Chapter 32. Stop

The elevator arrived and she waited for it to open only to see Raphael inside it. She furrowed her eyebrows.

"Mr. Raphael? Good morning, are you perhaps going somewhere?" She asked. Raphael cleared his throat and tried looking for a reasonable excuse to give because he only unreasonably landed in front of her. Why did he not think it through before rushing out?

"No, I went to get something."

"You went to get something? From the office or…" Evelyn tried using her hands in describing since her words could not make out any meaning at all. Raphael, as well, nodded innocently in every direction she was pointing at, making it more than an awkward situation.

"Get in." He said after a while and she obeyed.

The elevator's door got closed and the two of them stayed miles apart from each other. Well, Raphael wouldn't have minded staying this close to her but she was just trying to distance herself for social etiquette's sake.

Raphael looked at her once in a