Daddy Material

I'm Not Your Pawn

The girls didn't stay for longer than the weekend since everyone still had lives and jobs to get back to. But just that weekend picked up Zafirah's spirits and she started to feel a little better. The apartment still felt huge and cold, but she was coping with it a lot easier. She had even been able to sleep.

So when she got to work, she was full of fresh new energy that she had been missing since Seungwoo left on his business trip. And everyone had noticed the skip in her step and authentic smile in her eyes.

"Good morning Subinnie," she greeted happily as she walked into her office, her assistant following behind her. "What's on the schedule today?"

He read off her schedule from the planner in his hands. It was a packed Monday for her but she was good. Zafirah liked working because she liked what she did and she liked to use her knowledge and skills to make people happy. She was a proud workaholic.

And she immersed herself in her work until lunchtime when Baby Z started demanding actual food be fed to her. Before she could even get up though, the door to her office opened and Monique walked in with a bag.

"Did someone order lunch?" she said.

Zafirah got up to run around the desk and hug her cousin. Monique reciprocated before she pulled back to look at the office. She had never come to see her cousin's office and she had to give props. It was nice.

"You got a view and everything in here," Monique said. "Plus your assistant is super cute." She set the food down on the desk. "I brought your favorite salad from Green Place."

"The avocado cobb?"

"Yes ma'am."

There was a knock on the door and the two cousins turned to the door. Byungchan stood in the doorway with papers in hand. "Sorry to interrupt," he said.

"You're fine, just about to sit down for some lunch. This is my cousin Monique. What can I help you with, Byungchan?" Zafirah asked, walking over to the lawyer.

He handed her the papers in his hand. "Just needed your approval on this contract with Weishin Incorporated before we send it over to them." She took the papers and looked over them, nodding her head from time to time and whispering to herself.

"It all looks good to me," she said handing it back to him. "Thanks Byungchan."

"No problem. Still need a ride after work?" he asked her. She nodded, looking up at him with wide eyes and a pushed out lower lip. He rolled his eyes but chuckled at her puppy dog face. "Okay, stop looking at me like that. I'll see you later then. Nice to meet you Monique."

Monique let out a high-pitched hum in response as he left that made Zafirah look back at her. She looked just about embarrassed as Zafirah felt for her.

"What the hell was that?" Zafirah asked after closing the door behind her. She didn't need the poor girl to experience any more embarrassment that day.

"First you got a hot doctor then your assistant is cute now you got this fine coworker," Monique said. "On top of the fact you live with your sexy ass best friend. I'm done with you."

Zafirah rolled her eyes and took a seat in the chair next to Monique, pulling out her salad. "I can give you three of their numbers if you want. You already know not to expect shit from me when it comes to Seungwoo."

"Have you spoken to him yet?" Monique asked, finally sitting down and pulling out her own Chinese chicken salad.

Zafirah shook her head as she poured the dressing into her salad and shaking it up. Her talk with Monique on the balcony had opened her eyes to quite a few things. But at the end of the day, she was still very stubborn and had a problem with admitting when she was wrong. Especially if she felt that she had been wronged in return.