Aaron bolted upright from his seat. “What?! What happened?”

Xante was about to tell him Corinne had gotten into Jeremy’s car when she noticed how red and swollen Aaron’s face was. “What happened to your face?”

Aaron touched his burning cheek. “What else? I was slapped by a girl,” he said self-deprecatingly.

“Serves you right,” said Xante with disgust.

Aaron shrugged. “Well, aren’t you going to tell me what happened?”

“The boss ran into Jeremy downstairs, and he asked her to get into his car. I don’t know where they’re going now, and she’s not picking up my phone.”

“Why would Jeremy be downstairs?” asked Aaron quizzically.

just happened to be there. He told her to get in so they could end things

as she was the one who slapped him. She gave it her all in that slap, so much so that it caused the corner of Aaron’s mouth to

him. All he did was ask whether she would want to

don’t think there’s any need to worry. Annie is in the car with them too, right? Jeremy will never do anything to the boss while Annie is there.

at Aaron. “I know he won’t do anything to the boss at the time being, but do you think he’ll speak nicely to her? What if the boss gets so stressed that it induces an early labor?

so I don’t think she’s going to pick up

me the truth if I call her. Come on, I know you’re good at

I’ll call her, but you need to step out. I’ll give you an

before she left the office to give him some

the screen despondently. It was not that he could not put down his pride to call Annie, but she had blocked him in all the

first time a woman had the heart to block him wholly. He decided to leave Annie alone after getting slapped, but for the sake of Corinne, he did not have a choice but to bother Annie

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