me a cup of coffee. Black, no sugar. You have twenty minutes.” She said again firmly.
Rika stared the tall lady up and down, then smiled.
“Sure thing ma’am.” She said, as she got up and made her way out of the building.
As she headed towards the coffee shop, she considered buying some laxatives to add to the coffee, but she changed her mind.
That was too much of an amateur move, amd could easily be linked back to her.
She sighed. Her phone dinged with a text from Hunter.
It was a selfie of he and Joy. She chuckled fondly.
Hunter was also interning at his mother’s perfume company, and Joy had taken a part time job as an office clerk there, so they were seeing a lot of each other.
They sure were having fun, Rika thought wistfully.
She finally arrived at the coffee shop and made her order. While waiting, her eyes caught the news segment running on the shop TV.
It was about that very infamous serial r@pist and mu.rderer that had been terr0rizing the main city for almost a year now. He always r@ped his female victims and then mur.dered them by r!gging their homes with expl0sives and det0nating it with them in it.
He was so good that he had managed to evade the Police for so long. But apparently, his most recent victim had survived, and was able to identify him, and along with a substantial amount of evidence, he had been arrested.
The problem now was, the criminal turned out to be the son of a very rich and influential family,and the media ate up the shocking scandal.
Rika rubbed her arm nervously.
His wealth made it easy for him to commit those crimes. There was no way his parents couldn’t have known. But yet here they were on television, claiming that their son wasn’t guilty.
Rika shuddered, and quickly took the coffee, hurrying back to the office.
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“Levi, are you sure of what you’re doing?”
Levi and Yuri sat in his office, Levi glanced up to meet his friend’s concerned gaze.
“Yes,” he answered curtly, and Yuri groaned in frustration at his stubbornness.
The recently apprehended serial rapist and killer had turned out to be from a very rich family, and they had insisted that their son was innocent, despite the staggering amount of evidence against him.
They had eventually hired Levi to be their defense attorney, since his family’s law firm was one of the best in the state.
And he had agreed to take the case.
Yuri had been on his neck ever since.
She had warned him of the backlash he would receive from the already agitated public, but he had retorted that he didn’t really care about what other people thought of him. He was used to dealing with hate from the public due to the nature of his job.
She had then argued that this man was a murderer, and that he deserved to be put in jail for his crimes.
Deserved to be put in jail.
Those words were all to familiar to Levi.
And this particular case was far too similar with that case…..the one from twelve years ago.
The case that had changed his life.
Something in his gut told him that there was more to the case than meets the eye, and that gut feeling just wouldn’t allow him to let it go.
For all he knew he could be wrong, and his intuition could be off.
But that was his decision to make, and he had learnt a long time ago that he alone would live with the consequences of his decisions.
He was going to take the case.
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Written by Authoress Covenant
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