Chapter 48

An Eventful Day

“He’s calling you again.”

Alice looked down at her phone that was on the counter before she picked it up and shoved it in her back pocket.

“Should’ve left it in my purse,” she said, handing out another takeout order she had just packed. She was really good at what she did. She loved her job so much, and everything was going so well at the coffee shop, except for the part where her boss had feelings for her.

“He’s a real creep, you know? I kind of feel like he’s up to something,” Brooke uttered spontaneously. She was sitting on a bar stool. Her arms were crossed over her chest. Alice sighed as she shook her head. There wasn’t any new customer yet, so she joined Brooke by the bar stool and grabbed a seat.

“I don’t know. I just feel like he’s just obsessed with me that he can’t leave my sight. This morning, I found him sleeping by our door. He literally spent the night there. Ben told me he’d ask him to leave, but Aaron stubbornly refuse