What the...? It couldn’t have been more than twenty minutes since he’d left her apartment. Where exactly was she going?
Better question was, why hadn’t she mentioned her plans to leave?
Was this about a man? She’d been quite hesitant to answer his questions about dating. Perhaps she was going to meet someone right now. But why the secrecy?
Without hesitation, he jogged to his parked car and began to follow her. Every turn took them farther out of greater Dallas. Chic boutiques and swanky restaurants gradually gave way to boarded up buildings and graffiti brick walls. About four miles later, the cab came to a stop.
Adam pulled up behind them and parked his car as Ani exited out the passenger side of the taxi. When she noticed his presence, her surprise quickly collapsed into an expression of clear anger. She stomped her way over to where he stood next to his car.
“What are you doing here?” she demanded.
“I could ask you the same question. I thought you said you weren’t going anywhere the rest of the day.”
She narrowed her eyes at him. “No. I said nothing of the kind.”
Adam pinched the bridge of his nose. Great. Now she was arguing semantics with him. The truth was, she’d deliberately misled him. “You were less than forthcoming.”
“Never mind that. Did you just secretly follow me?”
Adam couldn’t help a bristle of irritation. She had a lot of nerve stepping out on him like this and then acting as if she was the affronted party. “If it had been a secret, you wouldn’t have any idea I was here, sweetheart.”
The deep red flush of her cheeks deepened. “Don’t call me that!”
Her demand took his ire down a peg. She was right. It was highly unprofessional of him, past history or not. “We should talk about that, by the way,” he told her.
“About what, exactly?”
“How you didn’t even notice there was a car trailing you all that time. You need to be more aware of your surroundings.”
She countered with an exaggerated eye roll. “You had no right to follow me.”
“I beg to differ. What are you doing here, anyway?” He glanced up at the sign hanging above the doorway of the gray stone building they stood in front of.
Plano Street Youth Center.
“I hardly see how it’s any of your business. Now, if you’ll excuse me.”
She turned on her heel but Adam stopped her departure with a gentle but firm grip on her elbow. She seared him with a look of outrage.
“Sorry, Ms. Terrance. Not so fast. You may think our association hasn’t started yet, but you’d be wrong. It started the moment I left your father’s office earlier today after signing a contract. Now please answer the question. What are you doing here?”
She tugged her arm free with so much force, Adam worried for a moment that she might actually topple backward. “See for yourself. If you must.” With that, she strode toward the entrance.
Adam released a deep breath and slowly counted to ten. Then he took a moment to pray for patience. He had to make sure to maintain an emotional distance here. The guilt would eat him alive if he failed in his duty yet again.
He followed her inside.
Copyright © 2020 by Nilay Nina Singh
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