Semua Bab THE CEOS’ SECRET BABY: Bab 1 - Bab 4

Ava Miller. I needed to get home before this storm broke. Standing inside the elevator, I impatiently tapped my foot against the cold metal floor, watching the red digital numbers slowly descend. 33... 32... 31... It was nearly midnight. My cleaning shift had gone on much longer than usual because the CEO had apparently fired an entire team earlier this afternoon. That left the maintenance crew with double the workload, scrubbing down offices and prepping them for whatever new employees were coming in next. Suddenly, the elevator gave a violent rattle. A metallic screech echoing through the shaft, and the overhead lights snapped completely out. “What was that?” I gulped, spinning around in the cramped, four-walled darkness, my eyes straining to search for any immediate danger. Then, the mechanism groaned, and the elevator began surging upward. 27... 28... 29... 30... 31... “No, no, no. Go down!” The crimson numbers were flying by now, ascending at an alarm

My ride back home felt almost unbearable. I watched the city pass in a blur through the taxi window as tried to hold back my tears. I couldn’t seem to rub this feeling of disgust off of me How could I? Why could I? I was a cheater. I had silently betrayed our marriage a few months before we renewed our vows. And with Serge Sterling. A man I knew and loathed with everything in me. Yet for some reason, some sickening reason, I knew deep in my heart that I wouldn’t forget everything we did. Even when I wasn’t supposed to. And I hated that reality. Signing, I cleaned the tears on my face. I couldn’t stop thinking about what I was going to tell Matthew. The storm couldn’t let me get back earlier? I got stuck in the elevator because power went out? “Ahh.” I groan for the umpeth time and the driver throws another look my way through the review mirror. “Sorry.” I mummer to him, slightly embarrassed Wrapping my hands around my self, I realised something was missing