The CEO'S Forgotten Promise
“Alex… what’s going on? You’ve been acting strange since the party.”
He sat down in the chair across from me, his hands clasped tightly in his lap. His usual easy smile was gone. Instead, he looked tormented, his shoulders slumped, his eyes filled with guilt.
“Someone is blackmailing me,” he said slowly, his voice barely above a whisper. “They’re forcing me to get close to you. To make you fall for me. To… hurt you. Badly.”
I felt the blood drain from my face. My hands started shaking as I gripped the edge of the desk. “What are you talking about?”