My Wife Is A Secret Assassin

Chapter 85: Do You Like Chance?

Bill then ate the food and was surprised as it tasted amazing, "You cooked it?" He asked Chance as it didn't taste like Samantha's cooking.

"Yes sir"

"It is amazing dear; you can be a chef" Bill praised him.

"Thank you so much Sir. If you ever want, please come to my home, I'll make more dishes for you" Chance invited him again surprising Bill and Samantha but then they assumed he was a very friendly person and didn't read much into it.

The three people completed the lunch in peace, all this while Bill asked Chance many more questions about his education and life which Chance patiently answered.

On one side, Samantha was annoyed with their bonding but on the other hand, she couldn't help but be impressed at how respectful and polite Chance was with her father.

He had no idea Bill was her dad but yet instead of getting annoyed by his questions, Chance was patiently answering him is what she thought.

She did wondered why he was acting like this but she was happy as she wouldn't have tolerated it, if Chance was rude or arrogant towards Bill.

Honestly, Bill asked him so many questions that even Samantha was annoyed with her father but Chance didn't flinch or got irritated even for a second and kept smiling.

'I made a mistake accepting this challenge, I am sure going to fall head over heels for him' she helplessly thought and silently ate her food observing the two important men in her life happily conversing.

Unknown to her she had a faint smile on her face seeing them bond so well.

After having lunch with them, Bill bought a bouquet for his wife's tomb and happily left.

He kept the bouquet of roses on the tomb, "Sarah, today I met a young man who loves our daughter a lot. I think he loves her more than we do" Bill smiled recollecting Chance and his interaction with him.

"Also, he seems like a man with a lot of patience, I feel Samantha will be very happy with him. You would have loved him, Sarah. You remember how you were always worried about Sam because of her childhood trauma? I believe unlike we two, he will pull her out of it. We failed but he won't. Today my heart was full seeing them together. He will have a hard time with her but our daughter too likes him, after coming from Austin she was in a good mood and today I got to know it was because of him. Now you can rest in peace love" Bill updated his wife on the current ongoing events in his and Samantha's life.

After Bill left, Samantha scolded Chance, "What was that Chance?"

"What was what?"

"Why were you so friendly with him?"

"Isn't Mr Bill such a nice person? How can I not be friendly with him?"

"Yeah, but you met him for the first time and yet you were acting like you know him for years" 

Chance awkwardly smiled as in his excitement he didn't bother about it but he didn't regret his actions.

"Yeah, Samantha it was really weird but Mr Bill doesn't look like a stranger or like other normal customers, he rather feels very close as if he is family. For a moment, I even felt like he is your father" Chance teased her and wanted to see her reaction and just like he expected, she was nervous and rubbed her palms against each other.

'Fuck, how could he be on point?' Samantha wondered to herself.

"Also, you always get annoyed with me, why were you not annoyed when Mr Bill questioned you? Rather like a sincere daughter you were answering him." Chance continued his teasing and questioned her again.

Samantha was even more anxious and tried to hide it from Chance but he saw through her.

After a few seconds, she answered him, "Mr Bill, has been a regular customer so I developed a bond with him. He has no family and neither do I, so we meet each other at times when we need personal advice, we grew closer. I do see him like a father" Samantha couldn't find a better reply than this.

Chance was happy with her reply and he could see how much Bill means to her that she couldn't lie saying they are not related at all and strategically answered him, so he said, "Then from now on I'll treat Mr Bill like my father-in-law"

Samantha looked at him in frustration, "No need to do that." she clearly told him.

"Sorry, you can't decide that" Chance winked at her and packed the lunch dishes.

"I'll take my leave, bye" Not giving any chance to Samantha to talk further he left for his home in satisfaction as he felt like he had a productive lunch with her and her father.

After Chance left, Samantha immediately called Bill, she had to clear this misunderstanding at any cost.

Bill chuckled seeing her call, he answered his phone, "Yes?"

"Dad, today"

"Samantha, the purpose of this phone is to discuss important matters, you are only supposed to call me when it is something urgent, remember?" Bill joked with her as he had fun troubling his daughter.

"Dad, please, this is not the time to joke" 

Bill could sense her anger through the phone. He was grateful he was not around her or else she would have tortured him with an earful of scoldings.

"Fine, I won't joke" 

"Dad, don't take what happened earlier to heart, please forget it" Samantha hesitatingly requested him.

"Earlier? What earlier?" Bill was teasing her.

"Dad, please"

"I really like Chance. I have a feeling you will be very happy with him, you should definitely date him."

"Dad, are you kidding me? I met him around two months ago and I don't even know him very well"

"Yet, you were so happy after coming from Austin only because you met Chance there."

Samantha knew Bill would bring up this topic, she wanted to beat Chance up for not keeping his mouth shut.

"After what Grim Reaper did in Austin, I expected you to react exactly like how you did after coming from Chicago but you were all happy and fine, do you know what that means Samantha?" Bill was very serious so Samantha heard his question without interrupting him.

"Dad"

"It means the time you spent with Chance out beats the mission that was ruined by Grim Reaper."

"Dad, the target in Austin was not very important and the one in Chicago"

"Don't give me such lame excuses. Have you forgotten that I am your father and no one knows you better than me?"

Samantha kept quiet as her father was right.

"Samantha, I'll ask you something and I want you to be honest with me" Bill turned into a very serious father.

She didn't say anything.

"Samantha?" Bill called her in a stern voice and she responded, "Okay"

"Do you like Chance?" Bill could already sense it but he wanted to hear it from his daughter.

Samantha was silent as she didn't wish to answer him.

She can't lie to her father, so she has to tell him the truth but she was not comfortable acknowledging it in front of Bill.

"Imagine you are talking to Sarah and tell me, Do you like Chance?" Bill could understand she might have a problem sharing her feelings with him as she was always more close to Sarah.

They were more like friends than mother-daughter.

Samantha closed her eyes and imagined her mother, "Yes, I do" she honestly blurted out the words she was scared to say out loud.

Bill lightly smiled.

"Then what's the problem?"

Samantha continued to imagine Sarah, "I don't want him to end up like you" She shared her fear.

"Samantha?" Bill was surprised with her answer and she opened her eyes, there were a few drops of tears collected.

"Yes"

"Are you scared Chance would end up like Sarah?"

"Yes dad, did you ever imagine that Excalibur would find out about mom and kill her to have his revenge against you?"

Bill didn't say anything.

"I don't know who out there is a hidden enemy of mine and might harm the people close to me to have their revenge. What if that bastard Grim Reaper kill Chance to trouble me. He even knows how I look like now" She blurted out.

"Wait, what?" Bill was confused with this new revelation.

"Oh fuck, I forgot to mention it. When I went to Chicago at that time, I was not wearing those black clothes for some time and I had no idea Grim Reaper was in hiding and he saw my true self"

"And you are telling this to me now?" Bill scolded her.

"I am sorry dad, that day he teased me about it and then he talked about Excalibur so I totally forgot about this"

"Samantha, do you realize how dangerous this is for you? Now, he can find everything about you" Bill alerted her.