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.

thought that Ashley

being called 'Little Greyson' and lost his temper every time someone called him that. But strangely enough, he kind of liked it when Ashley used it

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

their small branch companies. We've quit now, though," Ashley

you quit? Did anyone bully you

done some superficial investigation about what had happened

We were just tired of staying there. We thought that after resigning, we could do what we really enjoy doing and never

Greyson nodded.

you figured out what you really want to

of

memory of what had happened while

Why does she have to go against Ashley and

tried so hard to make them leave the Luo Group. And

an available store every single time. 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 on

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

that something was fishy from Ellie's

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

spill everything for him. But Ashley raised a finger

stupid. Ashley's gestures were enough to make her understand and

looked

We can handle it ourselves. Didn't you say that you were hungry? Let's go have lunch. It's

Ellie's

breath before Ellie echoed

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

was that the Luo Group was no match for Greyson. He could

you eat spicy food?" Ashley turned to

nodded in response.

have hot