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“Can you hang on for the day?”

“I can hang on till next year,” she replied with a smile

“’Atta girl”

She left the office with a smile on her face, but there was a part of her that wanted to scream A part of her that wanted to run up to Justin and slap him until he came to his senses She wanted to shout at him, tell him she wasn’t difficult to love, that she already liked him too much to back out She told herself she wasn’t in love yet, or th of time she had known him made her conscious about it

There were ant, conceited, and though he treated women like royalty, there was just no warmth there, he almost had no sense of kindness Money and power, and o ruled his world There was no roo over someone ould never look at her the way she looked at him

How could he ignore her for five days? As soon as she got ho hoas It was past seven when she got hoht he would be home by then The minutes seeain It was getting e for her, but she sed her pride

If you want soht She was no h to keep guys away She had thought she had used her se, but he was cold and heartless It was the first ti her pride a little, actually

She had finished showering when she saw her phone blink She quickly grabbed it, alrip of her phone It was Justin She smiled

I’m fine

That was all he said He didn’t even bother to ask how she was doing She suddenly wanted revenge again He was doing this on purpose He was a frickin’ sadist Did she just think about the word frickin’, instead of a curse word? What was happening to her? She wasn’t cursing when an opportune time to curse was now

And he wasn’t even in the sa herself to say one curse word anyed that part of her, and she didn’t know if she was happy about it or not Cursing was part of her spontaneity, so mechanism

That’s great What are you up to tonight? she asked him

Sleep, probably

She stopped herself fro It was clear he wasn’t in a conversational mood She carelessly tossed her phone away Tomorrow, she would teach the kids at the center That could take her e notion that he would really end up liking her

She hated the feeling