A Love Trap

Ashley was astonished at what Greyson had just said.

He was already 24 -

one year older than her!

But age had been kind to him and he looked younger than he actually was.

Ashley was silent, not wanting to say anything.

"Ellie, did I say something wrong? Ashley looks unhappy," Greyson asked Ellie, confused.

"Oh, it's nothing!" Ellie said. "She's just a little surprised by your age. Can you guess how old she is?"

"22 or 23?" Greyson said tentatively.

"Correct! She's 23. And you know how much girls are bothered by looking older. Ashley's one year younger than you are, but people think she's your older sister. Could she be more upset?" Ellie said, her face a picture of concern. But at the look on Greyson's face, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"I guess you could take Ashley to be your elder sister, only she's younger than you," Ellie joked, handing Ashley another cruel blow.

"Okay, shut up, Ellie!" Ashley rasped, glaring at Ellie.

"I'm sorry if that bothers you. I do look younger than my own age, so every time I go out and people see me, they think I am still a juvenile," Greyson said gloomily.

"It's okay. You look cute," Ashley said.

"Yeah, I know. I love the way I look," Greyson smiled.

Gazing at Greyson, Ashley became speechless again. He was cute, but so much cuter when he smiled.

"Where do you work?" he asked. And then as an afterthought, he said excitedly,"Maybe we work in the same company but we don't know that we do!"

"Ha ha, Little Greyson, you are so cute!"

at

never thought that Ashley would call

time someone called him that. But strangely enough, he

here, he would definitely have taken Greyson to task for bending the rules for Ashley. 'It would have been a hell of a fight,

at one of their

Did anyone bully you there?" Greyson asked,

Greyson had just done some superficial investigation about what had happened to Ashley and Ellie at the Luo

We thought that after resigning, we could do what we really enjoy doing and

Greyson nodded.

you figured out what

we have. It's just a matter of finding

said. The memory of what had happened while looking for

with Lena? Why does she have to go against Ashley and me?' Ellie thought to

the Luo Group. And now that they had finally left, she

Lena obviously did that on purpose and only wanted them to go back to her and grovel at her feet, begging her to go easy

They had decided

that something was fishy from Ellie's tone.

his eyes and asked,"What happened, Ellie? Why didn't you get the

all because of Le...?" Greyson's innocent face made Ellie want to spill everything for him. But Ashley raised a finger to her

gestures were enough to make her understand

looked

Didn't you say that you were hungry? Let's go have lunch. It's almost

Ellie's arm

before Ellie echoed rather

to get involved. It would be better to keep it from him, for his own sake. 'After all, he can't afford

know was that the Luo Group was no match for Greyson. He could remove the Luos from J City with just a word if he

food?" Ashley turned to Greyson and asked.

in

hot