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.

his gloating grin, “Remember what I said, about the dangers of letting me go, Coraline?

grin vanishes. “You left me. I’m going to destroy you

his sheer arrogance. One would think he was the one who bought the shares, not

are you here anyways, cockroach? Are you her new emotional support buddy?

to act a bit civilized. Coraline is here for an interview for which she was

really fast. “Well, let’s see about that. I

not your decision to make,” I inform him.

grins again, this time almost murderously. “Yeah, but I know

from his pocket and rings a certain

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

been higher, and I believe I should be given some sort of an award for reigning myself in.

would like that very much, no, what with me being his only son.

Aiden goes on to say, and I can’t help but raise a brow.

it’s ‘we’, isn’t

happening

is the girl,” Aiden points at Coraline,

screeches, “what is the meaning of this? I’m the manager of this prestigious. company, and I don’t have time for snotwads like you to waste my

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