"I'm just here to collect my stuff and then I'm going" Samantha declared.
"You won't leave me!" Marc said confidently.
"Watch me!" she went into their house and pulled all of her stuff that she could find into boxes. She was going to go back to her house that they were planning to sell. She was glad that she still owned it, she was going to need it. Marc followed her around the house mockingly as she gathered her stuff.
"You can have this back as well!" she said, taking her engagement ring off of her finger and handing it to him. His smirk faded. She really meant it this time.
"You'll come crawling back!" He shouted after her as Zain drove her away.
"Right I think I should get back to work now. I'm already half an hour late" Sam said as they got to her house.
"What kind of example are you setting when the DI turns up half an hour late for work?" Zain smirked.
"Very funny! Listen thank you for last night. It was fun, we should do it again before you leave"
"Definitely!"
"I'll call you later and maybe we could do something tonight?" He nodded.
Nobody noticed her as she slipped into work. She quickly went to her office and dumped her coat and then went to talk to Jo.
"Where were you last night? I called you but Marc said that you'd left and you had your phone turned off"
"I've left him!" Jo nearly choked on her coffee. Samantha explained what had happened the previous night as Jo recovered.
"So where did you go last night!"
"Er I er stayed with Zain but I've gone back to my house now."
"You stayed with Zain? Isn't he staying in a hotel at the moment?"
"Er yeah" Sam knew what Jo was implying as she smirked.
"So did anything happen?"
"Like what?"
"You know what I mean. Don't act all innocent Samantha!"
"Nothing happened, well nothing like that anyway."
"I bet he's happy now!"
"Who?"
"Zain!"
"Why would he be happy?"
"Er well Zain just mentioned that he didn't er really like Marc!" Jo stuttered, knowing she shouldn't have said anything.
"That's not what you were gonna say was it?"
"Well isn't it obvious?"
"Isn't what obvious?"
"Zain fancies you!"
"No he doesn't." Samantha scoffed.
"Well if you believe that you must be blind!" Jo smirked walking away. Zain had made his feelings obvious when he had spent the whole evening staring at her the other night. But it didn't look like that Samantha had realised that yet. Oh well, Jo thought, she does now.
Samantha should have been checking reports but she was distracted. She couldn't belive what Jo had just told her. She wanted to believe it but she couldnt understand why he hadn't said anything or shown any affection last night. They had spent the night together but he had given no indication that he liked her in any other way then a colleague or friend.
"Hello Zain, it's Sam. Listen, do you fancy doing something tonight? Ok, I'll see you about 7."