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After the conversation she had with Red, Lizzie tried to avoid him. The intensity of her feelings for him overwhelmed her and scared her. She used to hate him for ruining her life, but not anymore. She was always attracted to him, but she refused to acknowledge his feelings until now. She was at least pleased to see that Red no longer flirted with Samar.
One evening, Samar Navabi came in her office and asked:
" I'm going to get a coffee, do you want one?"
" No, thank you!" replied Lizzie, trying to sound polite. It wasn't the first time when Samar attempted to befriend her.
" Look: I understand that you don't trust me, but that doesn't mean that you should avoid me! I think it's important to have a positive working relationship with all of my colleagues" declared Samar." It's not like we have to fight for the same man", she added, with a large smile on her face.
"Are you referring to Reddington? I will never fight for a man, much less for Reddington! If a man wants to be with me, then I wouldn't need to fight over him. If he wants to be with someone else then fine, I want someone who wants me. He has a choice me or someone else, if he chooses her then she can have him, he's not good enough for me anyway" said Lizzie, fearing that she had revealed too much information.
" I think you should know that I'm not interested in Reddington!" confessed Samar.
Lizzie's eyes were wide and she made several attempts to speak, but no words came out of her twitching lips. She never expected to hear that from Samar. After an awkward silence, she asked:
" You're not? But you encouraged his attention!"
" So what? That doesn't mean anything. We've flirted a little bit. Who could blame me? He is charismatic and he knows how to make a girl feel special. But I know that he doesn't really want me. He's just trying to make you jealous, and it looks like it's working. And I'm interested in someone else"
"Who? Ressler?"asked Lizzie, choosing to ignore Samar's comment about her being jealous, because it was totally true.
"Oh, no, he's not my type" chuckled Samar." Aram is the one who caught my attention. He is very special! I think he has a crush on me"
" Aram is a good friend of mine, if you break his heart I'm gonna make sure you'll regret it!"
" What kind of woman do you think I am? I'm not a horrible person, even though you seem to think the worst of me. I'm gonna tell you something about Reddington and me: he only flirted with me because he wanted to make you jealous."
" What? Are you serious? He was only trying to make me jealous?" repeated Lizzie, not quite believing it. Samar was a very beautiful woman, Red had no reason not to be attracted to her.
" It's the truth. I don't know how you did it, but it's obvious that he has feelings for you!" replied Samar.
" I still don't trust you, but I'm glad that we had this conversation! It was quite illuminating. Now, if you will excuse me, I need to find Reddington, he has some explaining to do " said Lizzie, and she left her office.
She was angry with herself because she wasn't supposed to feel jealous. But mostly she was angry with Red, because he loved to play with her emotions and feelings.
