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.

Ashley

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

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

the Luo Group at one of their small branch companies. We've

Did anyone bully you there?" Greyson asked, genuinely curious.

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 at

of staying there. We thought that after resigning, we could do what we really enjoy doing and never have to answer to anyone. Does that make sense?" Ashley said, rather sheepishly.

Greyson nodded.

what

It's just a matter of finding the right place to start off,"

had happened while looking for

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

had tried so hard to make them leave the Luo Group. And now that they had finally left,

to rent an available store every single time. Lena obviously did that on purpose and only

had different plans. They had decided to never go back to

something was

guy that he was, he rolled his eyes and asked,"What happened, Ellie?

for him. But Ashley raised a finger to her lips and

were enough to

looked

at him,"It's nothing, Greyson. We can handle it ourselves. Didn't you say that you were hungry? Let's

pinched Ellie's arm surreptitiously.

was a sharp intake of breath before Ellie echoed rather too eagerly,"Yes! Yes, let's go have lunch

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

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

eat spicy food?" Ashley turned to Greyson

nodded in response.

go have hot pot!" Ashley said excitedly.