Office Romance with a Werewolf - Chapter 94

“We need to hurry! The spell is going off!”

They hurriedly ran into the comfort room and were thankful no one had seen their melting faces that were changing back to their original appearance.

“Hey, Sir Wendell, why did you hire her? Isn’t it better for her to not be accepted into this weird company? Huh?” Randell paused after realizing Wendell was not inside the comfort room.

“Sir Wendell?” He checked on each cubicle first before going out.

“Why did he leave?” Randell rubbed his neck as he wondered why Wendell had suddenly left him alone.

“Sir Randell! You were just here? I have been looking for you.”

Randell smiled toward the person who had suddenly come rushing towards him.

“Who is this guy?” he wondered. He stops trying to recognize him because he is sure it is someone Ranz knew.

“Safety Officer.”

He just peeked at the man’s ID to get an idea of how he would approach him.

“Yes sir? How can I help you? ”

“Oh. The Bureau of Fire is visiting soon. Why aren’t you at the office?”

“Oh, no! Sorry? Let’s go.”

The man was panicking, which made Randell think it was something important. That is why he hurriedly walked back to their office while the man walked back with him.

“Sir Randell!”

Everyone’s faces brightened the moment they saw Randell enter the door. He took a step back, getting scared of their gazes, but he was pushed forward by the safety officer who called him.

Everyone made their way over and let him stand directly in front of the visitors.

Ranz’s officemates rely so much on him that they mostly give him the hardest jobs. And facing the eagle-eyed inspectors of fire is one of these.

“Wait!! I don’t even know what to do.” He panicked internally as it was Ranz’s job and not his. The fear of making mistakes and messing up Ranz’s jobs made him blank out, and he stiffened in front of the visitors.

“You must be the safety officer. Shall we start the inspection?” One of the inspectors said

Randell looked at the two other safety officers, wondering why they didn’t introduce themselves as one.

The two safety officers just gave him a thumbs up and told him to go and bare the suffering alone.

Randell frowned, but he still followed the inspectors.

They just move around the building, checking fire exits to see if they are really accessible, fire safety exit signs, fire alarms, and fire extinguishers to see if they have passed their expiration date yet.

Things were going well, and Randell just followed them while answering them with an awkward yes and no until one of the inspectors started questioning things he didn’t have knowledge about.

“How is the sprinkler system in the kitchen area?” The inspector pointed to the sprinkler on the ceiling.

“They are working fine, sir.” He answered without confidence, but he assumed that it was working well.

The inspector just wrote something on his checklist and moved on to another question.

It took them hours to finish walking around the entire building, and that sapped his energy.

“Working is hard; adult life was hard.” He realized it in himself.

“That’s all we need. CTC is still excellent at keeping your building safe from fire.”

Randell just smiled because he just felt that the inspector was complementing him.

There’s a long, agonizing silence between them, as if the inspector was waiting for Randell to say something, but he had no idea about it and just stared back at them awkwardly.

“Anyway, when are you going to do the fire drill and train the staff on workplace fire prevention and safety measures?”

Randell stiffened again as he could not answer him with a specific date. That’s why he just answered him with an awkward response.

“I’ll inform you once we have a specific date.”

“Okay, I hope you won’t forget.”

“No sir, we won’t.”

Randell sent them off, and once he went back to their department office, his officemates came rushing into him again.

“Why did you go back early?”

“Is there something wrong?”

“Hmm? Things were fine. Why? ”

“Then why did you go back too early?”

“Why? I shouldn’t be back yet?”

“Hey, don’t pressure Sir Randell like that; he’s been doing his job well.”

Everyone nodded in agreement.

“Okay, so how much did it cost?”

“Cost what?” Randell asked innocently. He has been clueless the whole time that he has been guessing all the responses he has given.

“You didn’t give them boodle?”

“Boodle?” Randell tilted his head.

“I didn’t know I should feed them. And why must it be boodle? That’s unhygienic.”

Randell was referring to boodle as a “boodle fight” – a traditional Filipino method of eating with the bare hands. It is also used to describe the Filipino communal feast where food is served on banana leaves and eaten without utensils.

While his officemates are referring to “boodle” – a bribe.

“Haha! Sir Randell, I didn’t know you knew how to joke as well. ”

The people around them laughed loudly, while Randell kept his confused expression.

“I wasn’t joking. I actually send them out after they’ve done the inspection.”

“What?”

“Really?”

Everyone started to panic, and they anxiously paced back and forth in front of Randell.

“Why did you do that, sir?”

“Are you doing this because we’ve been passing the hard job to you?”

Randell didn’t have the chance to respond because everyone had left him one by one.

“Did I mess up or not?” Randell asked himself as he felt a sudden coldness in the room.

He just returned to his seat and opened his computer to learn more about Ranz’s job.

“Hmm?”

He clicked a file named after Ranz, which is rare because Ranz has been introducing himself throughout the years.

“Four-character password?” he thought for a moment before he typed the passcode.

N I D A

Randell chuckled once the file was unlocked by Nida’s name.

“I should have checked this first before I went through all that trouble.”

Randell regretted not checking Ranz’s computer first. The locked file had all the information he needed regarding his job, including a description of all the people with whom he would be interacting.

“But I am bad at memorizing.”

Randell suddenly feels lazy by just looking at all the letters on the screen.

He felt dizzy just looking at it.

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“Done!”

Daniel stretched out his body as he finally finished recasting the spell of the Goddess Mila.

He then teleported back to his house to wash himself because he spent his days strengthening the spell.

“I hate my job!” he shouted as he rubbed soap into his body. He put soap and shampoo on twice to make up for all the days he couldn’t wash up.

In frustration, he screams, “Fuck this job!” and throws his soap.

He doesn’t know why he keeps doing his priest job even though it keeps him dealing with dirt when he hates being unclean the most.

“I still need to deal with the naughty wolf!” Daniel wanted to hit his head against the wall as he felt tired just thinking about work.

Ding dong

Ding dong

He stopped grumbling inside his shower and went out of his room the moment he heard someone ringing his doorbell.

“What?” He coldly asked while his hair was still dripping with water, as he had only wrapped himself in a towel.

Pina’s jaw drops at the sight, and she immediately refocuses her mind not to be tempted by Daniels’ enthralling appearance.

Even just staring at him makes Pina thirsty.

Ehem!

She cleared her throat first before speaking.

“Sir, did you track the wrong wolf?”

“Wrong what?”

“I checked on the wolf you said had trapped the goddess in his own spatial spell, and he should be unconscious as well, but he was not in his home.”

“Then you should look in other places; perhaps he’s been knocked out somewhere.”

“No sir, I saw him going to work.”

“That’s impossible. I am sure the goddess wouldn’t send me the wrong information.”

Daniel brushed his wet hair up while thinking about what had gone wrong.

“Wait for me here. I’ll see that wolf.”

“Yes, sir.”

Daniel went up to his room again, while Pina finally could breathe properly once she could no longer see Daniel’s breathtaking body.

ten minutes…

Thirty minutes…

Forty-five minutes…

It had been almost an hour since Pina had been waiting, but Daniel wasn’t done dressing up.

“He beat girls at dressing up that long.” She remarked, perplexed as to what Daniel was doing and why it was taking him so long to head out.

In fact, Daniel had to disinfect first the clothes he would be wearing, which were already washed and stored in his cabinet, then he pressed them again, even though he had already ironed them before he stored them in his wardrobe.

Brushing his teeth also took fifteen minutes of his time, and applying some lotions and repellants also took much of his time.

“Are you that tired?” Daniel asked, which made Pina jolt out of the couch.

She didn’t notice him going down the stairs because she ended up sleeping from waiting too long for him to finish.

“No, I am not, sir.” She replied while wiping off her drool.

Daniel then checked his couch to see if there was drool and sprayed disinfectant spray on it.

Pina wasn’t offended by her boss’s behavior, but she couldn’t get used to it no matter how much she was treated as the dirtiest elf on earth.

“Let’s go.”