chapter 8: Take A Sip

" Welcome to our café, what can I get for you? "

Layla tried to focus on work instead of her missing Mirror.

" I want two middle cups one is black coffee and a latte, here please "

Mia ordered as she was about to pay but her bag is away.

" Bleh "

Layla tried to hold it in but she couldn't hide her disgust for black coffee, as she drank it once.

" Oh my god, I'm so sorry, I said something rude without thinking! It happens sometimes, how to explain this! I didn't mean it! "

Layla apologizes quickly as Mia is smiling, the whole conversation grabbed Benjamin's attention, and he lifts his sight from his phone looking at the barista.

" She is asking me to end her. "

Benjamin mumbled as he already knows the café's owner since he was a kid.

" It's okay, But my fiance is OBSESSED with black coffee, black things naturally. "

Mia decided to let it go for the poor barista who is about to cry.

" I'm sorry again miss I'll make your order right away. "

Layla ran to make their order.

" stupid mouth, I need this job, don't act on your own my brain! "

Layla mumbled as she sees if she had cream for the latté

"Good, it smells good. "

When Mia went to sit back, Benjamin is on his phone making some jobs-related calls as he is a bit bored, but he ended the call when Mia came.

" You heard that right? we can leave if her comment offended you, but she sounds like she didn't mean it, it came out naturally. "

He shuts Mia pointing his finger in front of her lips.

" I'm okay, I hear that a lot. "

" Babe, I forget my wallet can you pay? "

Mia is looking inside her bag as Benjamin inhaled before standing showing his tall handsome frame approaching the part-time barista.

She looks like in her late twenties, she is pretty skilled when it comes to preparing orders

Her hair is brown and she is pretty with a clean face.

Despite her shaking arms.

" One second. "

Layla said behind the counter as Benjamin rested his elbows waiting for her.

He is not bothered looking at hard-working humans, he hates laziness.

Maybe that's why he hates Mia because she just spends his money and her father's money.

Layla put two cups on the tray and then approached the handsome man in front of her as he is staring into her eyes.

Layla avoids looking at his blue eyes after what she said earlier.

He looks like a wolf who came to eat her up.

A handsome one?

" 20 $ please "

Layla gulped hard reaching out her hand as Benjamin is looking at the barista's tag name and then at her fake smile that she can't hold anymore.

Layla is terrified by his appearance yet amazed.

" He must be an actor or something. "

Layla thought to herself that she must seen him somewhere, in a magazine or something.

While Benjamin is looking at her interesting brown eyes that he saw once, on someone special.

But she can't be her.

They're totally different.

There's a difference between the elegant beauty who fought mafia members and had a crazy one-night stand with him.

His wild rabbit.

And this terrified puppy hides behind the counter after making an honest comment.

It's been six years already.

Maybe if he tastes her lips he would make sure?

Her blood?

The Devil chuckles at his thoughts.

As the staring competition between them took a long time, someone had to break the silence.

" 20$ sir "

Layla repeated raising her eyebrows at the man who blinks two times paying for the coffee

Layla thought that he is finally leaving, and she managed to go but instead, he grabbed her wrist saying.

" take a sip. "

Benjamin ordered her, looking into her eyes.

Layla blinked two times to make sure she heard him right.

He isn't joking?

" I'm sorry sir, What? "

Layla asked as Benjamin grinned.

" Take a sip. "

Benjamin repeated himself as Layla is thinking that he looks like a man who values his time, so why he is toying with her?

" Why the games sir? Go to your work. "

Layla tried to keep her temper to not kick that handsome dude who looks like a celebrity.

She used to be hotheaded but she learned the hard route, being angry is leading to a disaster.

And to not get kicked from this job either.

Benjamin is looking at her as if he knows she is the short-tempered type.

Which excites him more that she is trying to remain calm.

Benjamin is waiting for Her Outburst.

" There is always something delicious inside the bitterness, if you're patient enough, you will get to see it. "

Benjamin is talking smoothly as if he doesn't have work today, as if there is no play to act in.

On other hand, Layla is thinking about what kind of psycho is this, to begin with.

But now she is sure.

This man is high.

" I'm not as patient as you sir but still, I can't drink from your cup, I'm afraid my lips will ruin your coffee's taste. "

Layla challenged him resting her elbows casually as Benjamin's face is too close to hers.

Both parties kept staring at each other without blinking.

They're Like a magnet.

Benjamin decided to make the challenge harder as he raises his phone to his ear without getting away from her face, allowing her to hear the call.

" Hello Marlon, about the rude barista you hired. "

Without thinking, Layla reached out to Benjamin's mouth covering it with her palm as she felt his smile raising behind her hand.

" What about Layla? "

Layla heard the café owner's voice before Benjamin held her hand, making a way for him to breathe.

" Nothing, goodbye then. "

Benjamin ended the call as he got away a little crossing his arms and looking at Layla who is trembling from anger,

Preventing herself from punching his face.

Again.

Benjamin is amused by her look he wanted to torment her more and more.

He stared at the cup she made herself.

" C'mon take a sip, you didn’t spit on it? Did you? I would like it more anyway. "

Benjamin joked with her chuckling a little as Mia is watching from afar wondering what takes him so long and why he is laughing with a stranger all of a sudden.

He rarely laughs with Mia.

" Poor Barista, he must be torturing her over there. "

Mia folded her arms in jealousy, as she continues.

" Hah, I wish to be tortured too by him, to see him happy. "

Mia knew he is not flirting with the barista that's why she is calm, she knew Benjamin's joy is to torture people.

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For poor Layla who gulped hard holding the hot cup in her hands.

" It's too hot sir. "

Layla said staring at his blue eyes with disgust and anger, Benjamin let a fake sad face.

" I'm sure you will manage. "

Finally, Layla didn’t think much of it, it's not like she never tasted a hot bitter coffee before right?

She took a sip and closed her eyes in disgust sticking her tongue putting the cup down

" Augh bitter, YOU DEVIL PIECE OF GARBAGE. "

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To be continued