The Fifth Letter Of The Alphabet
“Get in!”
The guy in an expensive Paul and Smith three-piece suit get in the Exelero and whistled, seeing her behind the steering wheel.
“My you aren’t just a pretty good driver but hot damn babe, you look amazing!”
His eyes took in her looks the moment he sat down on the passenger seat of the Excelero. And just like his mouth, his eyes were tackless with giving a compliment.
She’s not blaming him if his eyes were about to pop out of his socket seeing how she looks behind the wheel. She was out on a normal day with Dana. She has her wavy soft brown locks unrestraint. Whenever she is in the WIZ, her hair was always up in a bun or in a braid.
But today, they were flowing freely in her back. And she was wearing a Dolce Gabbana mini dress, with a Peter Pan collar. She looks damn innocent and sweet in her outfit. She blames it on Dana’s choice of outfit. She was looking sweet and girly so, instead of wearing her usual jeans and t-shirt, she wore a dress not to look like a squid next to her.
The mini dress has a decent length, it falls right above her knees, however, now that she is sitting down, the dress was hitched, showing half of her thighs. So, she can’t really blame this guy. She looks pretty damn good!
Thus, she decided to forgive the bastard, because she doesn’t get a bad vibe from him, though on normal days, this guy would get a punch in the face with his sleazy remarks, and the way he kept on calling her ‘babe’. But not today. Today, Ellise was feeling rebellious and courting trouble - just like her sixteen years old self.
She thought she kept her sixteen years old self in check, but apparently, she was wrong. Totally wrong. She still has that stupid sixteen years old kid in her.
“If you don’t want me to kick you off the car, stop calling me babe.” she gave him a warning look before getting out of the basement parking and the car hits the busy road of the shopping district.
She took the car right to the district, for though it is crowded, the road they are on would take her to the highway ahead where she could step on the gas pedal of the Exelero to show this guy how good she is behind the wheel.
“If you don’t want me to call you babe, care to tell me your name?” he asked, grinning.
“E.”
“E? Like the fifth letter of the alphabet?” he arched his brow in disbelief. “Your mother couldn’t be bothered giving you a proper name?”
“I have a proper name. But, why would I tell you that?”
“Well, I gave you my calling card. You knew who I am.”
“Anybody could have a calling card with a COO as a title on them. You are still a fucking stranger to me,” she said, taunting. She was pretty sold out that he gave her his real information based on the expensive suit he was wearing. Also, she has an idea who is the Chos.
However, Alexander Cho doesn’t know that. And she wanted it that way. She doesn’t want this man to know who she is. She doesn’t want to tell him her real name. Especially her mother’s name. She has a vague recollection that her grandfather had some business dealings with the Chos in the past. They might still have some business ventures together.
“Will then, E it is. I will call you Miss E, are you fine with it?”
“Suit yourself.” She hid a smile on her lips because she got what she wanted when she gave him the name E. She was expecting him to call her Miss E.
“How long have you been racing?”
“What makes you think I go racing?”
“You don’t? You could have fooled me if I didn’t see you having this Exelero fly along the highway.”
She scoffed lightly with the way he was questioning her. “What you saw is how I usually drive.”
He chuckled on the passenger seat. While he got pissed off when she avoided his questions, there was something about her that he finds amusing. She has a certain aura around her that screams fuck off, despite the sweet girl image she has with the dress she was wearing.
He tightened his seatbelt when she turned left and the street there are on has fewer cars in sight. He knew that she would go for this highway the moment she entered the crowded street of the shopping district.
‘Not racing my ass.’, he thought smirking. She wouldn’t know that this highway has fewer cars during this hour if she doesn’t do car racing. This street is a personal favorite of people who likes to speed up in the road.
Speeding on a highway gives a different high than a race track. The excitement and the adrenaline come from the fact that it is illegal to speed up at these places. You can get caught and an accident could happen.
From her peripheral vision, Ellise saw Alexander tightened up his seatbelt. An amused smirk tugged the corner of her mouth. He knew what was going to happen and he was already anticipating it. He must have a race on this street before.
She slowly put more pressure on the gas pedal of the Exelero when they entered the highway. This highway would take them to an Express Way all the way to the next city. And that said Express Way was the one she wanted and needed to give Alexander Cho a good show.
She was ready to give him the best experience of riding shotgun with her when her phone ringtone blared up inside the car. ‘Shit. Did Dana go home too early?’, she wondered if she was being goody old shoes again.
She checked the watch on her wrist and saw that she doesn’t have enough time to return to the garage without Madame Bae chewing her up. But then, where’s the fun of that? Even if she goes home now, she would still get scolded.
“You got a curfew or something,” he said, taunting.
She doesn’t like the smirked on this jerk’s face, was her last thought when she floored the Exelero that shut him up.