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 the nickname.

that Ashley would

someone called him that. But strangely enough, he kind of liked it when Ashley used it on him.

definitely have taken Greyson to task for bending the rules for

Luo Group at one of their

Did anyone bully you there?" Greyson asked, genuinely

like Andrew, who had dug up all of Ashley's personal information. Greyson had just done some superficial investigation about what had happened to Ashley and Ellie

could do what we really enjoy doing and never have to answer

Greyson

what you

have. It's just a matter of finding the right place to

while looking for a good

Lena? Why does she have to go against Ashley and

the Luo Group. And now that they had finally

did that on purpose and only wanted them to go back to her and grovel at

and Ellie had different plans. They had

sensed that something was fishy from Ellie's

rolled his eyes

everything for him. But Ashley raised a finger

enough to make her understand and

Greyson looked

you say that you were hungry? Let's go have lunch. It's almost

Ellie's arm surreptitiously.

of breath before Ellie echoed rather too eagerly,"Yes! Yes, let's go have

get involved. It would be better to keep it from him, for his

match for Greyson. He could remove the Luos from J City with just a word if he wanted to.

do you eat spicy food?" Ashley turned to

nodded in

hot pot!" Ashley