Bedding My Vampire Mate

She started walking back to the cafe in big strides. There was a point she even ran just to be able to get there sooner.

Reaching the front of the glass building, the gasping Joanna halted. She tried to regulate her breathing.

Standing there, her palpitating heart won\'t stop racing even though her breathing has returned to normal.

"Gosh, I feel so nervous!" Joanna remarked as she rubbed her palms together.

After standing there for over two minutes Joanna approached the glass door. She tried as much as she could not to show her excitement on her black face.

Entering the cafe she scanned the entire cafe with her eyes. They were only a handful of customers there so she didn\'t need to look too long to realise that Amos was not there.

Joanna\'s expression fell instantly. As she approached the counter she didn\'t notice that a man\'s eyes had been fixated on her ever since she stepped foot into the cafe.

"Didn\'t you say he was here so why can\'t I see him?" Joanna questioned out of annoyance when she reached where Leah stood trying to prepare a cup of coffee.

Joanna was too upset to appreciate the sweet fragrance of the high-quality coffee beans.

"Were you playing a prank on me…,"

"And why would I do that?" Leah cut in. She spared Joanna a few seconds of her time before she returned her attention to what she was doing.

"If it wasn\'t a prank so where is he?" Joanna demanded. She turned and looked at the customers again in case she had made a mistake earlier.

"How dare you lie to me with a serious face?" Joanna turned and faced Leah. She was so ready to transfer the aggression to the innocent lady.

"If you needed me back in the cafe you should have just said so instead of lying about him being here…,"

"But I wasn\'t lying," Leah defended herself. "He is sitting right over there so why are you saying you can\'t find him?... Do you have a problem with your eyes?" Leah questioned as she pointed at the far left corner of the spacious hall.

With sparkling eyes and a smile on her face, Joanna turned and looked at where Leah\'s finger pointed.

For the second time in less than ten minutes, Joanna\'s expression fell when she couldn\'t behold the face of the one she was longing to see.

"All I could think about was you the moment I set eyes on the Chancellor of Twilight University," Leah said with a smile on her face.

If only she knew what was going on in Joanna\'s mind then she wouldn\'t have been so excited while talking.

"If you serve him well today you will not only earn brownie points but you will also get on his good side so go for it, girl. You are the reason I delayed serving their orders," Leah said with a broad smile on her face.

"Was he the reason you called me here?" Joanna asked, her eyebrows furrowed as she turned back to look at the smiling Leah.

Leah\'s smile faded seeing the frown on Joanna\'s face when she was expecting to see her smiling.

"Are you not happy that I saved the opportunity for you to get on his good side…,"

"And why should I be happy?" Joanna snapped. For a moment there she lost her sense of reasoning. "He is not someone close to me.... I don\'t smile even when my father returns from a long journey so why should I smile because of him?".

She spoke her mind without giving a fuck that others were overhearing their conversation.

"Also, do I look like someone who will bootlick just to curry favour from someone…,"

"Joanna, it hasn\'t gotten to this extent so why are you angry?" Leah said. "Besides I was doing this for your good…,"

"If you don\'t want to see me lose it completely then try not to make the same mistake," Joanna interrupted, only to walk away.

Leah was perplexed to see how she was treated because of the good deed she wanted to do.

"I know I should be very understanding of her because she is sick but I just can\'t stop myself from being angry," Leah clenched her fists, her gaze following the lady who was moving towards the right-hand side of the hall.

"What\'s taking you so long?" The man whose order Leah was holding onto shouted with his right hand in the air.

"I am coming," Leah replied. She hurried to make a heart shape on the two cups of coffee per the customer\'s orders.

As she was trying to finalize everything Joanna who was almost at the table to whom her presence was required paused walking when a hand held her from behind.

Joanna tilted her head sideways, ready to give whoever held her hand without permission a piece of her mind.

"Sir!" Joanna remarked with widened eyes.

"It\'s really you," Mr Aidan, the fat man in glasses replied with a broad smile on his face.

"When I first set my eyes on you, I found your face familiar so I kept on trying to recall where I saw your face," Mr Aidan said, still maintaining his smile.

The way Joanna glared at the man\'s hand whose firm around her right hand hasn\'t loosened showed exactly what Joanna was thinking.

"And when I finally recalled that you are the lady I helped at the campus today, I was scared to approach you thinking, what if I made a mistake? Thank goodness it\'s you…," Joanna pulled her hand away from his hold when she couldn\'t pretend any longer.

"I forgot to thank you for your help back then so how about I take care of your bills here as a show of appreciation?" Joanna said acting like she did nothing wrong.

"I didn\'t approach you because I wanted you to repay me for what I did. I only came to you because I wanted to compliment you," Mr Aidan said. He retracted his hand and acted as if nothing happened also.

"Compliment me for what?" Joanna asked in confusion.