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24 Am I Crazy? (Winona)

I'm speechless. I stare at Jayden and sit down in the chair opposite him. What does this really all mean? Apart from the wish thing, which is stupid anyway, I do need to be able to get along with him from a business perspective.

There will be times we need to be out together. Maybe it is better to rip the sticking plaster off quickly and get it over with

As if he reads my mind. "A business date. That's all. Honestly, we can't always be in the office. It's just one date"

I can't help remembering the first time he asked me out.

It's junior year of high school. I watch the two fools passing notes in a math exam and one drops, floating over to land closer to my desk than to theirs. It's not that they were not brainy enough, they were just too lazy to bother focusing. Of course they had money to fall back on.

And the math teacher, commonly known amongst the students as Old Man Bulldog, is someone who doesn't tolerate this kind of behavior, no matter how much money your family has. I see he's turned around and spotted the paper on the floor.

Automatically and god knows why, I pick up the note as he advances.

"Winona? What is that?"

"Sorry, Mr. Brown. Honest mistake. I had flash cards before class, and one must have stayed in my pocket."

me cautiously. I smile

future, be more careful. Anyone else and I'd throw out of class. But you are the last person who needs to cheat. Probably more on one flash card of yours

I won't be so careless

how I attracted the attention of the richest

him outside of class before. He'd say hi and I'd just mumble and keep walking. I've seen the movies, I know someone like him showing someone like me attention is going to end badly.

and his constant stalking" became almost a comfort for

for the

"... Okay."

problem, I'll ask you tomorrow. No... wait. Did you

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24 Am I Crazy?

all his friends. I guess he really doesn't care what anyone thinks. But

here he is sitting across from me with no clue about the history we'd built together. Yet I have the same dilemma, him asking me to go out with him and me being reluctant. "Earth to

lot to consider. I'm trying my hardest to move on and let you do the same,"

together for business from time to time. May as well get it over with." There he goes again, being

he ever really understood how our backgrounds made it so difficult. We quarreled a lot over those differences. But that

think he ever had empathy for why I felt the way I did about us. guess that would have

short.

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