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Lexi, since when are you scared to face a monster? You are an Ellis! We don’t cower. We face the fear head-on.
But just the thought of facing Landon right now makes my knees bend and fall to the ground.
Maybe I’ll stay quiet for today, hiding away and making him - and myself - forget about yesterday.
Yes, that’s a great plan.
***
Not a great plan.
Not at all! Because every minute I don’t see him, something happens inside me, like a tiny crack splinting further and further down. And the whole dam breaks apart when I see her walking up to his office.
Lacy.
She is one of his girls, and not seeing them around for two weeks made me think—naively—that Landon is changing. That somehow, he wants to be better for me.
You are so stupid on top of messed up and naïve, Lexi. Who the hell are you for him to change for you? He just wants to fuck me like everyone else, and Lacy being here drives that point home.
She doesn’t even stop by my desk to ask if he is free and if she can come in. Lacy simply opens his door like it’s her right to do so and walks in, locking it behind herself.
I think I should call 9-1-1 because my heart is about to stop. It’s pounding inside my chest with brutal force ripping me apart, making my whole body shake to the point that I’m assaulted with a headache from hell.
This is literally the worst reaction my body ever had to anything, including finding out I wasthe other woman.
Calm down, please calm down. He is nothing. He is not yours; therefore, you have no right to feel this way.
I need to leave, fuck the deal. I’m quitting. I will not be sitting here, listening to him having sex with other women after he kissed me like an animal yesterday. No. Not just an animal, my animal, my lion, my demon.
Except nothing about him is mine.
As soon as this one leaves, I will walk in and hand in my resignation.
Time to show that he messed with the wrong girl after all.
19
LANDON
Where is his file?
I need to fire that slimy, sleazy bastard Enzo. Walking out of my office and seeing him leaning over her, over my girl, made me snap, and my mind filled with darkness. I don’t even give a shit that he’s gay and has no interest in Lexi apart from being friendly. He shouldn’t be touching her, breathing the same air as her, or leaning over her. No one should.
Really?And why is that, Landon?
Because she ismine.
Except, she is not.
Kissing her once, sending her flowers and a box of sexy lingerie doesn’t make her yours, idiot.
Overreacting much? Yes. Irrational much? Yes.
And I still have no idea why I sent the lingerie. It might be because I got slightly drunk last night, and my intoxicated brain thought it would be a good idea. My dick too. Since I had to jerk off to the thought of Lexi in those provocative, slutty pieces.
I am still sitting here, looking for Enzo’s file, when my door swings open, and a beige stiletto comes through.
The first thought I have is Lexi is not wearing beige today, so who the hell dares to come in uninvited?
