“Please don’t hurt him.”
She stayed on her knees because it was the only possible choice for someone powerless like her.
“I’ll...I’ll d-do anything, just p-please don’t—”
Cyrus had grabbed her hair again, using it to force her to look up. “For old times’ sake then...”
Kyara was still in a daze when she rode the elevator back up to the seventieth floor. How strange...how so painfully strange and terribly terrifying to realize that one could date a man for three years and never know that person at all.
She tried to get her mind back at work, but it was just so, so hard, with Cyrus’s words playing over and over in her mind.
You come to me when I tell you. Do what I say. Doesn’t matter when or where. Or I go after your boss, and I’ll make it as ugly as I can. He’ll never be able to show his face in public again.
A part of her wanted to just go right up to Lyrius Havington and demand the truth.Are the rumors right? Does Cyrus’s father have something on you? Because otherwise, I’ve just turned myself into my ex-boyfriend’s slave for nothing.
She really, really wanted to ask, but at the same time...was there any point when logic only pointed to one direction? Everyone knew Lyrius was a billionaire. He could easily buy this company ten times over, but here he was, still a vice-president. Surely it could only mean the rumors were true?
“Kyara?”
Lara’s tone alone had Kyara stiffening, but when she looked up and saw the strained expression on the other woman’s face—
“It’s that bad?”
Lara took a deep breath. There was no way to soften the blow with this one, so—
“Mr. Havington has requested that you be moved to Accounting.”
She simply went ahead and delivered the killing blow in one swing.
“Effective immediately.”
Kyara could only stare at Lara.Accounting.Her boss—wait, no, her former boss now—
Lyrius Havington who was her former boss had transferred her to the worst place on earth, and that was Accounting, where her ex-boyfriend reigned as king.
“It can’t be that bad, right? You and Cyrus might have broken up, but surely you’re still friends?”
Kyara forced herself to nod and smile, seeing no point in telling Lara that what Lyrius Havington had condemned her to was beyond bad. He had as good as sent her to Hell, and Cyrus would make sure there was no escaping it.
Chapter 11
KYARA’S ABSENCE INthe office was inescapable. It was like a gaping sinkhole in his very existence, and the way Lara had been acting only made things worse.
“You can glare at me all you want—” Lyrius signed the bottom of the page without raising his head. “—but I’m not going to talk to you about what you want to talk about.”
“You already are.”
His lips tightened.
She was right, dammit.
Lara, one. Lyrius, nothing.
He turned the page.
“She was crying when she left.”
His jaw locked.
