CHAPTER - 14 Mike agrees to help her

"Even if I don't accept it, do I even have a choice now?" Dina then mouthed silently.

"What? What did you say?" Mike looked at her and asked as he couldn't hear what she had just murmured.

"I said, yes, it was all because of me your romance always gets into tragedy! Do not worry from tomorrow onwards, I will let you enjoy your nightlife. I won't be a hindrance to your love life. I promise. Are you happy now?" She asked him.

"There is no tomorrow for you! Every day you say the same thing and you let all your promises fly in the air." Mike shook his head in regret.

"Fine! I will try to change myself. But now go, Please, go… I beg you. I have to submit this today without fail to make them accept my designs for the show." Dina begged while holding his hands tightly.

He pulled the file from her hands and walked towards the door without saying a word.

"If you are afraid to stay alone, do you want to come with me?" He asked her.

"Nope, I am suddenly feeling better now! I didn't see or hear anything from the morning. I am starting to wonder why? Maybe I must be cured." She said with twinkling eyes.

"Good then, if you are cured. I will be back in a few hours." He said and left after waving her good-bye.

Dina waved back and giggled at his back.

‘Good thing, he forgot about his project. When he comes back and asks then I can tell him that he never gave her the details about the project. Moreover, I did not agree to do his project.’ She thought and started to flatter her hands in the air.

She hopped towards the entrance in a happy mood. The minute she opened the door, she saw Mike leaning against the wall next to the door.

“Why did you not go yet?” Dina asked him.

“...” Mike did not reply and looked at her blankly.

“What?” She asked and blinked her eyes innocently. 

Still, Mike did not respond to her. Dina understood that he wanted her to talk about his project work. So left with no other choice, she said,

“Fine! Email me the project details. I will immediately start to work on it.”

Mike closed his eyes for a second to control the pain he was feeling right then. Once he felt slightly better, he opened his eyes and said,

“I already mailed you. Did you think I would let you get away easily? In your dreams.”

Dina pouted her mouth in disdain and walked towards her workspace with her head down. Mike breathed in relief but he did not know how to hide the wings that were protruding from his back.

The two knives around the flower disappeared and two wings appeared from behind his back instead of those. Once Mike made sure that Dina could not see him, he entered his room again.

He walked to the corner of the room and removed a red Fuchsia painting from the wall. He pressed his hands on the system attached to the wall and an invisible door opened. He disappeared into the magical portal.

“Mike, are you still there?” Dina knocked on the door this time and entered his room.

When she did not notice him, she turned around to leave. She abruptly stopped and saw the painting that was kept on the floor. She walked towards it and picked it up.

“I don’t understand why Mike would treasure this flower painting so much. But see now, it had fallen and he did not even care about that.” She said.

She dusted the painting and hung it on the wall. The magical system had disappeared along with the invisible door. The white smooth wall did not show any hint of what had happened just a few minutes ago.

She went back to her workspace and started to work on Mike’s project. She got immersed in it until Mike came back with her cake.

“Here’s your ‘Double-Chocolate Bundt Cake with Ganache Glaze’ that you ordered, Madam,” He said and placed it on her desk.

“Shh… Don’t disturb,” Dina shushed him.

She started to concentrate on gathering the points that she collected from the internet and the reference books. Mike stood for two seconds silently and then started to poke her arm with his index finger.

“Come on, I am doing this project for you. If you keep on disturbing me then how do you think I can do my job?” She got irritated and slapped his hand away.

“I… I couldn’t submit the designs. I am sorry,” Mike said and moved further away from her.

“Ok. Just give me five minutes. I will be done… What? What did you say?” Dina shouted.

She could not believe what she had just heard. She was working on his project for so long and he just said, what? She glared at him and lifted her hand to delete his project.

But before her finger could land on the delete button, Mike dashed towards her and grabbed her hand.

“I lied! I lied! I submitted it. Look I even got an acceptance copy as proof.” He placed the paper in front of her.

Dina looked at the paper and then at him. Still, she was irritated and tried to delete the documents on her laptop. She struggled to get her hand out of his grasp.

“No, no no.. Don’t even think about it,” Mike screamed and pushed her chair behind.

Then he checked her laptop and noticed that the documents were not deleted. He breathed a sigh of relief and saved the documents. Until he sent the documents to his email, he held her face with his hand to stop her from reaching the laptop.

“Done!” He wiped his imaginary sweat and winked at her.

Dina pouted her mouth and looked away.

“Oh! Please, don’t be angry. Look I got your favorite cake plus vanilla ice cream. I will also take you to your favorite bar and make sure that you get drunk enough tonight.” Mike announced.

Dina took the cake from his hand and started to dig in after pouring the vanilla ice cream on top of it.

“I told you I am going to stop drinking from today. So, you do not have to take me anywhere to get drunk,” Dina said.

“Seriously? Are you sure?” He asked and shook her shoulders.

“Yes, and stop shaking me. My cake is all over you now,” She stated.

“That’s fine. I have a spare shirt to wear. Goodness, finally you proved that you are still a good witch,” He declared.

“What do you mean by that? Am I a bad witch until now?” Dina asked him.

When he realized the blunder he did, he got shocked. How could he call her a witch? Has he lost his mind? Thankfully she took it as a joke and did not go deep into knowing why he called her a good witch!

“What? Why did you go silent all of a sudden?” She kicked his legs and asked.

“Nothing, I will go get changed. Then we will go home.” He escaped from her room.

Dina stood up and packed her bag. She placed the cake into the bag. Once she checked everything was in order in her work studio, she walked out of her room.

She opened the next door and asked,

“Can we go? My mom was angry in the morning as she…”

She stopped speaking as she saw the tattoo had disappeared from Mike’s back.

“Mike, what happened to your tattoo?” She exclaimed. 

He touched his back and said, “It’s a temporary tattoo. I just wanted to check how it would look on me if I get a permanent one.”

“So, Didn’t you like it?” She asked.

Mike buttoned his shirt and said, “Nope, I like but I think it is still early to get a tattoo. I may get it sometime later.”

“Ok,” She said and walked towards his desk.

As usual, his desk was clean and it didn’t require any cleaning. She shook her head and could not believe why a bachelor would be such a clean freak.

“Let’s go. I will drop you home and then I have an important appointment to attend.” He announced.

Dina turned around with twinkling eyes and asked, “Important appointment without me? Is it a date with the bartender whom we met yesterday?”

Mike blushed and replied in a low tone, “Yes.”

“Ohhh… Please don’t tell me you are going on a date wearing this funny-looking shirt,” She pointed at his boring light blue shirt and scrunched her face.

 “What’s wrong with this one? It’s plain, simple, and tempting. It even shows my abs and muscle in proper shape.” He said. 

“We run a fashion boutique and you have no sense of fashion. I can’t believe you even graduated from your college.” She complained and walked downstairs. 

“Yes, I did! Because I have you with me, so I don’t have to worry about such silly things.” He stated.