Impress Me Not: The Architect

Chapter 7

"I still don't like it," Sarah shook her head. "That's the riskiest idea you've come up with."

"But Sarah," Will looked at her excitedly. "It's the perfect thing to figure out if your case is as bad as you think."

"How?" Justin asked. They were just at the chapel as Casimir was doing his job and helping out a couple plan their wedding. He was one of the best wedding planners in Miami. Him and his ex used to travel together to meet people across the world to help plan weddings and make them beautiful. But that was just about it as far as their knowledge of him went.

"Will," Benny gave him an unsure look. "You do know that we'll be right in the place we started if we fail this case, right?"

"I'm well aware," he winked at him again. While everyone was uncertain, he oozed confidence. "Look at it like this: Justin has a feeling that Casimir isn't as bad as everyone thinks, and I have a feeling that he might be the perfect for Valentino. It's a two-in-one combo, and you don't get that in this line of work often."

"Your feelings have been wrong before," Sarah argued. "Look, it's never been allowed to have an anticupid case mix with a cupid case. This is why the Last Chance cases were created."

"Then let's treat him like that!" Will said, those caramel eyes shining with child-like excitement. "I mean, it's obvious that he was left unwatched for a while. Why not give him one more chance?"

"And you think Valentino is perfect for this?" Justin raised an eyebrow. He knew just how much trouble they could all get into for a case like this, but he couldn't help but think that it was a good idea. There was just something in his gut that was trying to sell him on this idea just as much as Will was. That was why he hadn't done anything to punish him yet.

"Valentino is well known for being a tough lover," Will told him. "That's why everyone who ever had his case failed to find the right one for him. With Casimir being a stalker, it could be the true test to seeing if he's willing to change his ways."

"And what if Valentino becomes his next target for stalking?" Sarah argued. She didn't like this one bit. "You guys forget the whole reason why our cases aren't supposed to intermix. We could wind up hurting someone else along with his ex who is already terrified."

"I don't think he would get that far," Benny shook his head. "Valentino has a track record of one-night stands and ditching someone as soon as he has any excuse to. He doesn't like clingy people and he hates when someone doesn't give him his space. He's the pickiest case we've gotten so far."

"I don't even see how the two of them would work out in general if that were the case," Justin said. "It doesn't seem like they match at all."

When Justin was reading into his case, there really wasn't much. But he was able to find out that Casimir had always been the person to cling to someone once he started dating them. All of his other relationships didn't seem to mind. They were good ones that lasted quite a while and never ended with harsh feelings. It made him all the more uneasy about Casimir. Because if all of his other relationships were perfectly fine, then what had happened with his last one that tipped him over the edge? He had been dying to know that since the beginning of all of this.

It was hard to do a job like theirs. They had to get in the mind of the person they were punishing, to truly understand them and know what would really hurt them. But Casimir already got a lot of punishment, and not through the anticupids. Justin remembered the look on his target's face when he was talking to his friend. He looked so conflicted.

He heard the conversation, too. It was sad that he was calling to know about her, and it only made Sarah all the more suspicious as to him truly trying to get over her. But he also seemed like he really was listening to what his friend had to say. It was a shame that his friend couldn't see the impression that he made with Casimir. If he knew just how willing he was to listen to him, Justin wondered if he'd use that to help him get out of his bad ways.