Alter Ego: His Sultry Lover

Chapter 165: Got The Hint

“We’ve been ordering in too much,” Katherine complained. 

“Well, I know that you can compromise Cage’s body, but I can’t. I can’t have that on my conscience so when I was cooking breakfast for Jared, I made extra for the two of you.” Katherine scurried away and peered into the packet that was placed on the table. 

“Nothing for Angelina?” she asked after looking at the quantity. 

“Nah, I called her. She already ate breakfast… with Stephen.” Lily gave Katherine a meaningful look. 

“Did they…” she trailed off. 

“Don’t know,” Lily said conspiratorially. “But that would be fast.” Katherine shrugged. 

“Speaking of weird incidents, guess who delivered our dinner last night.” Lily gave Katherine a weird look. 

“Who? Bill Gates? I don’t know why this would be remotely important, to begin with.” 

“Don’t be a fun-sucker,” Katherine groaned. Cage snickered from the sideline. 

“Okay, don’t make me wait. Who was it?”

“Nathanial Brown.” Cage frowned and Katherine giggled. She pointed Lily towards Cage and the other seemed to finally understand the purpose of the conversation. 

“What a child…” Lily commented with a sigh. Katherine was acting like a teenager whose first boyfriend had become jealous over something. Seems like she had regressed in mental age since she fell in love. But was it really love if you don’t do crazy things? “Is he working two jobs, now?” she asked. Last time she had met him, he didn’t mention anything… not that they were super close or anything. He actually spoke a lot to them.

“Uh, not really. The owner of the bar now has a ghost kitchen and he thought it would be a great idea to deliver because I ordered.” Lily looked slightly traumatized. 

“Hate to break it to you but that sounds horrifying.” She paused. “I really want to laugh. Damn, what did you do?” 

“Ask Cage,” Katherine said smugly. 

“Well?” Lily asked, looking at Cage. 

“I loudly called her out to let him know there was a man in the house and put on a disguise.” He scratched his hair in embarrassment. “I may have also displayed affection in front of him.”

Lily finally burst into laughter. “I bet he wanted to kill himself. Most of the time, he has to talk to Katherine with other people around. He must have thought he finally had some alone time with her only to have your handsome hunk marking his territory.”

Katherine sighed. “Well, he didn’t see Cage’s face.”

“It doesn’t matter. He probably got the hint.” If he didn’t, Katherine would have to bring out her self-defense skills and break some sense into the guy’s head. 

“He better have,” Cage grumbled. “How long has he been pursuing you?” He didn’t think he had asked that before. It seemed like the question he should have asked a little earlier. Not that it really mattered in the larger picture. 

“I don’t have the slightest clue,” Katherine admitted truthfully. 

Lily chuckled from the sidelines. “Since the moment he laid his eyes on her. As you know, Katherine here has a charm about her. She has the superpower of attracting the creepiest men.” Katherine elbowed Lily. “Not you, of course. You are not a creep.”

“Well, I am a creep. But I hope not the bad kind.” Katherine gave him a warm smile. ‘I love your creepiness. It gets me going,’ she thoughts. She didn’t need to show how mushy she was in front of Lily. God knows, she would never live it down. 

“He was always willing to help her home if we met someone we liked and she was drunk. If he had a choice, he would mistakenly bump into her on the street. But that never happened.” Katherine glared at her. 

“He followed you or something?” Cage asked, alarmed.

“It was just the one time he came to the movie theatre,” she assured him quickly.

“Like any of us would believe that!” Lily said in a low voice but both of them heard.

“Don’t worry. He can be a bit creepy at times but nothing like yesterday. He stepped up his creep game by asking me out and appearing on my doorstep. I promise this is not normal.” That guy needed some sense put into him. Seriously, who just appears at someone’s doorstep uninvited?

“Well, I don’t think lightly of stalkers. You know I have had a bad past with them,” his face was twisted into a grimace. “If he is a problem, I will have no problem doing something and making the situation better. I could send my mother after him,” he joked instantly, trying to lighten the mood. Even though he seemed to be joking, the look in his eyes showed that he was taking the situation seriously. 

“Don’t worry about him. He got the message today and if he didn’t, I’ll just tell him to go fuck himself next time. I won’t run away.” 

“You’d think anyone with a brain cell would understand that if a girl runs away from you, it’s not a good sign,” Lily commented from across the room, sounding a little bored. “He’s just the type of guy who can’t take no for an answer,” she said.

“It’s those movies, I tell you. They try to pander to women and it just makes a vicious cycle. Women think being treated poorly is romantic and men think that makes them manly.” Katherine’s voice was filled with disgust. 

“Under the Stars was somewhat like that,” he said softly. 

“No offense,” she said with an apologetic smile. 

“None taken.” 

“But a guy who can’t take no for an answer is dangerous. Maybe I should get you a bodyguard.” Katherine wanted to run away. 

“He might be persistent but he is harmless.” She gave him a gentle kiss on the lips to reassure him. Nathaniel was not a problem at all. She pulled away to see that his brows were still furrowed with worry. “Just imagine a hunk sitting in my room all day long and watching me work.”