Ellery’s POV

“ELLERY!” Alexa greeted me.

She is my officemate and a friend. We are both coordinators, but we are in separate teams.

"Oh, hi, Alexa." I feel depressed as I greeted her back.

“Long time no talk. ‘It’s good that I ran to you here in the elevator. Let's have lunch together so we can get a little talk. You have not been working for a few days since your guy visited you! ” She said without a pause.

What would I expect? She is just talkative. That's why I want to be with her. I became lively when I am with her. Too bad we were separated from the team. Our lady boss just made Alexa her own team. Previously, she was in my group, and we were together on projects.

“Yeah. The news he brought me last time was feverish.” I answered softly.

We exited the elevator together when we reached the ground floor.

"That sounds like a long story." She teased and hold me on the arm. "Let's go to the closest resto. I think our one-hour lunch break would not be enough for you to tell the whole story."

And Alexa just brings me to somewhere. She also ordered food for me since I am not in the mood to pick some to eat.

“You are such a fool! You get yourself soaked in the rain and got sick just because you had been heartbroken? Tsk… tsk! ” Alexa said, looking disappointed after I told her why I was absent for a few days and the reason itself.

“Do you think that when you got a fever, Luke's wedding plan will be thwarted?”

“Sssh!” I rebuked her. “Yes! I'm such a dope. I honestly do not want to have a fever. I just really lost myself and was shocked, so I just walked in the rain. I really feel like my brain was flying in space that night.”

“Why didn't you know that those two were dating? What's that? Are they in a secret relationship?”

“As if I know?”

I sighed. I really hate that sister of mine. I thought I already ditch her away from our paths, and now, this? She probably works slyly and shrewdly.

“Luke and I haven't talked for a long time. We have both been busy.” I added it with a deep sigh.

“Oh my gosh, works really ruins love life!" She said.

“Eer, there is no love life to be destroyed. We are just friends. I am just a friend! Damn this life! For him, I'm just a friend. He can't see me as a woman.” I harshly sipped into my blue lemonade.

Alexa grinned and gave me a challenging look. “And do you intend to stay just his friend? Forever?”

My eyebrows rose. And knotted my forehead.

“What can I do? He can't love me? Should I repeat it over and over again? It hurts, you know?”

“Dumb witch! You did not make way for him to see you as a woman. You can, but you don't want to.”

"Huh?" I don't get her. "What do you mean?"

“You should change your style sometimes. Your being kind is enough. Be aggressive. Maybe that’s what Luke wants. Lindsay's moves. She just found out that the second son of the Suarez will be the heir of SGC, and she suddenly flirts with Luke. Didn't she use to reject Luke before? You even said that she was just using him to pissed you off.”

Why did it not come to my mind? What if Lindsay just wants his money? I knew that witch very well.

“It's a different case when someone is beautiful,” I said bluntly. “They were being chased.”

I dismiss Alexa's suspicion. Lindsay is already rich in her promising career, and she had lots of investments with big companies all over the country. So, how can money be the reason?

Or so I thought? What if Lindsay was greedy enough to use Luke?

Oh my! I can't let that happen.

“And do you think you are not beautiful? You would be really a fool if you did not know that thing. Lindsay’s beauty was handmade. Retouche. That is why she looks like a Goddess. But you, you are a natural. A goddess of your own.”

“Maybe Luke wants bottled beauty,” I commented.

And the two of us make a hi-five. We even laughed at our own antics. Eventually, Alexa went serious.

“But really, Ellery. Why not try to be aggressive sometimes?” she said, waving the straw of her drinks in the air.

I raised an eyebrow at her. “Aggressive? You mean, when I see him, I’ll grab and kiss him right away? I will probably, scare Luke with that action.” And I followed that with a crazy laugh.

“That would be fine, too,” Alexa added.

“Silly girl.” I sipped lemonade again.

“But I have a better idea.” She added as if I had not been heard.

My forehead furrowed again. I want to shook my head. I know the next thing I will get to hear from her is not approved in my outlook in life. Alexa was an unpredictable kind of person. The ideas she let out of her mouth are something I can’t think of.

“What if you bed him?”

I was suddenly absorbed in what I was drinking. With the force of my suction, I felt like the lemonade came out of my nose.

“What the hell?!” I coughed as I talked. Alexa handed me a tissue.

I was really horrified. I should have prepared for this. Sure the idea she will lay out for me is far from what I can do.

“Stop being prude, Ellery. You will not totally take Luke and bed him. ”

“Is that really the term, girl? It sounds like I am a nympho!” I complained.

“Girl, could you stop commenting abruptly and listen to me first?” Alexa scolded me. “You will just sleep in one bed. Give him sleeping pills. Take off your clothes and undress him, and then sleep next to him. And he will wake up just like: ‘Oh-la-la! Do you get it?” she smiled foolishly.

“Shall I set him up to marry me?!”