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thinking.  What could it hurt?  If it worked, I would at least be able to fight back.  I wasn’t losing anything to just try.  “Okay, I’ll try.”  I said.  Everyone looked a mixture of surprise that I said yes and happiness that I was staying.
    “Good!  Garret will bring you to the gym I teach at this evening.  You can watch my last class, and then we will do our thing.”
     
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    The rest of the day, I was actually getting excited for this lesson.  The only thing that marred my little bit of happiness is the phone calls I had answered again today.  There was a total of five today to where when I answered, nobody said anything.  It was starting to make me nervous.  I decided to talk to Garret about it after work.
    After I logged out of my computer and clocked out, I sat in Garret’s office while he finished a conference call with several people working on the hotel project that he had signed the contract on yesterday.  When it was over, he started gathering all of his papers into his briefcase.  I helped him, and decided to go ahead and bring it up while it was just the two of us.
    “Mr. Starr, I need to tell you about something.”  I said softly looking down.
    “We aren’t friends then?”  He asked.
    “Huh?”
    “I thought, after today, we were finally classified as friends, but if we were, you’d be calling me Garret, not Mr. Starr.”  He answered with a smirk.
    I blushed because I didn’t really mean to do that.  “Sorry, Garret.  It’s habit now.”
    “It’s alright.  What were you saying?”
    “Oh, yea, um…today and yesterday, I’ve answered a few strange calls.”  I said hesitantly thinking he would probably think it was my imagination.  “They are hang ups.  Just breathing, no talking, and then they hang up.”
    “Why didn’t you get me as soon as it happened?”  He asked, concern lacing his voice, and immediately coming to my side putting a hand at the small of my back, sending shivers down my spine.
    “Well, yesterday, you know why, and today I tried to explain it away, but I can’t.  All other calls come through fine.  It’s just making me kind of nervous.”
    He moved to put both of his hands on my shoulders, rubbing them slightly, and looked down into my eyes.  “Please, Dina, tell me when anything happens that get you nervous, or makes you think something is happening or someone is watching you.  I have to be able to trust you to do that.  It’s the only way I can protect you and keep you safe.”  He ran the back of his fingers down my cheek.  “I know you’ve been ignoring what I said before I confessed, but I’m not going to let it go.  I really would like to be with you, but I’ll wait as long as you need.”
    I could see the sincerity in his eyes.  I was speechless.  This Adonis of a man wanted me?  How the hell did that happen?
     
     
    Chapter 5
     
     
    When we made our way to the parking deck on the side of our office building, I saw a black 2011 Lexus LX SUV sitting in the first parking space that I started drooling over, and Garret walked right over to it.  I looked at the sign designating who the space belonged to, and sure enough it had his name and occupation on it.  He opened the passenger door for me to get in, and the only thought in my head was ‘WOW’.  The whole interior was done in Cashmere leather with African Bubinga wood accents.  It had a CD player with an iPod port, and a GPS in the middle of the dash.
    “This is a really nice car.”  I said after he helped me in and then got in on his side.  It was an understatement, but I didn’t know what else to say.  I was still very confused and nervous about the conversation we’d just had.  “Oh, yeah!  Can you take me to my place so I can change?  I can’t do much of anything in these clothes.”
    “Sure, no problem.  I can check on Ma while I’m there.”
    “No, she said she’d