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.

grin, “Remember what I said, about the dangers of letting me go, Coraline? How I would ruin your life?

going to destroy you

think you can do that?” I inquire, partly awestruck at his sheer arrogance. One

here anyways, cockroach? Are you her new emotional support buddy? Lapping after my leftover like the

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 interview.”

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

is not your decision to

“Yeah, but I know a man who

phone from his

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

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, what

someone like that in the company, considering how new we are.” Aiden goes on to say, and I can’t help but raise a

‘we’, isn’t

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

happening

points at Coraline, who is

I don’t have time for snotwads like you to waste my day

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