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“Because I’m worried about you,” she snaps. “You are a good man and you deserve to be happy.”
“What do you think would give me happiness?” I decide to indulge her.
“Pushing her away is definitely not the way,” she tells me and I scoff.
I grip the steering wheel. I want her so bad, yet I can’t have her.
CHAPTER15
BELLA
“I’m sorry. The things I said were uncalled for.I was just really angry and jealous.”
I stare at his retreating figure in shock. What the hell was that?! I suddenly yell in frustration. Jake is driving me crazy!
There is a knock at my door and Tristan comes in. “What happened?”
“I don’t know,” I whine. “One minute he is yelling at me in jealousy, next minute he is as docile as a puppy begging for forgiveness.” I gesticulate as I talk.
Tristan strokes his chin, thinking. “I have concluded that your boss is currently going through emotional confusion.”
I look at him, perplexed. “What is that supposed to mean?”
He smiles at me. “He is slowly realizing how he feels about you. He is going to confess his feelings soon. Give it time.”
I remember his words from the other night. “I don’t want him confessing feelings,” I growl. “I’d rather chew nails.”
He gives me an incredulous look. “I found you in this office, eyes bloodshot and looking like you’d lost something precious.”
“Don’t throw it in my face,” I snap at him and he raises an eyebrow. “I did lose something, my pride. Jake can go to hell for all I care.”
“Is that last statement a reassurance for you or for me?” I glare at him and he raises his hand in surrender.
“I’m going to tell him, just watch,” I tell Tristan and he gives me a patronizing smile, nodding. “I mean it. I don’t want him in my life anymore.”
Chalking it off as bumbling rubbish, I let Tristan lead me round the resort handing out the cups of coffee I brought to the employees. It’s my own silent way of appreciating them for their efforts and apologizing for my attitude yesterday.
With Jake outside the resort I am able to breathe freely. By the end of the day, I have worked myself into a better mood. But that doesn’t last long as Samantha knocks on my door when I am packing up to leave. She walks in holding a pack and proceeds to drop it on my table.
“It’s an appreciation package from the boss for a job well done. Quick, open it,” she gushes.
I give her a perplexed look but decide to indulge her.It’s just a chocolate cake, but what catches my attention is the little note sticking out of the cake.
I fuckedup
Let me make up for it with cake.
“Jake didn’t writethis note. It was you, wasn’t it?!”
She flushes, confirming my suspicion. “Well, be that as it may. I think it’s the thought that counts.”
I narrow my eyes at her. I thought she was smarter than this. She should know better than to support the devil, especially who is confused about his feelings.
“He got this himself though.” She drops a single flower that I hadn’t realized she was holding. “He picked it out himself.”
It’s the AfricanViolet. I am forced to smile at the thoughtfulness.
“Thank you,” I tell her, packing it up.
