She paused in her footsteps, feeling an ache in her heart. There seemed to be a hint of grief in his tone…
Before her whirlwind of emotions could settle, he continued saying the next part of his sentence, “You made a mess out of my desk. You should at least clean it.”
She gritted her teeth and walked out without turning back. “Assh*le! Do it yourself!”
The well-constructed cold expression on Jackson’s face crumbled as soon as she slammed his office door shut. He sat down on the chair that was still warm from her bum, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. A part of the gloom in his heart had been relieved.
He thought he had been hallucinating when he ran into her at the elevator and only realized that it was real when she opened her mouth to speak. He did not know how to face her. She was the only woman whom he had not been able to forget. Not seeing her was unbearable, but seeing her was even more unbearable.
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Tiffany discovered she had tears in her eyes when she finally entered the car. She pulled out a tissue paper and wiped it all away. However, tears keep brimming in her eyes, threatening to overflow down her cheeks. She could not control her emotions nor could she control the tears from streaming down her face. She should have known they could never return to being friends based on their personalities. They would not be able to smile and banter like they did in the past, and she could not bear thinking about him getting close to another woman.
Her eyes were slightly red when she returned to the office and handed the document back to Eric.
“Are you alright?” Eric asked tentatively, “Did Jackson make things difficult for you?”
Tanya paused for a moment before she changed the topic. “By the way… I’d like to move out and get a place of my own. My job and salary are more stable now, and I’ve been staying at Ricky’s for quite a long time. It’s kind of inconvenient for me to be staying alone with a man. Now that I have the financial chops, I don’t want to trouble him anymore. You stay pretty far away from the office, don’t you? Takes about two hours to and fro? How about we rent a place near the office? That way, you can save time, and you won’t have to leave the house so early every day.”
Tiffany had considered this problem before. It was not easy for her to continuously get up so early in the morning. She was, naturally, interested in Tanya’s suggestion. “Sure. That’s definitely possible. I’ll research the rooms later. It’ll save us a lot of money if we stay together. But now that you’ve mentioned it… You’ve been living together for quite a while, haven’t you had any thoughts? It’s been so long, and there’s still no progress. Is he not your type? That can’t be right… Eric is born and raised in the most proper way. I would have gone after him myself if I wasn’t nearly married to his best friend and afraid of awkwardness in the future.”
Tanya seemed shy. “Ricky and I are from two completely different worlds. None of us are inclined toward that kind of thing. We’re just good friends. Stop teasing me. Besides… I already have someone I like.”
Tiffany’s ears perked up at the first sign of gossip. “Who? Who? Who’s even more attractive than Eric Nathaniel? Do I know him?”
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