Chapter 29- Welcome Dinner

Vera Anderson's POV

My mood was totally ruined after Margaret kissed Reid and I don't even know why I feel this way. All I know was that I'm not already in the mood. That woman was pissing me off and I don't like her. If she is really interested of Reid, then she is supposed not to do it here in META. She could have done it somewhere else.

" Miss Vera, are you okay?", Reid asked me, with his voice a little shaky.

"I'm fine sir, thank you", I responded, trying to sound natural.

There was a deafening silence for some time but I'm just waiting here whenever he wants to chat with me. I can see Reid was busy encoding something on the computer. But sometimes I caught him taking a glimpse at me as if there's something he wanted to say. I did not bother asking him, instead, I focused my eyes on my computer screen. I just let the sliding door open so that, I could easily hear whenever he is talking to me.

Then he stood up and came towards me. I slightly raised my head to meet his gaze.

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