Chapter 46 - Going out part 2

Ashley POV

“I said fucking no one,” he replies, walking away from me. I see him walking through a set of double doors. I know better than to stay behind, so I follow him. He is in his office with his head between his hands.

“Theo, what is going on?” I ask as I walk to him. He raises his head, looking me in the eyes. I have never seen him like this. Theo is the coolest person I have ever met. I have never seen him lose his shit like that. I don’t know how he is at work, but in his personal life, he is carefree and bubbly. He is funny and gentle. I have never seen him so destroyed in my life.

Theo passes a hand through his beard, and his eyes meet mine. I don’t know what to say or what to do. He looks so sad… He stands up, filling up his glass with an amber content from the small bar in the room's corner. He empties his glass straight away, and I raise both my eyebrows, looking at him as I sit on the chair on the other side of his desk.

“She is the bane of my existence,” he says, a