1. Look who it is!

“Well, well, well,” Aiden sneers, and I feel my fists clenching on either side of me, “look who it is.”

“Aiden,” Coraline breathes next to me, and in the next moment, moves behind me. I feel so damn protective of her that I move my body right in front of hers yet again, just like the night at the restaurant.

“Hello, Coraline,” his voice is anything but pleasant when he voices her name, “I see you’re still shagging the cockroach.”

“He’s ten times, no, a thousand times the man you are,” surprising me, Coraline growls, “What the fuck are you doing here, Aiden? Are you stalking me?”

“Is that what you think this is?” he demands.

“What else am I supposed to think? We broke up, Aiden, don’t you remember? I left. You’re the last person. I expected to see here.”

“Well, I could say the same,” a gloating smile takes over his mouth, “Do you know why I’m here, Coraline?”

“Clearly, we don’t,” I find myself saying, “which is why we asked in the first place.”

He ignores me, his attention on Caroline, his eyes predatory, “I’m here because my father bought millions of dollars’ worth of investments in this company.”

I feel my blood run cold.

Aiden cannot contain his gloating grin, “Remember what I said, about the

to destroy you for that. And crush your

partly awestruck at his sheer arrogance. One would think he was the one who

overwhelms his face, “The fuck are you here anyways, cockroach? Are you her new emotional support buddy? Lapping after my leftover like the dog you are.

“Shut your whore mouth,” I growl at him, and a flicker of surprise flashes through his face. “Try to act a bit civilized.

nerves really fast. “Well, let’s see about that. I give you one chance

not your decision to

murderously. “Yeah, but I know a man who can.”

takes out his phone from his pocket

Aiden. Listen, we got a

had never been higher, and I believe I should be

like that very much, no, what

like that in the company, considering how new we are.” Aiden goes on to say, and I

‘we’,

trots a middle-aged man, looking like a hurricane personified. Aiden

hell is happening here?”

girl,” Aiden points at Coraline, who is now

the manager of this prestigious. company, and I don’t have time for snotwads like you to waste

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