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The receptionist named Carly, who seems much nicer than the wench downstairs, politely phones through to his office, and when she hangs up, she says, “Please take a seat, Miss Shields. He won’t be too long.”
Take a seat?
Is she for fucking real?
I swallow my pride and do as she says.Remember why you’re here…
The asshole keeps me waiting for fifteen minutes. Just as I’m about to approach to ask her how long this is going to take, my heart drops to my stomach.
Oh, hell no.
My ex, Brian, steps out of one of the offices farther down the hall. He comes to halt when our eyes meet.What the fuck is he doing here?
I knew this was a bad omen. I stand and then scurry to the elevators. I can’t do this today.
“He won’t be too much longer…” Carly begins, but I frantically hit the elevator button like it’s done me some injustice.Just damn well open, asshole!
“Luna?” I hear him call.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuckity fuck.
He’s approaching… Is the fucking elevator jammed?
I mean, I’ve been wanting to have it out with him since I left him. But I never thought it would be like this. I had it all planned out in my head, but none of it included running into him at my most vulnerable…
“Fuck,” I mutter.
“Luna?” he says again as he stands a few feet away. “I thought that was you.”
I glance at him and instantly regret it.
He’s still as handsome as ever. Brown eyes. A perfect nose. Clean shaven. His suit is immaculate. Quite the ladies’ man…as I found out much later on, after my heart was already his.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” I blurt out.
I see Carly’s head snap up from her desk in shock.
I don’t give a shit. I swear like a sailor and I’m proud of it. This asshole is a cheater and a liar and he deserves the worst of my wrath.
“I work here,” he says, like it’s obvious.
“My father gave you a job?”
He blinks like there must be some confusion. “Yes.”
Oh. My. God.
Do not tell me that Brian is my father’s new fucking protégé or something. That would be just my luck. But he knows me and Brian broke up a year ago… He knows he cheated…
“I… I’ve tried reaching out to you…” he goes on when I’m frozen in place.
All the things I used to love about him now just look distorted. He’s too good looking. He has an arrogance to him that I never noticed before, but it’s plain as day now. I guess I really did have rose-tinted glasses.
I stare at him with a scowl. “Why?”
He glances over to Carly, who is pretending not to listen, and clears his throat. “Can we not do this here?”
“Why not?” I throw back, waving my arm at the reception desk. “You don’t want your colleagues to hear what a liar and a cheat you are? Or is it that you don’t want them to know that I caught you fucking one of my best friends when you were supposed to be at work…on my birthday, no less… Or the fact you moved her in, and when she outgrew her welcome, you kicked her out too…” A shudder goes through me at the memory of him cheating. Oh, what I’d pay to erase that from my mind.
