Chapter 7 : Intensity

Emily

With humiliation, anger boils through my veins. I drop my gaze, swallowing the simmering gossip behind me. I have never thought Kane can stoop so low to do this just to hurt me. He gave me the pen drive with all my paperwork. There's no way such pictures can be in this.

When I lift my gaze, I find his eyes on me— steady and intense.

"Oh! I think there has been some malfunctioning with the projector," Mr Smith speaks out of nowhere. "The wedding pictures got messed up. I'm sorry, gentlemen"

He bows and smiles in front of the clients as the lights turn on. Mr Smith is definitely trying to cover up the mess created by us. I can still find the weird gazes sparkling at me. That's so fucking humiliating.

"Nova!" Mr Smith calls out. "Until we get the entire presentation fixed, why don't you show us the rough details about the costing"

"Yeah. Yeah, sure," Nova forces a smile and rushes out of the conference room.

"Gentlemen, should we check out the rough details of the costs first? My