LOGIN~ Loise ~He was close, far too close, and what was with that look in his eyes? My head screamed at me to push him away, but my body seemed to have completely betrayed me, because instead of creating some distance between us, I simply stood there, trapped against the door while my heart pounded wildly in my chest. I hated that I was feeling this way because I shouldn't be feeling anything toward an engaged man, especially not this strange heat spreading through my body simply because of the way he was staring at me, but the damn pregnancy hormones just wouldn't let me have any peace.“You're so crude!” I said, pushing against his chest as I tried to breathe normally, yet he didn't budge at all, continuing to stare down at me with an expression I couldn't quite fathom, as though he was trying to figure out exactly what was going through my mind.My breath hitched when his right hand slowly lifted and caught my chin, tilting my face upward until I was staring directly into those obsidia
~ Writer’s Point Of View ~Loise stared at the woman standing before her, her mind struggling to process what she was seeing, while the woman simply smiled at her as though there was nothing unusual about finding her outside a police station after spending the night behind bars.She was none other than Evelyn Morgan, Alex Morgan's mother.“Child, I got information from my source, and he said you were arrested,” Evelyn said, her voice filled with genuine concern as she studied Loise from head to toe, almost as though she were checking for injuries.She already knew who was behind it.Her source had told her enough for her to understand that Bella, her son's beloved fiancée, had somehow been involved, and Evelyn couldn't help the bitter feeling that settled in her chest because she'd spent nearly a decade disliking that girl, yet Alex had remained hell-bent on marrying her. Before Loise could even respond, Evelyn suddenly pulled her into a hug.Loise froze – The warmth of the older wom
~ Loise ~The nerve of this man to actually think I'd seduce his billionaire boss.I could still feel my blood boiling as I walked away from Andrew, because what exactly had I done to make him think I was trying to seduce Alex? Yes, Alex was handsome, annoyingly so, but that didn't mean I was interested in him, and certainly not enough to throw myself at a man who already had a fiancée.“I don't know what beef you have with me, Andrew, but I assure you that I can never fall for a man like your boss, and neither have I been trying to seduce him,” I harrumphed, turning on my heels before heading straight to my room.If I had been feeling guilty about getting Alex sick earlier, then right now, all that guilt had already flown out of the window, because there was no way I was going to sit around feeling bad after being accused of seducing someone else's fiancé.Once I got into my room, I tried to push the whole thing out of my mind and spent some time sketching, allowing myself to become
~ Loise ~ “You're not different from a child,” he said, shaking his head as he pulled away.I blinked at him, completely confused because, wasn't he about to kiss me? I mean, that's what usually happens in the movies, right? The protagonists would go on a dinner date, stare at the moon together, have some dramatic eye contact, and then, before you knew it, they would finally kiss under the beautiful night sky. So why had he pulled away?“You had sauce on your lip,” he explained, and I quickly realized what had just happened.Oh.The embarrassment hit me so fast that I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole.“Oh, uhm… thank you,” I mumbled, clearing my throat as I quickly turned around and rushed toward the car, desperately trying to escape the situation before I embarrassed myself any further. Unfortunately, apparently the universe wasn't done humiliating me. My foot caught against something, and I nearly stumbled forward, but before I could hit the ground, Alex's arm wrap
~ Loise ~I really couldn't understand this man. One minute he was a complete tyrant who seemed to enjoy making my life miserable, and the next, he'd do something so unexpectedly gentle that I would find myself wondering if there was actually a decent human being hiding somewhere beneath all that arrogance.I felt my heart skip a beat when he wiped my tears.“Is that why you're crying?” he asked, so gently that, for one ridiculous second, he sounded like my husband instead of the infuriating billionaire who had eaten my lunch.Darn it!I immediately slapped his hand away and wiped my tears myself, refusing to let him see how much that tiny gesture had affected me.“You better bring back my noodles, or I won't forgive you!” I warned, crossing my arms over my chest while glaring at him.He simply stared at me with that infuriating little smile, as though my anger was nothing more than an amusing show he had paid good money to watch. Before I could say anything else, the doorbell rang, d
~ Loise ~“What's so funny?” Bella pointed a finger at me, her eyes narrowing, before turning toward Alex.“Babe, what is she even doing in your room?”Alex calmly stared at her.“Loise is part of the company now, I was looking at her designs,” he said simply, and Bella's gaze immediately shifted back to me, slowly moving from my face to the papers on Alex's desk, and I knew exactly what that look meant because I had seen variations of it from people like her before – that silent question of what could someone like you possibly contribute?“How can you just hire anyone into your company, Alex?” she asked, her tone carrying disbelief, “does she even know what to do or how to work a job other than being a waitress?”I felt my fingers tighten slightly around the edge of the paper I was holding, because no matter how many times Bella looked down on me, hearing her reduce my worth still managed to sting, especially because she said it as though working as a waitress was something shameful.







