A Love Trap

Upon hearing Amaia's suggestion, Ashley heaved a heavy sigh. "Okay. Perhaps next time I'll introduce you to him. He's been swamped with work lately. So you'll have to wait."

Ashley's heart was racing.

She didn't know how Amaia would react if she knew her husband was Andrew.

Amaia agreed.

"Oh, by the way, why are you still here? Usually, you would have already left in a hurry by now. Is he going to be late to pick you up?"

Knowing now that Ashley was married, Amaia figured that it was her husband who would come to pick her up after work.

Ashley replied, "No, he has to finish some work tonight. He can't come and pick me up."

"Oh, I understand. Now I know why you're still here chatting with me," said Amaia.

Ashley held her arm and said, "All right, Amaia, let's go."

They walked out of the building. Right before Ashley said goodbye to Amaia, she saw a person whom she would prefer not to see for the rest of her life.

It was Raymond. He saw Ashley too.

Ashley was in a loose, casual white T-shirt and a pair of dark blue shorts. She had her hair pulled into a ponytail. Ashley looked young and pretty, like a college student.

It was hard for Raymond to move his eyes away from Ashley. He watched as she smiled and chatted with her friend.

The image in front of him reminded Raymond of the old times when he was with Ashley. When they used to study and hang out together, he would wait for Ashley to finish her class, and they would go on a date.

Raymond really missed those days. There was a flash of longing in his eyes. However, when he closed his eyes and opened them again, the expression in his eyes was gone.

Raymond walked straight to Ashley and called, "Ash..."

to go their separate ways because their houses were in opposite directions. Suddenly, a handsome gentleman showed

was very handsome. He always wore a smile. It

had with Amaia was gone. She gave Raymond

are you here?" she asked.

and replied, "I have

been looking for her. He went to the bakery first, but Ashley

from her, Ellie sneered at him

a while to finally find

was surprised to see her walking out of the Lu

she managed to get a position with

had a hard time getting an offer from

big deal for the CEO of the Lu Group to give a pretty girl a position in

went through his head. But Raymond didn't

glanced at Amaia again and hinted for her to leave

Ashley curiously, "Ash, who is he? Is he your...?" Amaia purposely stopped mid-sentence. But Ashley knew what

rubbed her forehead and wondered what was on

replied, "He's just

"Oh, okay."

disappointed that he wasn't Ashley's husband.

her face. If Raymond weren't here,

didn't

sighed and said to Amaia, "All right, it's late. Amaia, you should go. I have

you sure this cute guy is just a friend?" Amaia couldn't help but

already have a husband. He's much better looking than

mouth and

luck with cute guys. But she wasn't truly envious of her.

Ashley's husband wasn't

than him in every possible