Chapter Three
1055 Words
EMILY'S POV
I ran from the office, crying my eyes out in the bathroom.
I had just walked into the most hurtful sight. Sebastine had a woman on his office desk and they were both so engrossed in making out, neither of them cared about my presence.
Sebastine had lifted his eyes and taken note of me, but it didn't matter.
I could feel my heart breaking into a million pieces.
‘What have I done to deserve this punishment?’ I thought. ‘If only I was granted the resignation, I wouldn't have had any reason to go through this torture.’
I cried for minutes unending and when I had developed a headache, I decided I was going to go back home. I had had enough for the day.
I washed my face and waited for my Blood-shot eyes to clear out. I met a crowd walking down the hall to the reception.
“The boss demands all our presence at the reception,” one of the staff was kind enough to tell me.
I gulped in a large amount of saliva. Sebastine’s mother was regarded as ‘the boss’ and she was more ruthless than Sebastine was.
I waited until the crowd was all gone and then followed minutes later.
As soon as the elevator door opened, I was ushered into a decorated hallway.
“It's been years, and all I can think about is making this even more perfect and permanent,” Sebastine said, “would you be my forever?” He ended with a question.
“Say yes! Say yes!” The crowd went wild, all wearing broad smiles.
“Of course, you know I will.” She responded, and the crowd erupted in loud cheers and clapping.
I stared for a while, and then took to my heels, preventing the crowd from seeing the tears that were welled in my eyes.
I flagged down a cab and hurried home, not caring that it was still four hours before the close of the day.
Before anyone could see me, I snuck into my bedroom, which had just the privacy I needed to cry myself out.
While I was terribly sobbing, my phone came buzzing, and it turned out to be the most unexpected caller- Sebastine.
‘What did he want?’ I thought, ignoring his call thereafter.
The calls persisted and the buzzing became really hard to ignore.
“What?” I picked up and yelled aggressively.
“What do you want from me? Haven't you humiliated me enough? Do you want to humiliate me some more?” I yelled, amidst my tears.
Sebastine on the other end of the call was speechless for a second.
“Whatever it is you feel like, put yourself together before tomorrow morning, and be at the airport by 8am.”
“We have a flight leaving for Italy at 9am.” Sebastine said.
“Yes sir,” I responded timidly.
I really could not stop embarrassing myself with Sebastine.
‘How was he even able to maintain a very formal relationship, after what happened between us? How could he be so casual about it?’
I cried myself to sleep. Slowly but surely, I was wearing out.
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“Good morning sir,” I greeted, as he alighted his vehicle at the airport.
“It's a good thing you're not late,” he said, not even responding to my pleasantries.
‘How could I be late?’ I slept very early and was up since 2am.
“Grab my bag,” I heard an order from the other side of the car and lifted my eyes, only to find Sebastine’s fiance.
‘Chloe,’ her customized suitcase read.
I hurriedly grabbed it and ran to meet Sebastine, since Chloe was still walking slowly.
“I assumed we would be on a business trip, Sir,” I said, “why is she here?” I queried.
“You don't get to define what is and is not business to me, Miss Hayes,” Sebastine fired at me.
“Besides, your bills are getting paid, just like hers are, and it's not coming from your paycheck, so…”
I bowed my head.
“I apologize for crossing my boundaries, Sir,” I responded weakly.
“Good! Stick to the job you're paid for.” He said, walking past me.
I stopped walking, too embarrassed to be that close to him.
“Jack up your pace, silly,” Chloe said, hitting my shoulder lightly, as she walked past me.
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AT THE HOTEL, ITALY;
I didn't get to share the luxurious suite, like I did the last time, as Chloe would not hear that Sebastine gives a mere assistant that amount of luxury.
I was three floors away from them in one of the regular rooms, while they were way up. This was a bit relieving for me, as I could imagine their total absence.
“Hello Sir,” I responded to my buzzing phone.
“I believe you're settled in,” Sebastine said.
“Why do you care?” I heard Chloe's voice in the background, followed by her smacking lips on his.
“I don't,” he responded to her, not to my surprise.
“You know what to do,” he said, “get all I'll need ready, and I'll see you in the morning.” he said to me.
The call ended very abruptly, before I got the chance to respond.
I took a deep breath and fell into bed, but only temporarily.
After a brief rest, I got straight to work. As I was going through every single detail, and putting files together, I came across something pretty disturbing.
I hurriedly picked up my phone to call Sebastine, but there was no response from him.
I called again, and this time, he responded.
“Argh! Sebastine! Take me honey!” I listened to Chloe's groaning over the phone.
Tears were welled in my eyes. I couldn't decide if this was an honest mistake, or a deliberate action to hurt me.
Her moaning grew louder and I could now hear Sebastine's own struggle to breath, as he pounced on her.
I hung up, and slowly sat on the bed, letting my tears flow.
I was sick and tired of this, and I only had one thing to do…
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