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? How I

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

awestruck at his sheer arrogance. One would think

switches to me, and an expression of disgust overwhelms his face, “The fuck are you here anyways, cockroach? Are you her new emotional support buddy? Lapping after my leftover like the

ignore 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

I? Can’t I, cockroach?” That word is starting to get on my nerves really fast. “Well, let’s see about that. I give you one chance to hightail out of here with dignity. No way in hell will I

decision to make,” I

murderously. “Yeah,

phone from his pocket and rings

Listen, we got a

believe I should be given some sort

that very much, no, what with me being his only

in the company, considering how new we are.” Aiden goes on to say, and I

‘we’, isn’t it?

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

hell is happening here?”

is the girl,” Aiden points at Coraline, who is now

I don’t have time for snotwads like you to waste my day with nonsense. Get the hell out

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