When Liezel arrived at the office, she received a message from Sinclair telling her he was out for a meeting. She wanted to ask with which company this time. It wasn’t because she doubted him, but it was more like she wanted to know how much millions the meeting was going to bring in to the company. After all, Sinclair’s success is her success too. If he managed to close another important deal, he might ask her to go with him on a week-long vacation at someplace in the world that only rich people, like her boss, could afford―and someone like her could only dream of.
Annika beamed at Una from behind the counter when she stepped into Sanson Road Café that Saturday morning. She took a seat at a row of tables and not the one she and Liezel usually occupied. “What can I get you today? The usual?” Annika approached her table, a warm smile spread across her face. “No. I want a Tortellini pesto with few onions and extra tomatoes, a tuna melt, and a chicken Caesar wrap with extra parmesan cheese.” She returned the young waitress’s smile.“So this is where you usually eat.” She heard someone speak but didn’t bother checking where the voice cam
A visible stream of light cascaded through the curtains, waking Una from her dreamless sleep. Her eyes fluttered open. Sprawled across her bed in her pajamas, she huffed at how her hip and shoulder felt stiff from lying in the same position. When the images from last night flooded into her mind, she gasped. She rolled over and heaved. Her hands pressed to her suddenly warm cheeks, and she sat up straight. Her chest started to throb soun
Cursed be their anger, so fierce, and their fury, so cruel!Anger―Liam was never the guy who was prone to fights and was never the type of man who would openly express hostility to others. Ever since he could remember, he had always been calm, collected, and composed. Adam Collin, however, was an ex-US Army veteran who served the country for seven years and an all-around terrible person, bad-tempered, overly sensitive, and constantly winded up in fights. It was these qualities why Adam Collin was currently hanging
“I love Wednesdays…” Glen sniffed.That day was the same as any other day for everyone, except for Will. Over the past few days, he was beginning to realize, after the kiss, that he could never go back to the way things were between him and Una. He tried to clear off the tension he was feeling inside, but nothing worked, and Glen’s STD scare had gotten old and was no longer effective as he found himself
As soon as Una arrived from the university, she sat on the couch and stared at the blank TV screen, thinking. She didn’t think that there was ever a moment in her life where she felt more bemused than this. She tried to think back at the moment this confusion started.Was it the moment they played Ice Breaker and learned stuff about him she thought were interesting? Was it during their moment on the roof when she discovered they had a lot more in common than she could have imagined, or was it the moment when the
The first day since they agreed to be each other’s boyfriend and girlfriend had been uneventful, with nothing more exciting than Will and Una greeting and giving each other smiles before going on each of their days. In a way, the distance had been nice. It had given them time to think more about whether stepping their relationship up to a new level was a good thing or not. Una couldn't help but wonder what Will might be able to do for her other than the hot kiss they shared, and just the thought stirred her inside and made her almost weak in the knees.
It was finally the beginning of December, and the first signs of winter had become visible. While Boston was yet to see a single snowflake, the weather had already been cold. Much to Una’s dismay, she still had to suffer waking up to an icy morning for over a week to attend classes. She was thinking of not going back after the holidays—maybe do a gap year. Deciding on what she would want to major in had been nothing but frustrating to her. Perhaps a gap year could help her figure things out.
When the rain started to fall steadily from the sunless sky, tapping a metrical rhythm on Will’s car, Una wished she hadn’t said yes to him when he invited her to his office party. Another party, she frowned at the image of people laughing, talking and having a blast in front of her while she stood as the observer and as an outsider. But, having to take on the role of a girlfriend, it was one of her many responsibilities to show up to whatever her boyfriend had invited her to. Or at least that was what she understood when she read those articles she googled Responsibilities of a girlfriend in a relationship and How to be a good girlfriend? during her spare time.