Chapter 41: Hunter Is Sick

[katalina]

My body froze. Someone spoke behind me.

Not just an ordinary one. But it was my boss. Hunter.

His stares boring holes in my back.

I swallowed a lump in my throat.

“Amanda.”

One word. Just him, uttering my name.

It arouses and unlocked something inside me that I never felt in a long time.

A new feeling.

It makes me wish that the ground would open and swallow me alive.

Preston effortlessly looked at him.

I could see from my peripheral vision how Preston smirked. “Hello, Sir.”

That’s my cue to look at my boss.

Behind him was Ian. Smiling from ear to ear while eating a new batch of popcorn. “God, this is more interesting in real life than watching in cinemas!” he chortled.

Hunter didn’t glance at anyone else.

Nor does he have an interest to remove his stares from me.

“I brought you here for a reason,” Hunter’s jaw clenched.

My forehead began to sweat profusely.

I don’t need a mirror to see how the color of my face drained.

All of a sudden, Preston butted in. “It was me who insi