Trapped In His Office

"What were you doing at Grand Haneul last month huh?” Cassian asked, coming closer to me.

His voice was calm but terrifying.

I forced myself to speak. “I..I was visiting a friend”.

“What friend?” He asked.

“I don't …I can't remember his name”. I lied poorly.

He didn't believe me. He pushed away from the desk and walked closer and closer to me.

“I ask again, what were you doing in Haneul?”.

This time I told him that I was running away from someone that thought he owned me and that was the first time that I felt free.

“Free enough to sleep with a stranger?”

He asked.

I gasped. “So he knows”. I thought.

“Why do you care?” I blurted.

“I don't”. He said but the look in his eyes said otherwise.

“Sir, may I go now? I've answered your questions”.

“if that night meant nothing to you…stop looking like it ruined you”.

I felt like something had hit my chest, I didn't turn around because if I did, I would get more questions.

I opened the door and walked out breathing a sigh of relief.

I was scared that Cassian would find out about the twins. I was scared there was going to be trouble and I didn't want all of that.

Yura Han doesn't believe in coincidences. She believes in control.

Cassian Blackwood has not looked at her the same way in the past few weeks. No night calls. No unexpected calls. Just distance and worst of it all a cold one.

And it was because of a new girl, Elowen Hartwell. She just stood by the glass wall of her window pretending to be reading while observing Elowen.

Come to think of it, Cassian has never stopped in the hallway for anyone before and yet the previous afternoon, he stopped to talk to Elowen even after she had stained his clothes. That alone made Yura grow suspicious.

—---

By midday, my inbox was just overflowing with lots of emails of different tasks.

Most of the jobs were not even mine and they carried Yura Han's signature.

I felt like screaming because I was wearing out.

I just had to convince myself that it was a coincidence.

I bent to pick a file that had fallen and that was when I heard the door click shut.

I turned slowly and my eyes widened in shock.

Yura Han stood inside the room with me alone.

“Um…err…” I was at loss of what to say.

“Mmmh…Elowen right?” She said pleasantly with something that looked like a fake smile on her face.

I nodded stiffly.

“Come on, I don't bite”.

I just wondered what Yura was at this time.

She extended her hands for a handshake. I looked at her with eyes widened. I hesitated for a while before lending out my hands.

Her grip was too firm.

“You are very quiet…” She said walking around me.

“I…i..keep to myself”. I answered carefully but nervously.

“...And Cassian, does he make you nervous too?”

My heart skipped.

“What sort of question is that?” I thought and cried inside of me.

“...He's my boss”.

“ hahaha… is that what you think? She chuckled.

“ I hope you enjoy working here, Elowen. It would be a shame if you suddenly didn't”.

She said pleasantly but with a kind of tone I couldn't predict.

She brushed past me and left.

I felt like she was threatening me.

Yura knew something was wrong.

She just didn't know the exact thing.

—--

Across the building, Cassian sat in his office with his hands on his jaw.

Yura had become so clingy and made too many appearances.

“Urghhh….Yura. I wonder what she's up to”. He thought aloud.

She was always near Elowen. Always interfering and watching her and he didn't like it.

He stood and went close to the window with a glass of wine.

Thoughts of Elowen flooded in his head. The thought of Elowen in that room.

The way she trembled. The way she whispered his name. The way her eyes were filled with unshed tears when she walked out from the office.

She wasn't normal and she was lying about everything.

His phone buzzed.

The message was from his security lead.

“ Sir we found something”.

Cassian narrowed in curiosity as he adjusted himself more to read.

“About what?”

It took his security lead a few more minutes to reply to his text.

“Answer you goddamn fool!!”. He banged at his table.

He was too curious.

“About Elowen Hartwell”.

His chest tightened.

“What?”

Then the last message appeared on his screen and his blood ran ice cold.

“She checked into the hospital three weeks ago”.