From my Bully to CEO のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

PRESENTSELENE’S POV:I turned slowly. I hated the way his voice still had my knees going weak.Grayson had his eyes on me. So completely void of anything humane, I almost had the urge to do something stupid, like maybe slap him, to get rid of that emptiness in his blue eyes.But I held my ground and instead folded my arms over my chest, fixing him with my best glare.He didn’t look the least bit surprised on seeing me. Like I hadn’t been his biggest nightmare for those high school years as well. Like we hadn’t made each other’s lives a living hell.Of course, he didn’t. He must have done his due diligence before hiring me. Unlike me. He must have known I was going to show up today.And, with a sharp twist in my stomach, I realized something else. He must have also known I wouldn’t have bothered to do my research and that he was going to catch me off guard just by existing this close to me again.After all, he spent four years mocking me for this habit of mine. Of never digging deep e

PAST GRAYSON’S POV:The cafeteria was a whirlwind of sounds when I walked in. Laughter and yells and the occasional thuds of trays hitting the tables echoed around me, and I tried my best to ignore the chaos.I spotted my friends sitting at our usual table near the window, pushed a little farther away from the other tables. Josh had claimed it back in sophomore year, calling it “prime real estate” and insisting it gave off main character energy. We’d let him have that win. Arguing would’ve been pointless.Josh was mid-story, arms flailing around wildly like he was auditioning for a play. He was sitting with his feet up on the table. Nathan threw a grape at an unsuspecting freshman, and I watched as the boy flinched before scurrying away, eyes wide with fear that looked a little too exaggerated.And then there was Theo. He was leaning back in his chair, headphones slung around his neck, a lazy smirk on his face as he listened to Josh.He looked up when he felt me approach. He offered

PAST SELENE’S POV:“Selene Hale!” Josh Maddox sing-songed, his voice loud enough to attract the attention of the entire cafeteria.My face burned. I wanted to sink into the floor and never resurface again.Josh’s grin was so huge it looked like his face might split in two. “Finally, we meet.”My heart was beating so fast I couldn't hear anything else over the sound of it.I tried not to blink, keeping my face as impassive as possible.If they thought I was unaffected or maybe even boring, they'd probably leave me alone.Nathan dragged a chair from a nearby table with a screech loud enough to make me flinch. He spun it around and straddled it backwards, arms resting on the backrest“You were hard to catch, you know,” he said.A slew of responses settled on the tip of my tongue, all of them sharper than the next.I swallowed all of them down. Now was not the time to get clever. One wrong move, one misstep, and they’d never let it go. I needed to stay silent. Silence, right now, could b

PRESENTGRAYSON’S POV:I had not expected anyone to be home when I got back. That was mostly the case with my little apartment.It was a small two room apartment with silences almost as thick as my childhood home. This one, though, this home was one of my own making. These silences belonged entirely to me.Moulded in the exact image of the house I was raised with. The one I hated. But apparently not enough to not carry it along with me. It was pathetic, really—how easily the past bled into the present. How the things I hated most, the things I swore to leave behind followed me to every new city I tried to claim.Through years and across cities, the silence and the loneliness had clung to me like a second skin. Like a curse I couldn’t ever get rid of.“Theo?” I called out the moment I swung the main door open and saw the lights in the lounge on. “Josh?”“Just Theo!” Theo’s voice came from the guest room. More accurately, Theo and Josh’s room whenever they were in town. “In here.”I to

PASTGRAYSON’S POV:“Dude!” Nate exclaimed from the bed behind me, tossing his controller aside. It bounced twice before landing on the edge of the mattress.I couldn’t help the grin that spread across my face as I whirled around in my chair to face him.“You clearly cheated,” Nathan said with a roll of his eyes but his smirk gave him away.“Aww come on, Blanchard,” I drawled, stretching back in my chair. “Sore loser isn’t a good look on you.He snorted, opening his mouth to retort but the door was pushed open and both of us froze in our places.Nate, who was laying stomach down on the bed immediately sat up straight, legs tucked underneath him with the reflex of someone who'd been caught doing something illegal. “Hello, Mr Vexley!” He said quickly, voice too loud and cheerful like he was trying to fight the sudden chillness in the air with it.My dad completely ignored him and the chillness returned ten folds until I was drowning in it.Nathan’s gaze darted from the doorway to me, a