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!"

stiffened at the

thought that Ashley would call him that.

temper every time someone called him that. But strangely enough,

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

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

quit? Did anyone bully you there?"

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

weren't bullied. We were just tired of staying there. We thought that after resigning, we could do what we really enjoy doing and never have to

Greyson

out what you

of finding the right place to start

The memory of what had happened while

Lena? Why does she have to go against

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

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

Ashley and Ellie had different plans. They had

something was fishy from Ellie's tone.

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

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

wasn't stupid. Ashley's gestures were enough to make

Greyson looked at Ashley.

We can handle it ourselves. Didn't you say that you were

Ellie's

Ellie echoed rather

involved. It would be better to keep it from him, for his own sake. 'After

He could remove the Luos from J City

eat spicy food?" Ashley turned to Greyson and asked.

nodded in response.

go have hot pot!" Ashley said excitedly.