Top Floor (Rendezvous #1)

Chapter 28

“What the hell is wrong with this man?” Claire hissed to herself.

It had been nearly four days since Claire last spoke with Heath. She called him every night after the first time she tried, but he didn’t answer. She even tried during the day as well, mostly when it was the afternoon, but Heath still didn’t pick up the phone.

Of course, Claire planned on trying again today, but she wasn’t even sure if he would answer the phone or not.

But because he hadn’t been picking up her calls, Claire’s only been getting more and more irritated. If and when she eventually got through to him, and found out that he had purposely ignored her calls, then she was going to let him have it.

And if she found out that he still talked to Julia more than her, she wasn’t going to let him off.

Claire sighed to herself and decided to get out of her office. She had been sitting in there all morning looking through papers. Though admittedly, the amount of papers was much less than she expected. Then again, that was mostly because of Julia.

The whole time, Claire thought perhaps Julia had just been fooling around in Bishop Lodgings. But it turned out that she actually had been doing her job as she was hired to. The work load was lessened because of that, but that didn’t mean her opinion on Julia had changed. The woman was still trouble that needed to be dealt with.

After Claire left her office, she made her usual rounds in the hotel. Today, there were reports about broken machines in the arcade room again, so she went there to check up on what needed to be checked.

However, the moment she entered the room, she was instantly reminded of what happened the last time she was there. Her eyes wandered to the claw machine filled with large stuffed toys.

She still remembered how easily Heath captured the Hello Kitty doll the first time. It was probably the first time she actually felt impressed by him. Who wouldn’t have? What he did was an impressive feat and if she could, she would want to see it again.

Claire’s thoughts were shattered to bits though when she remembered that the bastard wasn’t picking up his phone. She swore internally before finally going to the machine that needed checking.

When she finished there, she went back into her office and reported the problems, making sure they would get fixed. And then she went back and sat at her desk before finishing the rest of the papers.

At least that was what she wanted to do. But thoughts of Heath kept on flooding her mind and her concentration could not be focused on what was in front of her. She wanted to call him again. Her fingers were twitching from it.

But what would be the point of calling when he would most likely not answer? It was the afternoon. He as probably talking business with the contractors and looking at how the construction was going.

In the end, Claire just pulled out her cellphone and dialed his number. She pressed the phone up to her ear as she tapped a finger against the top of her desk. The phone rang a few times, but in the end, no answer again.