Semua Bab From my Bully to CEO: Bab 11 - Bab 20

PAST SELENE’S POV:School had been suspiciously calm, considering it’d been a full day since my run-in with the boys in the cafeteria.Sure, the whispers around me were louder than ever but none of the guy had tried to approach me again. Hadn’t even looked at me with that malicious glint in their eyes in any of the classes we shared.And most of all, Maya Saeed had also avoided me like the plague. Like the entire little show she put of defending me in front of the boys was something I’d dreamed up. Once, my eyes had met hers from across the cafeteria and she wrinkled her nose, pure disdain etched into her face like I was the most disgusting thing she’d ever seen before looking away.I was not able to understand her real intentions for defending me that day but now that my brain wasn’t short-circuting with panic, I saw her act clearly for what is really was. A bitchy scheme to put more focus on me. To make the entire school realize I was someone worth toying with after all. Because if

PRESENTGRAYSON’S POV:“So?” Selene demanded the second she crossed the threshold of my office, arms folded over her chest so tightly like she wanted to weld them there forever.“Take a seat,” I said with every ounce of patience teenage Grayson would’ve burned through in a second.She rolled her eyes.“You’re wasting my time,” she said flatly.“Because you’ve got so many pressing matters to attend to?” I countered, closing the door.Her annoyance gave way to wariness as her warm eyes flicked towards the closed door.I almost told her a door wasn’t barrier enough for the things I wanted to do to her. Could never be enough. It was worthless either way. A door made no difference to me.I could see her in a crowd and still have the most inappropriate thoughts about her.I tried not to dwell on my thoughts as I crossed to the other side of the room and sat behind my desk. She was still standing in the center of the door, eyeing me like I might throw a dagger her way any second now.I rolle

PASTGRAYSON’S POV:Selene flinched, her body jerking as the ball whizzed right past her head and landed on the ground with a heavy thud.She spun around and her honey brown waves danced with her. Her eyes were narrowed into slits, her hands curling into fists at her side.Up until now, she tried to behave in front of the other guys. For a moment, I'd believe that she was just that. A fragile damsel whose first instinct was to run and hide. Nothing interesting.But then I cornered her in the library. It had happened so unintentionally. I was there just to return a book but Mrs Rodriguez wasn’t on the counter. I walked up the stairs when I heard her voice, very loudly telling someone to leave.I paused on the steps and considered my choices. But in the end, my father’s words in my head had won.But if I’m being honest, maybe I wanted to see who she really was when no one was watching. Without the mask she wore like a second skin and pretended no one could notice. When there wasn’t any

PRESENTSELENE’S POV:The nerves hit me out of nowhere, hard enough to knock my feet from under me.I was plotting this ever since he proposed that ridiculous deal—one date in exchange for his coordination.I knew there was no way in hell I was going to have a normal date with Grayson. He must’ve known that too. And then once I finalized how exactly I was going to humiliate him, I spent a week running through every detail. All the pros and the cons, any plot holes that I might’ve missed and every possible way of outmaneuvering every obstacle imaginable that he could possibly throw in my way.I was ready for this. Yet still, with every step closer to his car, my heart thumped a little faster. My skin prickled with awareness, every step heavy with second-guessing.And all the smug giddiness I’d been feeling about besting him melted into a puddle of something weaker, smaller. Maybe this wasn’t such a brilliant plan.Maybe I hadn’t thought this through as well as I’d believed.Or maybe,

PRESENTGRAYSON’S POV:My hand fell away from Selene’s face but I couldn’t stop the smile from crawling onto my face.“But you were upset,” I pointed out as my guards came out from the shadows, surrounding us from all sides.She scowled, still smiling prettily for the cameras. “I wasn’t upset. I just wanted you to follow me out.”I laughed as I slid an arm around her waist. The soft gasp that escaped her told me everything she didn’t want to admit. I pulled her flush against me, savoring the press of her body, the thud of her heart against mine.I caught her jaw between my fingers, tilting her chin up until she was forced to meet my eyes.Storms brewed in those eyes, wild and unguarded, and I leaned in just enough that, from the cameras’ angle, it would look like a kiss. But there were still inches between us. Inches that burned.“Liar,” I breathed, and I felt her shiver against me.“You’re very close,” she hissed, though her voice had gone husky and wasn’t as convincing as she wanted