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“No.
There’s nothing to tell him about Ace.”
I cast a glance.
“I will talk to him about us.
I just hope he will still be my friend after everything is over.”
She squeezed my hand.
“He will, I’m sure.”
After a silence, she shifted and cleared her throat.
“So?”
I turned to her.
“So what?”
“Now that the issue of Warner is sorted, will you give Ace a chance?”
I shook my head in disbelief.
“You talked me into breaking up with Warner so that you can pair me up with Ace?
I can’t believe you!”
She rolled her eyes.
“Oh, please.
It’s not that you weren’t going to do that in the near future, anyway.
Especially now that Ace is here.”
I scowled at her.
“What?
I’m just helping my best friend with her love life dilemma.
You and I both know what your heart desires.
And I know, deep down, beside the fear of another heartbreak, you were stopping yourself from leaning towards Ace because of Warner.
You didn’t want to cheat on him.
But that’s sorted now, right?”
“Are you for real?
I’m not going to do anything with Ace.
And about Warner, I still haven’t broken up with him.
He’s still my boyfriend.”
Anger boiled in my chest.
I didn’t know why I was angry for.
For the fact that she supported Ace way too much or because her words screamed truth.
She waved her hand.
“He will be out of the picture soon.
It will be better for his own good, anyway.
Because assessing your Valencian’s obsession with you, I don’t think he would take this nicely if he has any competitor in the way of getting you.”
“You know what?
I’m leaving.
I’m not talking to you anymore about this.”
Red in the face, I got up and collected my purse and phone.
“Do whatever you want, girl.
We both know that Achilles Valencian has played his card.
And now, you’re stuck in his trap.
No matter what you want, you can’t escape him.
And you know why?”
I stared at her, waiting for her to finish.
“Because you don’t want to escape.
Your heart won’t let you.”
The elevator pinged,
opening for another person to reach their destined floor, leaving only me and Liza inside.
I held a bunch of files with one hand while my other hand was occupied with a cup of tea.
After the small talk with Cassie, her words didn’t let me sleep last night.
Some of my own realizations haunted me.
I was beginning to accept my fate, the change, and him around me again.
It didn’t scare me as it did the first couple of days.
And it scared me the most.
It’s just been no more than twenty days since I met him again, and I was already thinking about him more and more.
I was turning weak again.
Just like years ago…
No, Em.
Don’t go there.
You can’t fall weak this time.
Be strong, use your head.
Don’t let yourself fall into his trap.
You don’t know what happened seven years ago.
Even if he knew about your feelings, you don’t know if he really had anything for you in his heart.
But that wasn’t possible.
If he felt something, then he wouldn’t do that with your sister.
But Tess said she didn’t love him…
Then why did they do it?
If there was nothing between them, then why?
Or there was?
Or it could be a moment of heat between them?
But do best friends do that?
I blew out a sigh.
It was all so confusing.
I didn’t know what to think anymore.
All my life I thought my sister betrayed me, but the truth was she didn’t.
Or she said she would never hurt me.
I wanted to ask Tobias about it.
The truth of what actually happened seven years ago.
But I didn’t know how to start this conversation with him.
Did he even know what happened that night?
“God, it’s not even noon and I’m already so tired!
The preparation for the meeting with Arabs is taking a toll on me,” Liza complained.
“What’s so important about this meeting, though?
I mean, the way everyone is taking it so seriously, it’s not usual.”
“It’s a very big deal the boss wants to crack with them.
He doesn’t want it to go to our rival company.
These chipmunks now started a new clothing line when they found out about our new business in this field.”
She shook her head.
“I tell you, these people can’t take any success from this company.”
Oh!
So that’s all the fuss about.
Then something caught my eye as we reached the last stop, forty-ninth floor.
It was a fifty-story building.
Then why were there only forty-nine buttons on the elevator panel?
“We’re here,” she announced once the doors opened.
“Wait, why are there only forty-nine buttons?
It’s a fiftieth-floor building, right?”
I asked, strolling out behind her.
She bobbed her head.
“Yes.
The boss’s penthouse is on the fiftieth floor, and no one can go there other than his closed ones.
So, the common elevator doesn’t have access there.
They go there by the VIP one.”
Her chit jutted towards the other elevator beside the ordinary one.
The golden one.
I knew it was for VIPs, but I didn’t know only this one had access to the fiftieth floor.
Once we were with the team that was working on the presentation for the meeting, we drowned our heads in the work to finish the final touches.
As Liza said, the boss, Caleb, didn’t want any deficiency with anything.
I didn’t know these people were that terrified of Caleb.
Even the words ‘the boss’ was enough to drain color from their faces.
“Phew, finally done.
How much time is left for the meeting?”
Matt, a guy from the management department, asked.
He was always paranoid about every little thing.
“Don’t worry, Matt.
There’s still one hour left,” Sierra said, checking her watch.
He huffed.
“The boss can arrive at any moment and demand a recheck himself.”
“Anyway, let me print those papers in the meantime,” I said, gathering the sheets.
“All right but be quick.
You know you and Matt are joining us in the meeting, right?”
Liza asked.
“Yeah, don’t worry.
It will only take five minutes,” I told her, getting up from my chair.
But my hand accidentally bumped with the tea mug I had put on the table and the cold content spilled on the surface, splashing half of it on my clothes.
“Shit!”
“Here!”
Liza passed me some tissue papers, but it was already ruined.
The stain marked my white blouse dark.
Damn!
Did I have to wear white today?
Cursing under my breath, I threw the tissues in the bin.
“Oh God, Boss will be here any moment now and then we will leave for the meeting.
You need to clean this up fast!”
Sierra was up to her feet.
“There’s no time to clean it.
Even your jeans have some stains.
You have to change your clothes.”
Liza eyed my appearance.
“But where would I find clothes at this moment?
I don’t have that much time to go home now.”
I bit my lip.
Her face lit up as she spoke.”Why don’t you go up to the penthouse?
Your sister had stayed there a couple of times.
I’m sure there are some clothes of hers in one of the rooms.”
“Penthouse?
But what if Cale—“
“The boss wouldn’t mind at all!
At least not for you.
Just go change your clothes.
We don’t have much time.”