This Time, I Will Get My Divorce, Mr

“You—”

Asher and his supporters grew so incensed at her words that their faces turned the color of beetroot, but they couldn’t retort against her. She was right; she might be the vice president now, but the fact remained that she was the largest shareholder of the company, and that meant she enjoyed privileges they did not. As unhappy as they were, they had neither the means nor standing to retaliate against her.

At the sight of the scowls on their faces, Sonia smirked and refrained from snorting in contempt. I can’t believe they’re still trying to pick a bone with me at this point. How petty. Stoically, she withdrew her gaze and glanced in the direction of Charles’ seat.

He had his head down, so she couldn’t quite see the look on his face, but she felt how distant he was all the same. She sighed quietly as she settled into her chair and announced, “Alright, let’s start the meeting.”

“Yes, ma’am,” the whole table chorused as everyone opened up the folder in front of them.

The meeting went on for two hours before it came to a conclusion. Asher and his supporters were the first to leave the room, but Sonia stayed unmoving in her seat. She didn’t keep her things or seem like she was about to rise to her feet and walk out of the room any time soon.

Instead, she leaned into her seat and rested her head against the back of her chair, staring at Charles.

Presently, Charles was keeping his things, and when he was done, he stood up to leave.

Seeing this, Sonia quickly called out, “Charles, wait.”

He stopped in his tracks and turned to look at her, his expression devoid of the warmth and humor she was used to seeing. He looked almost impassive as he asked flatly, “What is it?”

Sure enough, he was sticking to his promise and had dropped the term of endearment. In the past, he would have added ‘baby’ to that statement.

Sonia was composed as she rose from her seat and eyed him steadily. “How about you and I have a talk?”

“About what?” he asked, his gaze on her indifferent and distant.

watching the others who had yet to file out of the conference room; they were all ears, trying to pick up

her gaze, they looked down at their shoes guiltily and hurried out the doors. Soon, the large conference room

her eyes on him and said matter-of-factly, “About how you’re

really was still holding a grudge against her for their dispute

to the fact that he knew she would never choose him as

taken was Toby’s unhappy remark for Sonia to come up to Charles and ask him to drop the nickname he had been calling her all this

I supposed to just

look on Charles’ face, Sonia sighed wearily and said, “I’m sorry, Charles. I know I should have been more considerate of your feelings instead of springing

decade, and she was the one thing on

out anyway, much to his

last night, I figured it out. Why else would you have reacted the way you did? This brings me back to why I said I did the right thing, because I don’t like you the same way, and I can’t ever reciprocate your feelings for me. What I’ve done, at best, was to make you give up hope that we might ever stand a

“No, I won’t—”

pleading for him to see her point. “I don’t know when you started having feelings for me, but I reckon it’s been a long time. That just goes to show that you’re sentimental enough to hold on to the idea of us, and if that were to go on, then you’d fall too deep to save yourself from inevitable heartbreak. I don’t want to see you end up that way, Charles. You’re my best friend, and the last thing I want to do is to hurt you, so please just let go of your feelings for me, even

them would never work out as a couple. She hoped she had put that point out

to drop all those

I’m not warning you. I wouldn’t do that to you. I’m merely trying to make you see my point here. I don’t love you more than just a friend, so romance is definitely off

of his fantasy and let things go. She

how death by a thousand cuts felt like. Her words stabbed through his heart mercilessly; they took all the air from his

meant. I just like us better when we’re friends without all these other

looked down and chuckled bitterly. “I get it now. You just want us to be friends and nothing more, so you’re

she confirmed