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"Sorry, I did not get that," I corrected myself with another stiff smile.

"Friday night?" He quirked his brows. The emergency you had at the hospital. The girl... she looked quite unwell. How's she now?"

"Oh," I drawled, caught off guard. I looked away from his face. "Umm yeah," I cleared my throat. "She's uhh yeah..." I looked up at him with raised brows, "Clara's kid, right? She's very fine. Her kid's doing great. Thank you."

I finished blabbing and shut my mouth. I really wished the elevator would just throw me out. I could sense that he had more questions but the definite way with which I ended the conversation and trained my eyes ahead must have stopped him. And I was glad my tactic worked. The last thing I wanted was to have an inkling of whatever was running through his head and start to get unnecessarily worried. I had more than enough to worry about.

As long as I made it very clear that Amie was not mine, that should make him swallow whatever question and get rid of suspicions. Because men were the same. The moment he gets a whiff of Amie's relationship to me, he would not care that we had been apart for years, he would immediately start to dig and snoop around and before I know what was happening, we would be in court, fighting over the custody of my child. That was a phase I would never let my child go through, Never.

Wait a minute...

My brows furrowed into a frown. Reflexively, I looked up. The expression on Aiden's face was similar to mine as he glanced around the elevator,

Oh my God. How come I wad yet to reach my floor? It does not take more than a minute. In fact, it does not take up to a minute.

and my heart stopped.

No.

forward and I found my fingers jabbing erratically at the buttons before I started to hit it with

with this thing?" I said in

elevator is stuck

the elevator had never been faulty. Why did it have to decide not to work especially when I was in here

stuck. We just need to reset it with a light tap

controlled taps soon became uncontrollably as I started to hit it with my fist.

with him? No,

want to be stuck...

behind me. I heard his soft footsteps then he was standing right behind me. I felt the heat in his body as it emanated from every pore on

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a light lump down my

met. My head was flooded with the sounds of his beautiful laughter, the artful curve of his lips when he smiled.

used

and I began to slam

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