Chapter 33

033 The Old Coaster

Scarlett’s POV

Who says bitching is lame and you should always take the high road?

I took the high road and all I got was humiliation, pain, and a late “thank you“. I didn’t want to bitch about it, but it surely felt great!

After the night where I lashed out at Sebastian, I have seen a new light in my life. My heart. doesn’t hurt every damn second for him, and I can finally focus on my own life with a fresh. view. I wasn’t ready to move on hen I signed the divorce papers, but I am now.

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I feel like I was given a new life.

I thought it would take long before I could get used to him being with Ava after the divorce, and I thought it would hurt until I could finally be numb.

Turns out, all I needed was to speak up and get it over with. Maybe this is the “closure” people talk about.

“Miss Scarlett?” The reception at the Dunn Corp’s headquarters comes to me with a flattering smile, “The CEO is ready to see you if you follow me, this way.”

to. Not that I would want to, but it’s one of the “lessons” Gabriel taught me with his

following her before taking a

on the day after that

where

decisive approval, and I was the one having doubts. I took a few days to go over

I NEED this.

the Dunn’s building stands in the city center, tall and boring, with the scene of a prudent scholar from the last century, unlike Sebastian’s information–age style building with

like the two very different

but to take a long, deep breath in front of her, checking my tight. blouse for wrinkles and my black skirt for hair or dust. First

The old Coaster

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a slight stomp on my high

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school, but we never spoke once. in school. The first and last words we exchanged actually happened after graduation. Well, not even “exchanged“. He said “Nice car” when I was about to

plays a huge role in my nervousness

answer, the receptionist leaves with a swift turn, and I twist the doorknob with a drumming heart, and open the door to a huge, bright

His office is just an expansion from the desk he used when he started his business with his “guys“. They eat right in

not Adrian. The Dunn Corp is the definition of old fashioned

to the city view. Though this piece of land is crowded with big money. his 50th–floor window still

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