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.

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 would ruin your

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

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

fuck are you here anyways, cockroach? Are you her new emotional support buddy? Lapping after my leftover like the dog you are. Tell 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

“Well, let’s see about that. I give you one chance to hightail out

not your decision to make,” I inform him.

time almost murderously. “Yeah, but I know

phone from his pocket

doing? It’s Aiden. Listen, we got a problem at the main entrance Some bitch is here,

never been higher, and I believe I should be given some sort of an award for reigning myself in.

I don’t think my dad would like that very much, no, what with me being his only son.

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

it’s ‘we’,

of the main entrance open, and out trots a middle-aged man, looking like a hurricane personified. Aiden cuts his call,

hell is happening here?” the

the girl,” Aiden points at

have time for snotwads like you to waste my day with nonsense. Get the hell out of here before I call security to

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