Love from My Dominant Boss

Chapter 508 Putting On An Act

“I am still your mother,” she murmured as she wiped her bloodshot eyes, putting on a brave smile. “We will never be just strangers. It’s okay if you need some time to think about it. I will be patiently waiting for the day you decide to forgive me.”

“I have work to do,” I said curtly. “Please leave now.”

Unable to bear giving in to the impulse of hurting her again, I dismissed her before turning away.

I hated how I always felt conflicted every time I saw Alicia. I would much rather not see her at all than have to deal with those feelings.

When I arrived at my office on the eighth floor, I could still see her from my window.

I watched her until she got into her car and drove off after standing still for a very long time. I felt that my words had finally done the trick.

The fact that I could feel the sincerity and love with which she sought my forgiveness made the guilt in my stomach bubble all the more ferociously. Perhaps she truly felt remorse for abandoning me. The moment at which I would find myself ready to forgive her remained a mystery even to myself.

When I sat before my cluttered desk in a valiant attempt to shift my focus onto work, I realized that I had, for personal reasons, fallen very far behind. Though the boss did not say anything, I was aware that I had overstepped the line as a manager by setting a poor example.

Just when I was beginning to gather my focus for work, my door was suddenly thrown open with a bang. Janette stormed in, followed by my secretary who was looking thoroughly nervous.

“I’m sorry, Ms. Garcia. I tried my best to stop her but she insisted on having a word with you.”

The girl glanced at me sheepishly as she announced the intruder’s arrival, fearing that I might lose my temper with her for her failure at doing her job.

shifted to the timid

heaved a sigh of relief before scurrying out

to barge into my office?” I said, employing the same stiff tone with which I addressed her mother earlier that day. “This isn’t the first time you have done that. Unlike you, I have work to do. If you don’t mind, kindly get the hell out of my

hostility. Vividly recollecting the aftermath of our previous encounter, I

be here?” Janette responded arrogantly. “I think you’re aware that

the sight of me sickens you so much, why have you come to

take her too seriously as she was much younger than

don’t understand what she sees in you to want to

jealousy as she

forgetting that she was my half-sister

me was a product of

of growing up under her

mother. You may put your mind at ease. It’s something

she would be pleased to know that I was

cruel to our mother? Do you know how much sleep she’d lost over the years for you? All she could talk about is meeting you again. You

up from her accusatory tone. “You have never been in my

seem capable of placing blame on anybody

me when I needed her most. The way she thought that I would be ready to forgive her and pick our relationship where we

you think of me, but let me warn you. Don’t you