Chapter 3 three

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Dimitri parks the car and comes out to open the doors for Matilda and his boss Alberto.

He starts with Matilda's door again and then his boss's just as instructed.

"So far so good. Make sure you keep this up if you don't want to loose your job." Alberto warns his driver once more.

Dimitri nods and returns to the drivers seat.

Alberto meets Matilda where she is standing and attempts to hold her hand but she dodges his hand immediately and pretends it didn't happen.

"So where are we going?" Matilda asks.

"I will have to be careful with this man. It will be difficult for me to know if he is trapped in love or just flirting. But I think I will wait for some physical changes instead." Matilda thinks to herself.

Alberto holds back his hand feeling a bit dared. No lady has ever rejected that move by him. But yet there is something about her rejecting him that makes him want to have her the more.

"This way." Alberto says, gesturing her to follow him.

They walk to together till they enter a five star restaurant that selves only the best meals and personalities.

A man leads Alberto and Matilda to a table which Alberto had gotten reserved just that morning. Alberto is that rich to just walk into a restaurant and seat wherever he wishes without making any reservations.

While Alberto and Matilda makes themselves comfortable, a waitress approaches them.

"May I take your orders?" The waitress asks.

"What would you like?" Alberto asks Matilda.

"I will have whatever you are having." Matilda answers.

"Wow. You really want to take a risk in food?" Alberto says.

Alberto the leans forward on the table towards Matilda,

"Are you sure about that?" Alberto asks her.

Matilda leans forward as me,

"Without a doubt." She answers.

With his eyes still fixed on Matilda's and both of them still leaned to each other at the table Matilda orders for his favorite in that restaurant.

The waitress leaves to get it and Alberto and Matilda seats back on their seats.

"I am a gentleman, so I will warn you ahead of time. You can't handle what the waitress is bringing over so speak up now and I will order something else for you." Alberto says to Matilda.

"I can handle more than you can imagine." Matilda says to him.

The waitress returns with Alberto's order. She places a plate of it in front of Alberto and a plate in front of Matilda.

A glass of water for Alberto and a glass for Matilda.

The meal is a plate of very spicy beef lit on fire and is to be eaten as soon as possible.

"Enjoy." Alberto says to Matilda and starts to eat his with ease.

"This doesn't look half as difficult as the food I eat at home. This is going to be easy." Matilda thinks to herself.

She picks up the fork and sees the way Alberto is eating his first.

Alberto is dumping his into his mouth without blowing out the fire and he didn't show any effects that it was just causing any harm to him.

She did same thing by throwing hers into her mouth and she tried to chew but couldn't at first because of the way it burnt the upper part within her mouth.

She almost drops it out of her mouth but uses her right hand to cover her mouth instead.

She manages to finish that one piece but doesn't think she can eat one more of that without any help.

She looks over at Alberto and he is almost done with his. Even Alberto's glass of water is still full.

"There is no way I am letting him win this." She thinks to herself.

"Malum cogit humilem et humilem crinem occludere lovk it captionem meam transgressoribus arta "Matilda silently casts a spell and before she knew it she is eating the meal with ease.

Alberto looks at her in surprise. He was ahead of her but now he is the one left behind.

The truth is that no body else in that restaurant orders that meal apart from Alberto himself who is responsible for even adding it to the menu, or rather, his special personal menu.

"Could it be that she is one of us?" Alberto questions in his mind as he watches Matilda finish the meal.

"Done." Matilda says after eating the last piece.

"I can't ask her. If I do and she isn't then she will suspect something." Alberto gets lost in his thought.

"Alberto?" Matilda calls his name.

"Yes?" He answers.

"Your food is burnt now." Matilda says.

"Huh? Oh! Yes, you are right." Alberto says, coming back to his senses.

He calls for the waitress and had their table cleared before he orders a desert.

While eating the desert he uses the opportunity to find out more about Matilda.

"So Matilda, can you tell me more about yourself?" He asks.

"It depends on what you would like to know." She replies.

Alberto laughs.

"Why are you always like this?" Alberto asks her.

"Like what?" She questions back.

"In the car I had asked you where you wanted to go but then you replied, anywhere I want. And when I was ordering food I asked what you wanted but you told Mr that you will have whatever I am having. Now I am asking you to tell me more about yourself but you insist on telling me only what I need to know." Alberto explains.

"You have a lot of time to examine what you will never know." Matilda thinks to herself after Alberto finishes to speak.

"So? What's the problem? Why are you like that?" He asks her again.

"Nothing. I just choose to live that way. I don't like sharing much about my personal life and I am also new in this city." Matilda says to him.

"Ah. No wonder I haven't spotted such exquisite beauty in all my time moving round the entire city." Alberto says and winks at Matilda and she turns her gaze to the desert.

"So where did you come from?" Alberto asks.

Matilda hasn't thought that he would ask that question and she hesitates to answer.

"Well?" Alberto asks.

Matilda thinks fast of what she should say to him.

"I have such an ugly past in the town I had lived in. I don't want to talk about or say anything about it or the town." She replies, feeling relieved that she is able to reply with something that won't let him as her more about it.

"Are you okay?" Alberto asks Matilda.

"Yes I am fine." She replies.

"Why do you ask?" Matilda asks him.

"You haven't eaten anything. Your ice cream is melting." He answers.

"So is yours." She replies.

"I like mine melted." Alberto says.

"Well that's funny. I like mine melted as well." Matilda says.

"This is getting more suspicious. I am starting to really think she is one of us. She loves hot spicy food and detests cold ones just like I and the others do. But then what is she doing here? I and my second in command are the only ones who can switch between our world and earth with ease. Maybe I am just mistaken." Alberto gets deep into his own thoughts as he watches Matilda drink her melted ice cream.

"Well any normal human can love spicy food and hate cold deserts right? I am just thinking too much." Alberto thinks to himself.

"How do you like it?" Alberto asks Matilda.

"It's great." She replies him.

"I just hope my spies return with some useful information about her that will help me win the bet." Alberto thinks to himself.

Alberto had sent spies to Matilda's house to search it and get back to him if they find anything about her personal life and things that she is into so that he will be able to win her heart and break it as the bet with Francis goes.

... At Matilda's house...

"This door just seems to be locked tight. It's not budging at all." One of the three men sent by Alberto says to the rest.

"Step aside weakling." The second spy says and tries to open the door himself but it wouldn't budge.

"Come on. Move aside, watch and learn." The third spy says and tries his luck but it doesn't open.

"What the hell are we going to do now?-boss won't like it if we return empty handed." The first spy, says.

"How about we try the windows? And if it doesn't open we just break it open." The second spy suggests and the other two agrees with him.

They all start moving to the window but then the door swings open slowly, making a squeaking sound.

"Well that's odd." The third spy says.

"I guess all we needed to do is threaten the windows huh?" The first spy says and they all laugh.

In that area where Matilda had created a house for herself nobody cares about the next neighbor.

That is why even a the if can break into your house before their eyes and the won't do a thing about it.

That is also the reason theses three spies are feeling free to even laugh out loud in front of Matilda's house.

Little did they know what awaits them within.

The three of them step in after they were satisfied with the amount of laughter they had let out because of the joke.

Immediately the third spy steps in the door shuts itself with a loud bang and and all three spies shake in shock of the loud sound from nowhere.

"Okay guys. This is creeping me out." The third spy which had stepped in last and the door had shut behind him immediately, says.

"Oh just chill. Are you scared of the wind now?" The first spy says.

"It wasn't windy when we were outside." The third spy replies.

"Let's just do what we were sent here for okay?" The second spy says.

They spread out in Matilda's house. The first spy goes up stairs to Matilda's room, the second goes to her kitchen and the bathroom, while the third goes through the living room and dining.

They search through her things which she seems not to have much of.

They all gather in Matilda's living room to talk.

"Found anything?" They first spy asks the other two.

"No." The second and third spy replies in unison.

"How about you?" The second spy asks the first.

"Nothing at all." The first spy replies.

"This woman doesn't have anything in here. It just looks like she entered this house just yesterday after being homeless." The first spy says.

"You are right. It seems to me that the house doesn't even belong to her." The second spy says.

"Let's just get out of here and tell our boss that there is nothing. This place is nothing but a waste of time." The third spy says.

The other two agree and they all walk to the door.

"It won't budge." The first says.

The other two try to open the door but all to no avail.

The door seems shut for dear life.

"Let's try the windows." The third one suggests.

All three spies move about Matilda's house, trying to open a window but non opens.

When the finally reach the one for her room the room door shuts behind them and lock itself. Even the window didn't open no matter the force they apply.

"We are surely dead if she comes back and calls the cops on us! This house is haunted for sure and nothing seems normal to me!" The third spy exclaims.

"Just shut up and think of something useful." The first spy says to the third.

Matilda's bed starts to vibrate and all three of the spies in her room turn around to see what is vibrating.

They notice it is the bed and they watch the bed as it continues to vibrate and increase in the speed at which it does.

"Um... What's happening?..." The second spy asks.

The bed stops vibrating and then when they least suspect, the bed pounces at them as they all scream.