Troublesome Encounter

“Yes. What were you talking to Elizabeth about?” I demanded to know.

Ace looked at me before he smiled innocently at him.

“Work…” he replied casually without giving me any more details.

I hated how he was treating the situation as if nothing had happened. If I didn’t walk in on them or if I hadn’t been there, how far would they have taken it?

My thoughts and imagination were driving me crazy. Before I realized it, I had already fully assumed that there was something between the two of them.

“What work?” I asked as I stared boldly up into his face.

Ace looked at me with some surprise before his eyes narrowed at me.

“I can’t tell you that,” he replied calmly.

“What? You can’t tell me what ‘work’ you were discussing with her about?” I asked in pure disbelief.

It was just so ridiculous. Ace surely has to know that the more he evaded my questions, the more suspicious everything becomes. Why can’t he just come out and explain it directly to me?

If he would just do that, then perhaps I