In a Love Nest with the Aloof CEO

“Yeah, I had some spaghetti,” she lied.

Tobias tightened his grip on her wrist slightly. “Join me for lunch. I’m starving, and it feels lonely eating all by myself.”

Skylar didn’t believe him one bit.

“Don’t lie to me! I saw you come here with a bunch of people, so how could you possibly be lonely? Anyway, I have to go. My mom is still waiting for me to bring her lunch, and she hasn’t eaten anything since morning.”

The Cardiology Department and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Department were on different floors, so Tobias could only follow her as far as the elevator.

“How’s your mom doing?” Skylar asked while waiting for the elevator.

“She’s alright. We haven’t decided on whether she’ll be getting a coronary bypass or a heart transplant. The problem with the latter is that it’ll take time to find a donor…” Tobias was clearly fatigued and stressed out when he said that.

Skylar gave him a pat on the shoulder and reassured him in her most mature-sounding voice possible, “Everything will be alright.”

in the moment that she didn’t even realize the elevator arriving. Noticing that, Tobias decided to keep quiet about

it, the elevator was already

food over from her and began walking

no choice but to follow him

only handed the food back to her when they arrived on the seventh floor. “Go home earlier tonight,

far the most heartwarming thing she

so, she couldn’t do as he said as Miranda had a blood test scheduled very early the next morning, so she had to

him everything, including the part about Miranda

decisions for her, Tobias simply nodded and said, “Well, I won’t say any further since you’ve already made up your mind. Still, will

each other

got on her tiptoes and gave him a quick peck on the lips, which obviously

the side and kissing her passionately, only stopping when they were interrupted by the sound

on the tongue as he pulled

was his assistant,