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.

made him the third majority shareholder in the company, as well as a member of the board,” Aiden cannot contain his gloating grin, “Remember what I said, about the dangers of letting me go, Coraline? How I

you for that. And crush your little cockroach with you.”

you can do that?” I inquire, partly awestruck at his sheer arrogance. One would think he was the one who bought the shares,

here anyways, cockroach? Are you her

a jab at me, but not at Coraline, “Shut your whore mouth,” I growl at him, and a flicker of surprise flashes through his face. “Try to act a bit civilized. Coraline is here for an interview for which she was formally invited to. You can’t do anything to stop her from participating in the

“Well, let’s see about that. I give you one

to make,” I inform him.

time almost murderously. “Yeah, but

out his phone from his

are you doing? It’s Aiden. Listen, we got a problem at the main entrance

need to punch him in the face had never been higher, and I believe I should be given some sort of an award for reigning myself

like that very much, no,

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

‘we’, isn’t

a middle-aged man, looking like a hurricane personified. Aiden cuts his call, his

the hell is happening here?” the man

Aiden points at Coraline, who is now beet red from

manager of this prestigious. company, and I don’t have time for

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