Despite what everyone told him, Alfendi always said he wasn't one to date. Ever since he entered the Yard and began working alongside her, everyone figured they had begun to date.
Sure, she was kind when she wanted to be, but it wasn't often around him.
In fact, the two of them were always arguing around each other. Over anything and sometimes nothing all that important. They would contradict each other so much, but sometimes it took seconds for them to get on the right track and suddenly work together to solve something.
"Alfendi!"
He laughed and fell back into his seat, holding his stomach from how much it hurt.
"It's not funny, you lunatic! Your mad rambles are getting us nowhere!" Hilda yelled, about to pop a blood vessel over how annoying her coworker was acting.
"Oh, you'd be wrong about that." He replied, his smug grin still present. "I haven't even veered off the path. I'm helping you for a reason, Hilda. Because you need me. My intelligence, ability to understand the criminal, all of it."
She hardly believed that. And she told him that too. Hilda could have so many people to work with on a daily basis, even Justin, but she was always stuck with this eccentric that was nothing like his father, a man she had only heard in rumors that always seemed too good to be true.
This was it. This man was the one people coupled her with. This madman.
What a joke.
Of course, Alfendi barely paid attention to those rumors, and even if it were true that Hilda secretly tolerated him more than she put out, it wasn't like he felt the same.
She could never have him, Alfendi. The smartest man to ever enter this failure of a police force had no time for romance.
Did Hilda even enjoy his presence? He loved the good laugh he got every time he fought with her over right and wrong.
"This group would be better off without you! A braggart that spouts out random information and cares more about himself than others!"
That made him cringe slightly. How odd. He didn't think he'd feel the slightest bit offended by that, yet it was like someone put a bullet in his chest.
Her sky blue eyes were like the hottest flames and almost intimidating. That was definitely not a look of love or adoration. Alfendi's deduction skills quickly made note of that.
Justin sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose. Two things here were a mystery to him; whether or not they'd finish this investigation, and if this was some unique form of love.