1. Look who it is!

“Well, well, well,” Aiden sneers, and I feel my fists clenching on either side of me, “look who it is.”

“Aiden,” Coraline breathes next to me, and in the next moment, moves behind me. I feel so damn protective of her that I move my body right in front of hers yet again, just like the night at the restaurant.

“Hello, Coraline,” his voice is anything but pleasant when he voices her name, “I see you’re still shagging the cockroach.”

“He’s ten times, no, a thousand times the man you are,” surprising me, Coraline growls, “What the fuck are you doing here, Aiden? Are you stalking me?”

“Is that what you think this is?” he demands.

“What else am I supposed to think? We broke up, Aiden, don’t you remember? I left. You’re the last person. I expected to see here.”

“Well, I could say the same,” a gloating smile takes over his mouth, “Do you know why I’m here, Coraline?”

“Clearly, we don’t,” I find myself saying, “which is why we asked in the first place.”

He ignores me, his attention on Caroline, his eyes predatory, “I’m here because my father bought millions of dollars’ worth of investments in this company.”

I feel my blood run cold.

a member of the board,” Aiden cannot contain his gloating grin, “Remember what I said, about the dangers of letting

you for

sheer arrogance. One would think he

anyways, cockroach? Are you her new emotional support buddy? Lapping after my

face. “Try to act a bit civilized. Coraline is here for an interview for which she

to get on my nerves really fast. “Well, let’s see about that. I give you one chance

to make,” I

“Yeah, but I know a man who can.”

his pocket and rings a certain number.

jovially, “how are you doing? It’s Aiden. Listen, we got a problem

I believe I should be given some sort of an award for reigning myself

like that very

want someone like that in the company, considering how new we are.” Aiden goes on to say,

it’s ‘we’, isn’t

out trots a middle-aged man, looking like a hurricane personified. Aiden cuts his call, his expression smug. Coraline shrinks into herself behind

the hell is happening here?” the man yells.

Crane, this is the girl,” Aiden points at Coraline, who is now beet red from embarrassment.

turns to us and screeches, “what is the meaning of this? I’m the manager of this prestigious. company, and I don’t have time

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