SOUL TIES (The Sánchez Brothers Series, Book 1)

CHAPTER 13 : DEBBIE

"You gotta tell me, Dee."

Another Monday and I got to work by 6:40am. The only benefit I got from my incident with Nelly the previous week was that I had finally devised a means to prepare breakfast for Mikayla and still arrive at work early. After a couple sessions during the day, I was officially hungry and went to the cafeteria to eat. I met Madison there and she started pestering me. I ignored her while eating the lasagne I ordered. Even when she started pulling my fingers, I didn't give her as much as a glance. I didn't look at her till I got to my office and sat down.

"Why aren't you responding to me?" I raised my right brow coolly. She couldn't not know the reason why, it was pretty obvious. "I just want to know why Mr Sánchez asked you to wait behind on Friday. That's all I ask, and I'll be out of your hair."

"And you are?"

Her face morphed into a look of confusion. "Excuse me? I don't understand what that means."

Of course she wouldn't. "I want to know what position you hold in my life to demand such information from me."

"I didn't demand for it." My eyes narrowed of their own accord. "I requested for it." My eyes rolled in exasperation. "Sorry,plead. I'm pleading for that information. Please tell me."

"Why do you want to know?"

She smiled almost bashfully and my nose wrinkled in slight revulsion. What was wrong with the lady? "I just want to know."

"I wasn't the only person he asked to wait behind. Why can't you look for someone else to disturb?" She chuckled at my choice of word. "Don't tell me I'm the only one who can tolerate your insanity cos that would really hurt my feelings."

Her laughter rang out in my office. "Of course, I'm friends with everybody. Unlike someone else." I let out a bored yawn in response to her jab. I didn't need her to remind me that I was a loner in the building. I didn't like them so why should I want to be friends with them? Hell, I wasn't even sure I liked Madison, I just managed to condone her. "I just want to know what he told you in particular."

"Why me?" She gave me that shy smile again and tripled my confusion. "Why am I your case study?"

She shrugged. "I don't even know why, I just wanna know."

My eyes never left hers as I said my next words. "He said I was eligible for a raise."

"A raise?!!"

I had intended to refute my first statement but the look in her face was so priceless, I had to spin my golden webs of lies a little longer. "Of course. He said I might be getting a raise soon."

Shock flitted across her eyes, then relief, until incredulity settled in her dark orbs. "For real?"

I probably had an irritated expression on my face because she burst in an embarrassed laugh. "You're not slow, so why are you acting like you are?" I shook my head at the increasing volume of her laughter. "He said I was a wonderful worker and it was very unfair that I'd be receiving the same amount as y'all motherfuckers. He said it was an insult to both my personality and my performance and i deserved way more." Personally, I thought everything I said was completely true. I should be earning way more than the fuckers in the company.

"Those were his words?"

I stuck my nose in the air in a haughty manner. "You can go to his office and confirm it if you need to."

She narrowed her eyes at me in suspicion. "I don't believe you."

My shoulders jerked up slightly in a shrug. "Well, I don't care."