I tried to know the name and job of the closest woman to Blake at the lab.

i had finally grown so closer to him that now, he would give me a special workout to build my muscles and my perseverance. He was my instructor now. I could talk to him almost whenever I wanted. Unless he was having anger attacks.

And doing it on purpose to scare people.

I had already been undercover at the lab for three weeks and was finally finding some strong leads. But I only had one month and one week left.

the first time I saw the woman was at his office. that's the only place where she seemed to be. I had never seen her anywhere else. Every time they spoke he would hold her arm until the veins in his arms would pop up.

It was always one of those times again. Why did he want to scare her so bad? To not come forward to the police with accusations?

"did you finish typing my message"? he asked her.

she shook her head. she had back to me in a long black robe. Even if she faced me, it wouldn't change anything because it was covered with a black veil. As if Blake or herself didn't want anybody to know her by her face.

He held her arm harder.

"Why?" he said between clenched teeth.

"I was finishing the other work you gave me." her voice was higher-pitched now. Definitely a woman. And definitely scared.

"where you wasting time? do you think I'm dumb?"

"no."

I was trying to find a lull in the conversation to say and know more about her. But there wasn't any. Anytime I opened my mouth, they would start speaking again. And the one time that I did, Blake gave me such a cold stare, I knew if I spoke again he might just ban me. or start treating me like his "woman."

He released her arm.

"what other work did you finish?"

"I finished writing your article, five emails, and also sewing your clothes."

I raised my eyebrows. What? Was she a housemaid that followed him to the lab? Or his wife that he was abusing?

She seemed to care about him. And you might say that he cares too but doesn't know how to love the right way. That he was hiding his pain behind his violent actions.

Watching them put me in a trance for a long time. And when I came back to earth, it wasn't a sicker version of Ken, and Cherry. But there were two people breaking each other's heart repeatedly in the name of love. They were almost done talking.

I lost my chance.

"ok go work on writing the new emails and then you go back to write in the old ones and don't forget to sew all of my clothes OK . otherwise I'll be angry and you know what happens when I'm angry "

I curled up my lips in disgust. what did he do when he was angry? Hit her? In 2500?

she nodded. and just as I opened my mouth to say something, a door I didn't know existed - on my left the same colour as the wall - opened and she disappeared inside.

she was so swift when walking, almost like a ghost flying over the floor.

"OK." he said, "Time to take care of you."

I raised an eyebrow. That sounded wrong. He was supposed to give me a new workout (training routine).

The way he said it gave me chills. He was mad. How hard was he going to go on me?

There were three weeks left. If I didn't upgrade my game, I would never know his name.

And I had myself and the woman he abused to save from Blake.