"Save your breath sweetheart. I'm not leaving here until you have my shirt washed and ironed."
"We will see about that!" She said and disappeared for a minute. Tebogo took her glass from the table and sipped her wine unworried. He knew she would be back and what she had in mind.
Mandisa didn't disappoint. She came back with her cell phone in hand.
"Good idea. You are ordering pizza." He teased her. Mandisa gave him a cold murdering look then punched numbers.
"If you are calling the security, don't waste your time." He told her sipping her wine. "I've already had a word with them and they know I'm spending the night."
"Like hell you are." She answered but Tebogo noted that her finger froze on the dial pad. She believed him easy enough and that surprised him. She was a lawyer. One could tell by the way her mind worked. She was calculative, sharp and fearless. Three attributes every lawyer should have. And the first rule in being a lawyer was never believe everything you hear and never trust everything you see.
"Like hell I'm not." He said imitating her. "You are nowhere close of getting my shirt wearable again and it's…" He checked his watch. "…Past seven so that means I'm going to be here a long time. The guards are okay with that."
"Actually, I was calling the police." Mandisa told him with a smile that warmed his heart. It wasn't sweet or charming just derogatory. "I have little faith in the guards taking the fact that they allowed a rodent like you to stroll into the building." Mandisa said her finger unfreezing and finished punching in the numbers.
"Good idea. Oh and ask for Sergeant Mazibuko, he has a soft spot for damsels in distress and tell him to remind Captain Le Roux about lunch on Saturday." Tebogo said not looking at her. He was getting to know her so well that he felt her eyes on the back of his head and he knew that she was trying to stare him to ashes. He stifled a laugh. He knew the captain and the sergeant but not personally. He knew them because Mandisa had worked with them once on a case - the PI had told him- and she had been so tough on them that they hated her guts. Him mentioning those two names was sure to make her think she was dealing with someone powerful that her. He was right. Mandisa dropped the phone on the couch opposite him and said.