Chapter 2

• Elijah Cohen studied the rectangle of white that gleamed in the doormat. It looked like an envelope. Who would have slid this under his hotel door?
• He heard a knock on his door as his best friend Louis entered with three chefs behind him. He made a motion with his hands inspecting the chefs as they entered the room and placed the tray of food on the table.
• Elijah looked at Louis as he stepped on the white envelope. "I didn't know people still send messages through handwriting letters," Louis said as he picked it up.
• "Hey bud, I never said you could enter my room." Elijah faked a frown on his face as he collected the letter from Louis and turned the envelope over.
• He read the printing at the back of the envelope and it was addressed to him by Mrs. Cohen.
• "Why would Mother send a message through handwriting letters and not a phone?" He asked as he opened the letter in front of Louis who was already sitting comfortably on the couch.
• Elijah frowned. "It's blank but..." He noticed a shiny substance and opened the paper completely. Glitters fell to the ground and immediately he knew who the letter was from.
• "Mrs. Cohen sent a blank letter to you with glitters. She sure loves to play." Louis commented as he opened the food to eat.
• "The letter was from Britney. She is the only person who uses glitter in everything she does and besides, don't you think you are too comfortable in my suite?" Elijah questioned as he continued. "Just because this is your hotel doesn't mean you could come into my room without permission every time I come to your hotel to spend some alone time."
• Elijah's voice was calm as he spoke. Louis had always been like that to him right from childhood and he just won't change.
• His parents and the popular Cohen had shared a tight friendship from the very beginning of building their career and Louis had always been a brother and not just a friend to Elijah. He had always been there when Elijah needed him.
• Louis ignored what Elijah said and smiled at him instead. "Why would your sister send a blank letter with glitters? Did she do something to piss your father off again?" Asked Louis.
• Elijah sighed. "I guess so. The last time she needed money, she wrote on my car and ruined it just because she doesn't want her father to trace her number to mine. Britney is so dramatic." He said as he sat down next to Louis on the couch. He opened the food. "Dad must have blocked her card again."
• "She hates staying home that much?"
• "Father does this thing every time. He loves intruding into our private lives and now Britney is not ready to have that conversation with him. Maybe he is scared she won't listen and turns to follow the path Abraham followed." He laughed and Louis joined. "I guess that was why Abraham left home and now he is loaded with money, but trust me, Britney won't call him and ask him for money."
• "He does illegal jobs and he is one of the youngest mafias and I still wondered why your brother is not in jail for selling drugs," Louis said.
• "Father always saves his ass every damn time."
• "Will you help your sister?" Louis asked. He opened the bottle of water in front of him and he drank all in one goal.
• "Of course but not like this, if father finds out I gave her money without him knowing, he will be forced to bring grandparents into this. I need to find a way to pass the money across to her."
• "Luckily for you, I know someone who goes to Harvard too. She is my friend's sister. She could help." said Louis.
• "Please help me give her this money." He said as he wired the money to Louis's account. "I will talk to her later when I see her."
• Louis received the money and start to smile as he continued to press his phone. Elijah didn't know what was going on with him so Elijah dragged the phone away from him to see what was making Louis smile so hard.
• A girl?
• Louis struggled to take his phone back but couldn't meet up to Elijah's strength so he gave up.
• Elijah smirked. He seemed interested in the picture he was staring at. "So she made you smile? Who is she?" He asked as he start to smile.
• "That's Claire Hutton. The most beautiful girl I know."
• "She is pretty," Elijah said and Louis looked at him. He knew his friend was good with girls but this was the first time he would hear Elijah say a girl was pretty and that alone was surprising.
• "I know she is. Her smile could turn a dark and moody room to somewhere lively."
• "Hmm." Elijah continued to smile as he scrolled through Claire's picture. "And you have a crush on her?" He asked.
• "I don't have a crush on Claire. I just fancy her."
• Elijah knew he was lying.
• "Her birthday is tomorrow. You could wish her. She is a huge fan of your mom and doesn't even know you and I are friends so she would be happy to hear from the handsome and famous Elijah Cohen." Louis winked at him.
• "I think I should wish her."
• "That's what I said and no no no, don't you think about her that way. What's with that look on your face? She is not like those girls you dated or played with. She is clean and innocent and deserves the world so you should wish her but please nothing more than that."
• He took Claire's number from Louis's phone and gave Louis's phone back to him.
• Elijah stood up from the couch. "I have some work to do and I might not go to work tomorrow. I need to rest from all this stress."
• Louis checked his phone to look at Claire's picture but Elijah already deleted it. "You deleted the pictures?!!!"
• "You don't have a crush on her so why keep her pictures?" He asked as he walked to the other room. Louis kept searching and even went to his recent delete but Elijah already wiped the pictures off completely from his phone.
• "I wanted to post her picture you asshole," Louis screamed as he groaned loudly but all Elijah could do was laughed silently in the other room.
• Louis began to regret having his best friend see Claire's picture. He knew the kind of person Elijah was. A lion but also fragile and dangerous and Claire isn't for someone like him.
• She is a very fragile person who keeps on getting hurt and she kept on choosing love over everything else. Oh, he hoped nothing but friendship happened between them even though he knew that was a lie.
• Elijah sat on the chair and turned his laptop on as he smiled at Claire's picture on his phone. He had done a wicked thing to his friend by sending Claire's picture to himself and deleting it from Louis's phone but he wasn't feeling bad for doing that. Louis had told him he doesn't have feelings for the girl and he does not want Louis to like her even though Louis was lying to him about his feeling for Claire.
• Earlier that day, he had been getting emails from different kinds of people who wanted the manager position but no one met his interest. He wanted someone he could relate to, someone he could communicate with, and the more he read these people's information, the more they just didn't meet up.
• He was about to turn his laptop off when the name 'Claire Hutton' popped up.
• She had sent a mail which he wasn't expecting.
• He clicked on it just to confirm if it was the same Claire Hutton his friend Louis talked about and it was.
• The same girl he was about to wish a happy birthday when the time hit noon. The same girl he had fallen for at the first sight of seeing her pictures earlier.
• He smiled knowing he had found the person he wanted.
• "This Isn't coincidental. It's fate."
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