She paused in favonovel.com footsteps, feeling an ache in favonovel.com heart. There seemed to be a hint of grief in his tone…
Before favonovel.com whirlwind of emotions could settle, favonovel.com continued saying the next part of his sentence, “You made a mess out of my desk. You should at least clean it.”
She gritted favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com slammed his office door shut. He sat down on the chair that was still warm from favonovel.com bum, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. A part of the gloom in his heart had been relieved.
He thought favonovel.com had been hallucinating when favonovel.com ran into favonovel.com at the elevator and only realized that it was real when favonovel.com opened favonovel.com mouth to speak. He did not know how to face her. She was the only woman whom favonovel.com had not been able to forget. Not seeing favonovel.com was unbearable, but seeing favonovel.com was even more unbearable.
***
Tiffany discovered favonovel.com had tears in favonovel.com eyes when favonovel.com finally entered the car. She pulled out a tissue paper and wiped it all away. However, tears keep brimming in favonovel.com eyes, threatening to overflow down favonovel.com cheeks. She could not control favonovel.com emotions nor could favonovel.com control the tears from streaming down favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com could not bear thinking about favonovel.com getting close to another woman.
Her eyes were slightly red when favonovel.com returned to the office and handed the document back to Eric.
“Are you alright?” Eric asked tentatively, “Did Jackson make things difficult for you?”
She forced herself to smirk. “Hah! Him? No way. I can even guess the color of the underwear favonovel.com had chosen for the day. Why should I be afraid of favonovel.com troubling me? His cold exterior isn’t all that special.”
Eric’s lips twitched. “You’re really… Fine, fine, fine. Go back to work if you have nothing else to do.”
She turned around and returned to favonovel.com desk, staring blankly at favonovel.com computer screen. Her entire mind was filled with Jackson’s image and the way favonovel.com had treated favonovel.com so coldly back at his office…
Perhaps, that was the nature of humans. They could be close as peas in a pod when they were in a relationship, but once they had broken up, ties would be severed, and they would gradually return to being strangers. They would be… familiar strangers. Someone who was once yours but no longer had anything to do with you now.
Tanya walked over and asked tentatively, “Tiffany, if you’re… in a bad mood, how about we go drinking at the bar tonight after work?”
Tiffany waved favonovel.com hand. “I’ve given up on that. I don’t go to those kinds of places anymore. I’m getting older, it’s time to get serious. I can’t afford to fool around with my meager salary. A girl needs to eat. It’s fine, I’m in a good mood. Arianne invited me over to favonovel.com place for dinner. I’ll be staying over as well. Don’t worry about me. A pregnant lady’s dinner is always sumptuous. She gets fresh, air-flown ingredients every day. Mark’s certainly been behaving himself. He’s been pampering Ari like a queen. I’ll take a few extra pieces of meat while I’m at it. I’m single now so I don’t need to worry about getting fat.”
Tanya paused for a moment before favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com 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 favonovel.com not your type? That can’t be right… Eric is born and raised in the most proper way. I would have gone after favonovel.com 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?”
