The Royal Contract

Chapter 317 - No Stalker

"I think you had fallen asleep again while working on your case. I was trying to wake you up, but you did not want to be disturbed. I tried to carry you back to the room, but you struggled in my arms." Alex explained to her what occurred while she was sleeping.

But the rest of the story, Dani was the only one who would know. That was if she could recall her dream and if she would share it with him.

"I did not notice that I had fallen asleep. I was working on a case." She told him as she tried to recall the next scene. But she was not even sure of what happened at the office or if she should even talk about it.

"Did your dream have something to do with what happened in the office?" He asked as he sat down on his chair and dragged her on his lap.

He wanted to get to the bottom of the problem. Allowing Dani to keep it from him was not the solution. After Ben told him about his observation, he set it aside as unusual but did not give it much thought.

After witnessing her breakdown, he contemplated if the incident in the office had anything to do with her current dream. It might be connected and might even be the reason for the fear he saw in her eyes.

"What do you know about what happened earlier?" She looked at him puzzled as she shifted in his lap, watching his face. She had not told anybody about it.

"Only that Ben noticed something was wrong with you when you called him and when you walked out of the elevator. He said that you looked like something frightened you." He narrated what Ben told him when he spoke to him earlier when he reported the incident.

"Oh. I did not know that I was that obvious. I thought I was able to hide it successfully. But it is nothing. I just got spooked in the office for no reason." She wanted to downplay the situation since she did not see the point of making a big deal out of it.

"Why don't you tell me about it and see if it was nothing." He encouraged her to share whatever it was that happened earlier. He could not assess the situation without any information. It might be something that they should be concerned about or ignore.

She started relating to him the scene that happened after Jacky had left. About the feeling that someone was outside her office, then Jacky's things, dropping on the floor.

She kept insisting that no one was around when she checked the other room and the hallways. She was sure that the other employees had already left because Jacky was the last one with her.

"Well, it could be anything or be nothing at all." He also could not explain the event since he was not present in the scene. But from her story, it could be just an unfortunate accident that led Jacky's things to fall.

"But did that already frighten you to the point that you had some bad dreams?" He felt that Dani was a strong and independent woman. It would take more than that to scare a woman like her.

"Actually. Something else did happen while I returned to my table to work." She continued with her story. "It felt like someone was watching me. But as I said earlier, there was no one else on that floor except me."

She could swear that she did not see or sense someone else on the floor. The possibility of someone else hiding in the other offices might be slim to none. Each office had its security lock.

"Are you sure?" He was slightly alarmed with her latest revelation. It was not something that they should set aside without investigating. "That is all that happened."

He could tell that she was still keeping something from him. There was something else that might have happened in the office. She might be forgetting to relate to him.

"Well." She thought about the last thing on her mind if it was worth mentioning.

"What is it?" He pushed her to tell him about it.

He could see the hesitation in her voice. But she needed to share with him what made her seem afraid of the incident earlier.

"After that, I decided to fix my things and readied myself to leave. I was bringing home my work and continued it here." She related to him.

She jumbled her memory, hoping to make sense of what was popping on her mind, but she could only conclude that it was just a figment of her imagination.

But then again, she continued with her story. "But when I reached the inside of the elevator, I noticed a shadow in the hallway. However, the door was already closing. I could not get a better look at what it was."

She suddenly felt foolish for sharing that last part with him. She hid her face on his shoulders. "It was probably nothing. Just my mind playing tricks on me." She added, not wanting him to think that she was being silly.

"If you saw it, it could be something. Let us not easily disregard it as nonsense. Let me check on David if they had cameras installed on that floor." He told her, suddenly aware that there might be someone stalking her fiancé.

But he was not discounting the possibility that it was her fatigue mind, conjuring up images from her memory. "But it could also be just like you said nothing, produced by your tired mind." He suddenly retracted his words, not wanting her to worry about the situation.

"Yeah, I think I am just tired and stressed with work. Now, I even brought it in my dreams." She smiled at him as she looked up to stare at his face, giving him a quick kiss on the lips.

"So, would you like to watch a horror movie now?" He teased her as he continued kissing her.

He tried to distract her from the earlier incident, which seemed to be working.. But he would have it investigated to assure himself and Dani that there was no stalker following her.