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Chapter 37 - Investigation (I)

I stepped inside the shop, leaving Christian outside. I strolled to the counter to assist Theodore, who's creating their order. I reinstated Jennie's job to the counter and began to welcome all the customers before asking for their orders. 

Yoongi sauntered out of the kitchen. His gaze went to my direction when noticing my glance at him. He strode towards me and stood beside me as he arranged the pastries on the plate for the customer's order. 

"Yoongi." He hummed.

"We need something to do after work so be ready," I explained while giving the change for the customers. 

"Was it about the one who's following you?" I nodded. 

"Who's following you?" I groaned when Theo overheard our conversation so I slowly whirled my head to face him and suddenly looked away when seeing him glaring at me while his arms crossed.

"It was nothing, Theo."

"It has something so tell me." He threatened me to confide him, so I need to think of a lie that could persuade him.

"It was Yoongi. Someone followed him last night so we want to inspect the footage and see who's coming after him."

"Oh okay, I thought someone was following you. Yoongi you need to be more careful." Yoongi nodded as he looked away. 

"See, that's why I can't tell Theo," I murmured to Yoongi before going back to work. 

After hours of working, I told Yoongi to come with me to the office to inspect all the footage at the shop. 

Theodore wanted to come with us because he's very curious about the situation. I halted from coming with us knowing that he'll be worried about me and never leave my side.

"What do you want me to do?" Yoongi asked as he sat beside me. 

"I want you to contact the staff that operates the CCTV around the place from yesterday until today," I explained as I opened the footage of the CCTV to see if I can discern her face and where she's coming from. 

"That's a lot of work Mia. Do you really want to know that girl?" He asked

"I need to know who she was. She kept heeding me since yesterday so I won't let this slide. Just contact the operator so we could get the footage tomorrow. And we'll be closing the shop tomorrow so we could have a day off." I clarify as I keep staring at the footage. 

"Two of us haven't a day off since we need to investigate this woman." He said but I chose to ignore him and focused on the footage.

The footage at the shop was not enough to identify the woman's appearance but it's visible that she's staring at the direction of the shop while standing in front of it. The first footage was yesterday in the morning, she sauntered in front of the shop as she was gazing at the vicinity and her gaze went back at the shop. 

The second footage was yesterday after I walked out of the shop and passed the girl. She wandered behind me and nothing important saw in the footage "How didn't I notice her last night?" I whispered while looking at the footage. 

"Who?" 

"The girl last night," I uttered. My eyes went wide when another footage caught my attention. 

"Yoongi, take a look at this." He looked on the screen. I looked at Yoongi, who's very aghast when he witnessed the footage.

"W...what." Yoongi stopped when the woman got back to the shop as she's striving to unlock the main door and as she did that, she attained inside the shop. 

I searched for other footage that was located inside the shop and started to search on the cabinets before going inside the pantry and she reached the office. 

"Yoongi, check the cabinets if something's missing." He went out of the office as I examined the footage, where she looked around the office and placed a paper inside the cabinet before going out of the office. I stood up and examined all the important documents inside this room. 

Luckily, the important documents didn't miss. 

One thing I noticed in the footage was the paper that she placed inside the cabinet. I opened the cabinet and noticed the unfamiliar letter. 

I turned off the computer before going out of the office. I saw Yoongi, clenching his fist while looking outside. He flinched when I tapped his shoulder to get his attention. I gave him his bag before walking out of the shop and locked the main door.

"What happened?" I asked him.

"I noticed the girl in front of the shop while I was examining the cabinets. And when she noticed my presence, she walked away." I sighed as we walked faster to reach my apartment. 

"I'll be sleeping at your apartment so we could take off to the office of the operating system for the footage." I nodded as I opened my door. I placed myself on the couch when my body was weary.

"What's this?" Yoongi asked when he lifted the paper up. 

"I don't know. Where did you get it?" He pointed the small table underneath the stairs. I grabbed the letter out of his hand. 

"It's the letter that Theo gave me after the vacation. Why did I forget about the letter?" I muttered before opening the letter.

My lady in a coffee shop,

I heard that you closed your shop for three days and I'm very sad when I heard so I decided to write you a letter and tell you that have fun with your vacation! I know it's getting cold right now but I hope you can enjoy it along with your friends. 

I know that you need a long vacation so you could relax and walk out of the toxic people around you. But even if you're stressed about the shop, your face shines as if it was a lovely bright sun. Since you are my sun that gives heat through my heart. 

But I hope you'll be happy and I'll wait for you at the shop to see your beautiful smile again. 

My angel eyes.

Secret Admirer

I folded the letter and placed it on the table. I kept grinning from that simple letter. "That letter made you happy. Let's see if you'll be happy if you discover who's following you." He sat beside me as I glared at him. 

"Don't take my happiness away, Yoongi."

"Am I?" He smirked at me as he wrapped his arms around my shoulder. 

"You really like pissing me off." I rolled my eyes at him and pushed his arms away from my shoulder before standing up. 

"Don't forget that we'll arrive at the office, early in the morning."

"I will. Ohh, tell them that we'll not be operating the shop tomorrow." He nodded. 

I walked inside my room and threw myself on the bed while looking at the ceiling.

"Whoever you are, please stop following me. I just want a peaceful life," I whispered.