Chapter 29 - Insolent Bastard (1/2)

Rockaway Tower

Olivia was about to go up to her penthouse suite to retire for the night but jumped back in upon opening her decoy apartment's door. Surprise was written all over her face when she thought she saw a Stonehenge standing guard in the hallway, facing her decoy apartment.

Was that a Stonehenge? If yes, then what was it doing outside her door? She asked herself when doubt started to cloud her mind. She shook her head clear when she thought she's probably hallucinating, tired from all the events that took place that day so she opened the door once again. However, her initial visual perception was validated, there was indeed a man with a Sui pin on his suit's lapel standing outside her office apartment and guessed that Maxen must have left the poor guy to watch over her.

Although she found Maxen's gesture of goodwill to offer his security detail without her consent commendable, now she was stuck in a dilemma on how she's supposed to go up to her penthouse suite when there's MIB1 trailing behind her like a true security detail which agitated Olivia more. Talk about keeping secrets biting you back.

She walked back and forth between her apartment door and the elevator only to heave an irritated sigh when MIB1 was still hot on her tail.

”What the heck is going on? Why are you following me? Can you just stay in one place?” she asked as she turned around to face the stoney face of MIB1. She guessed that even if the guy would remove his eyeglass, which she suspected as a high-end hands-free security device, the guy's face would stay the same: stoney.

”Orders of His Highness Maxen, Miss Olivia.”

Knowing that talking with MIB1 to leave her alone was futile Olivia took out her phone and dialed Maxen's number on speed dial four.

”What is this stoneface doing outside my apartment?” she instantly asked as soon as the call got through.

”Oh that… I noticed you don't have guards around so I made him stay... only for tonight,” Maxen replied, his voice soft as if coaxing a child on a temper tantrum. What he really wanted to do was assign MIB1 as her permanent detail but he had to rephrase his sentence last minute when he sensed Olivia's apprehension.

His mind's gears churned endlessly as it processed how to deal with Olivia but out of all the days it started to make loud clanging noises as if it was badly rusted and needed an oil change sending him on the brink of an overdrive. He smoothed the creases on his forehead with his fingers at the awareness that his years of experience with women was rather useless in fully understanding Olivia.

Was she offended that he left a guy? Or does he need to put in more guys? Or maybe he should have put in a girl detail instead? Right. That should be the case.

Finally, after what felt like forever, the scratching silence ended with Olivia's voice echoing in the speaker, her tone back to her soft and sultry voice that Maxen could not get enough of. ” Please don't waste taxpayers' money on me. I have my own security detail. Thanks for your offer but I have to decline.”

”You do? I didn't see anyone.”

She made sure to clear her throat to get MIB1s attention and showed him her raised single brow to show her indignation before she put the phone on speaker mode.

”Shadow, you can come out,” Olivia said to no one in particular. MIB1 scanned the well-lit hallway and saw a shadow peeled away from the wall. She moved the phone closer to her mouth and haughtily said, ”See? Ask your guy and check for yourself.”

”Does she have a detail?”