My Dreamwalker

Chapter one

Keira shuts off the engine of her car, picks her handbag and files before stepping out of her old car. It took Keira to bang the door twice to get it shut properly but not before something break and fell under it.

She wanted to look under the car to make sure it wasn't anything important, specially for the car to start again but she didn't had time to do that. Already she was late and well passed her deadline to present her report on her last assignment.

Adrian's shining Bentley was parked with other expensive cars, in first row thats the reason she had to park or more accurately hide her old dying car so far from the office building.

Not too long ago the bastard had convinced her to sell off her car because he had a great car and they don't need two cars to get to and  from work. However like the lazy person she was, she never got around putting it up for sale.

For almost the whole year miss Marlyn sat rusting  in her garage that she didn't used either, living with Adrian at his luxurious flat an all.

"what a fool I was" she muttered as she hurried by the blue Bentley suppressing an urge to scratch it's door with her keys.

It would serve him right, too bad she can't scratch his smug smile. She thought climbing the stairs and trying to avoid looking at the blond as***ol standing on the landing.

"Hey!" Adrian called out as she was about to pass by him.

Just what she needed now. Idiot, can't he see I am trying to ignore him? "In a hurry. Already late." she said but kept walking.

"oh..  OK. See you later?" he called after her.

"sure." she threw over her shoulders before pushing the heavy door and entering the building, not waiting to see he heard her or not.

It's already hard to work in the same place with her ex but he was not making it any easy, behaving like nothing has happened. She thought punching for 11th floor on the elevator panel as its glass doors closed.

She checked her watch again and sagged with relief as it showed she made it just in time. Matt,  short for Matthew Dean, her boss always comes half an hour late so he probably won't notice that she was 15 minutes late. Right?

God she has to do something about it, can not be late everyday, she thought. MS. Merilyn just won't do. She doubted it would even start again. Can't afford a new car, can't ask dad to loan some money either.

That left only two other options. One,  ten minutes walk to the station, thirty minutes ride and another twenty minutes walk from the station to office. Then repeat backwards at the end of the day. She groaned even thinking about it.

Option two. Get Ms. Merilyn fixed. God only knows how much that's going to cost or if it was even possible.

She made a mental note to check with Ben, the mechanic who works at the auto shop two blocks away from her home, if he could save Ms. Merilyn with as less money as he could.

If only she hadn't spent so much on that two days luxury weekend in Mexico in honor of Mr.  Adrian As***ol Crawford's birthday. God what a fool she had been.

She met Adrian on her first day at work two years back. He was so charming that all the girls fawned over him. With his blond hair, light blue eyes and swimmer's body. Turned out she wasn't immune to his charm either.

Things became even more interesting when he started doing small things for her specially. Like bringing coffee for her, helping her with difficult assignments, paying extra attention on her at office parties and get-togethers. Soon they started dating and after only six months she practically moved in with him.

Then he went away for a month to take care of new items acquired for the museum that turned to two months. Then he started going away every second weekend telling her that he started freelancing for an archaeologist  and she stupidly believed him.

Last month on his birthday she planned a surprise weekend getaway to Mexico. Booked a luxury hotel with spa and massages, the whole nine. Foolishly thinking he is been working so hard lately.

However at first he simply refused to go saying he has a meeting with the archaeologist and all, but after she literally pleaded with him, he agreed then behaved like a jerk the whole trip.

After coming back she went to see her dad the next weekend as Adrian was supposed to meet the archaeologist again.

Turned out her dad invited her to meet his new girlfriend. No matter how much she wanted her dad to be happy or how hard she tried, she simply wasn't getting used to the idea of him being with another woman any time soon. So she excused herself faking a headache, then next day lied about an emergency at work to leave a day early and came back.

Surprise surprise. Her dad was not the only one with a new girlfriend. Adrian just didn't invited Keira like her father to meet her. He was banging Rachel 'the front desk lady' on the living room couch no less.

Keira couldn't even blink for a moment. Adrian didn't even notice her standing behind him. Rachel did and pushed him away.

"Keira? You were supposed to come tomorrow." Adrian said fumbling with his pants while Rachel tried to cover her nakedness with Adrian's shirt. Her dress was by Adrian's feet, her bra half hanging from the side table. Keira didn't wait to see where her panties were.

"S.. Sorry." she said and practically ran away before tears blurred her vision.

She cried the whole day then on and off for whole night. In the morning her bathroom mirror told her she was in no condition to go to work with swollen eyes and red nose. The thought of seeing Adrian again so soon made her cry some more. She called in sick and went back to bed.

Thankfully her dad showed up in the evening feeling sorry that he didn't tell her about Penny beforehand, but one look at her and he went right into the papa bear mode and started packing a bag for her telling her "I won't listen to anything you have to say, you are coming back home with me. End of discussion."

She just hugged him tight and cried. Just like when she was six and scraped her knee, when she was eleven and Tommy the neighbor's kid called her stupid and pulled her ponytail, when she wad fifteen and Ethan Goodman didn't ask to prom, when she was seventeen and lost a badminton match, when she was twenty and lost her mother to cancer. Her dad has always been her anchor. Her shoulder to cry on.

She stayed at home with him for whole week. He didn't ask her anything and she didn't tell him anything. However after sleeping for straight ten hours she felt better.

Penny turned out to be an amazing person. She made her feel comfortable and never complained when she snapped at her in the beginning but soon they bonded. All three of them watched movies together, played indoor games or just took long walks by the beach.

The week passed so quickly that she was really sad that it was over so soon. The one good thing that came out of all the drama was that it made her realize how much her dad and Penny cared for each other. They made each other happy.

One thing was clear, Richard Benjamin Wolfrost really did know how to choose them. First her mom and now Penny. She thought looking at the happy couple laughing and arguing in the kitchen.

If only his daughter had a bit of his talent, then she wouldn't have been such a fool to fall for an ass**ol like Adrian.

Twenty four hours later here she was to face the music or ignore it if she could.

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A/N

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