A One Night Stand With My Boss

Camila looked at John with gratitude. "Thank you so much. I had no idea Howard would push me like this."

John chuckled, "We're friends, so don't mention it."

Camila nodded, smiling.

"Let me walk you to the bus." She didn't want to go back to the office so soon.

"Sure," John agreed with a nod.

Together, they walked to the bus stop, and after a short wait, the bus arrived.

"Thank you, John," Camila said again before boarding the bus.

"No worries, call me if you need anything," John said with a smile, waving goodbye.

***

"He's her boyfriend now." The words echoed in Connor's ears relentlessly.

Those words pierced his heart like a curse, disrupting his peace and even making his breathing erratic.

For the first time, Connor experienced an anxiety he had never felt before. His thoughts tangled like a knotted thread, growing more irritable the more he thought about it.

a rational

now, he couldn't control his thoughts. His mood

in the lounge,

the internal anxiety

wait, there was still

go look

exited the lounge and rushed through

took a deep breath, and pushed

was about to leave when a

his heartbeat skipping a

He slowly bent down,

had given Camila. It was now lying on

heart clenched painfully, almost leaving him

eyes filled with indescribable sadness

being torn apart, the pain

detail that went into designing

carelessly mistreated his

in Connor's eyes, his