"It's not good for Sara to work under me. How can you make such a decision?""Considering what happened between Sara and Crystal, I cannot risk having Sara anywhere near my wife. However, I also do not want to send her back to her father. So for now, it is best for her to work with you.""Landon, I understand that what happened between Sara and Crystal was not good, and I take responsibility for it. However, I cannot be around Sara when I am trying my best to move on from my feelings for her. My sole purpose of taking over my father's business was to distract myself from Sara and focus on my family and company.""Justin, I understand where you're coming from. Moving on from someone you have feelings for can be really hard. But I also believe that sometimes we need to confront our feelings head-on to truly move forward. I have a feeling that Sara may have feelings for you too, and maybe working together could help you both explore those feelings and see where they lead.""I completely
Crystal wasn't feeling too good these days, so she thought of booking an appointment with the doctor. She picked up her phone to do so when her phone buzzed with a message from an unknown number. She looked at it skeptically, but curiosity got the better of her. The message read, "Meet me at the café on the corner at 5 pm tonight. I have something important to discuss with you."Crystal pondered over the message, wondering who could be texting her from an unknown number. She decided to reply to the message, "Who is this?"A few moments later, the phone buzzed again. The reply read, "It's Sara. Please come to the café tonight. It's really important."Crystal's heart skipped a beat. She hesitated for a moment before replying to Sara's message. She wasn't sure if meeting with Sara was a good idea, given their history. But she also didn't want to ignore the message, considering that Sara was Landon's close friend.After a few moments of deliberation, Crystal decided to reply, "I'm sorry,
"My breath hitched in my throat as he turned around to face me. It was none other than my ex-boyfriend, with a smirk plastered onto his face. My breathing increased as I saw him after so long. Yes, I still had a space for him deep down. In all that time, I couldn't forget him. I was tremendously happy, and my heart had a past guilt in it. I missed him. There wasn't a single day that I didn't think of him. Every night before sleeping, I always remembered when we were together, and everything was going well until I left. "You're late," he said. I stared at him, not wanting to look anywhere else. "I... Landon... I'm sorry about what..." He raised his hand to stop me. "Of course, you are, but as I said, you're late. Also, it's ill-mannered to call your boss by his first name in this country, so I hope you'll be careful next time." He stood up and walked behind his chair. "I will take care, sir." I was relieved to see how he didn't want to talk about our past. "You're one of those emp
The next day, I spent an hour searching through the wardrobe, but in the end, I ended up looking like what he wanted me to look like.Sign..."Bring me the file on the construction of Java Textiles," he ordered me through the intercom while I was sitting in my office, searching through various files and trying to figure out how to organize them. I searched for the file and walked towards his office. Halfway there, I remembered I had to take off my overcoat. After taking it off, I entered his office, attempting to adjust the dress that hugged my curves tightly and revealed a large portion of my cleavage. His head snapped up, and he leisurely studied all my curves with a smirk on his face."This is the file you asked for," I placed it in front of him. He licked his lips as he took the file from my hands."Hmmm, this looks good," his eyes traveled all over me, lingering a little more on certain areas of interest. "Is there anything else, sir?" I asked, trying hard not to notice how he was
Suddenly he started to laugh , " got ya". He winked at me before continue. "I am just joking, you are new here so its fun to tease you anyway, Let me guess, he bought the company where you worked too? And now you have to work extra hard to save your job, while so many of your colleagues have already lost theirs?" "Kind of..." "That's predictable. It's his favorite hobby - buying smaller companies and making people unemployed. Too easy to guess. Anyways, I can't trust that receptionist of his anymore. Please give me your number. I'd like to confirm it with you next time I have a meeting. If there is a next time with him, that is." "My number? Uh, okay." I gave it to him. "And I should save it as...?" "Crystal." "Crystal. What a sweet name." "Should i help you with anything else..." "No need." He got up. "I'm as busy as Landon. Please tell him to keep his attitude in check. He might have lost his head because he accumulated so much wealth in such a short amount of time, but he h
Finally, it was Saturday night, and I wouldn't have to see him the next day. I decided to watch a movie and have a few cans of beer, any film to take my mind off things. Pride and Prejudice happened to be the one I chose. While I was watching the movie, my phone started ringing. "Hello," I answered, munching on popcorn and throwing the second can into the nearby trash can. Well, at least I tried to throw it in the trash can. Like everything else in my life, it didn't work. "Crystal?" "Yeah, sorry, I'm bad at recognizing the voices of people I don't know." "When we met the other day, I'm Mario." "Oh, Mr. Mario," I jumped up, as if he had actually appeared there in person. "You can call me only Mario, no need for formality." Okay, so what did he want? Please don't ask me out! "Uh... I have plans actually?" I hesitated. "What plans?" he asked. "Uh... doing... laundry?" He laughed. "Come on, say yes. I want to take you out." "I..." "I'll pick you up at three pm then. Take car
Things at the office never settled down, even after two months.He wanted to make me miserable, and I never complained about anything, which made him more and more frustrated because it wasn't going the way he wanted.That day I was getting his signatures for some papers when we heard a knock. And then this beautiful, gorgeous girl entered. She had long, wav
Next day I reached my office ten minutes earlier.But he didn't call for me for a good while. Some time around 11 am, when I was getting restless, troubled and thinking up of excuses to just barge into his office, he called for me.When I entered, he was busy with a call. He ended that immediately and asked me to take a seat. He stayed there, sitting calmly behind his desk for a while, twirling a pen in his fingers. Then he started after clearing his throat, still not looking at me."I... decided to get myself a place, so um... I dialled this agent and... uh... he already has a few places in mind. Would you... I mean, you have to come with me.""I have to?""Yes... ahem," He cleared his throat again "Because... um, in case... uh... I need something.""Okay" I suppressed a smile."Let's go."