The Last Queen Book One by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy series, action urban fantasy, magic adventure
Publisher: Odette C. Bell
Published: 2017-06-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

I DON’T STRIDE STRAIGHT into Rowley Tower. I’m smarter than that now.

I appreciate I need to have more than a single conversation with the guy – I need to get close enough to him that I can spy on him permanently.

Which means one thing – I need to go for a job.

Though I have the requisite skills to go into security, I want to keep as far away from Antonio as I can.

I settle for a secretarial position. And luckily enough for me, one has come up.

I don’t have a CV, I don’t have references, but that doesn’t matter. Because I have something far more important.

I have the ability to change my appearance. I tell myself that even if I fail to get this secretarial position, I can just go for a cleaning position, or a receptionist position. Now I can disguise myself, all I have to do is be creative and persistent.

I can also be my own referee. All I have to do is show up disguised as another person.

I don’t get the secretarial position, but I do manage to get a position as a nighttime cleaner, and before I know it, I finally have access to Rowley tower.

Even if I can’t spy on John during the day, in many ways, my position as a cleaner is far more advantageous. It gives me access to the building. And my growing magic? Gives me access to everything else.

The first day I start work, I’m nervous. I hide it, though. Which is easy now I can disguise myself.

I think I’ll have time to slip through John’s offices, but I don’t. This tower is so large that the cleaning staff is substantial.

So I finish work and head home. It’s the same for the next week and a half. Before I know it, I kind of slip back into my old life – or at least a variation of it. Though I no longer can afford to hunt during the night, and I don’t have a house to call my own, I come to work and earn a paycheck.

In fact, nothing happens until I’m working late one night.

I’m mopping the floors in the atrium, the reception staff packing up behind me.

No one pays attention to me. The cleaning staff, it seems, are invisible.

Antonio is finally back at work, and I’m starting to appreciate he actually lives in this building. He’s more than John’s head of security – it seems he’s John’s bodyguard, too.

Though I haven’t been able to do any quality snooping over the past week and a half, at least being in this building has taught me something. Not least about the energy of the place itself.

I haven’t clapped eyes on John since I started working here, but that doesn’t matter – because this entire building is imbued with him. I swear that every section of concrete, stone, and steel somehow vibrates with his very presence. And every day I come to work, it fills me with this sense... that I’m somehow in the only place I should be.

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