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around but this time, they all notice us when
doors to the lift open again and we step into a mochaler part of the company. There are still a few people walking an wranive: They bow and greet has withinspect, their eyes lingering on me.
Suddenly, I see a woman coming out of the cafeteria with a fuming coffee mug recognize her at once thanks to her bright red hair and her seducing eyes: Carmen, She’s in a pretty creme–colored suit, the skirt barely reaching mid–thighs. Her legs are en display, standing ontop of sparkly, white high heels.
She’s just as surprised as
in see her again. She eyes me from head to toe before tuming to Ivan
“Eser you brought sour maid to work, Mr. Whitlock”
tvan ignores him completely. He bushes past bet and takes us inside an office. I tum a second before to check on Conmen and she clearly did not appreciate being innised like that.
“Yopdeuld be not her “Isay.
Traichackles. His office is humongous. It almost looks like an apartment. There’s his desk by the glass windows, a living–room area with a TVand a few shelves pled with books on the opposite wall, Lalso notice abaraist a coffee machine. Ivan takes nil his jacket and puts it over his chair before sitting. He instantly turns his compon
1 stand there hiar a statue, not knowing what to do with myset. Why did he have to hing me her? how I wanted to get out of the mansion but not like this. There’s not muchet a diffrornor Tant moved from one prison to the other
After awhile, I decide to walk around, rusting ow flagers over everything I find interesting like the abstract paintings on the wall and the decoration sitting around. Then, I fed meself standing behind Ivan’s chair. He’s analyzing a chart on his computer’s seteen, his eyebrows frowned in concentration
Slowly, I put both hands over his shoulders and start giving him a light massage, bean doesn’t act but can still feel in relaxing under my fingertips
‘s not going to respond
d but then he says
He has slightly. His silence is so prolonged that I start to believe he’s not gu
“It shows how the shares of the company have been doing in the past few days.”
“Okay_What does it show!
“A slight drop, unfortunately. With father’s death, many seems to believe that I’m not fit to nam the company after him.”
Now, Ivan is completely facing me. I see that he’s a little surprised. He was probably in need of that sweet word and didn’t have anyone to give it to him
“You’se pestertly capable of running this company. Isn’t that what you’ve been trained to do all your life?”
“Don’t let your doubts win. Prove to your partners that you can even make a better CEO than your father.”
the grabs my arms and drags me to sit on his lap. Now, our eyes are in the same line of vision.
“You really mean it, Catalina?” He whispers.
.master Whitlock….”
“Yeal I can see the potential in you, n
I convince myself that I’m just being nice to him because I’m hoping for a release. But is it really the truth, though? I don’t know why but my heart is making weird somersault intry chest now as Flook into the depth of Ivan’s eyes. There’s something else beneath the surface, something I’m not ready to admit yet.
“You’re quite something, Catalina “He says. “I thought you hated my guts. Why are you being so motivational right now?”
“Hating is a big word just don’t agree with your methods of operation. You’re too brutal with thing that could have been solved easily…”
“Are you reterning to the murder of your precious friend card?”
My throat tightens and my eyes fill with tears again
*What if I tell you that I didn’t kill tem?”
“I didn’t kill him. I just scared him enough to never dare come back into my mansion or think about taking you away again. I shot him in the arm but he still lives, 1 rould have killed lum, Beach Do you know why I didn’t?”
e, just when i was about to pull the trigger, something told me you wouldn’t like it. He was your friend, after all, I spaced his life for the second time beratend postand Inever did that for anybody else “
My mouth hangs open İvannethstand to wipe my team away.
ay ifsat you’re quite something Because rate about yes, eventhough I should unt
Wernich spread incang lower stomach. İvan closes in the distance between in and my eyes fall on his lips. I low he’s about to kiss me and I actually want it. Sa l stay there unmoved, motil he takes over my lips close my eyes and rejoice in the feeling of beling in the anus of this man that I’m supposed to hate but can’t help
