Love from My Dominant Boss

When I woke up at night, Natalie had already come back. Her eyes widened in shock upon seeing me walk out of my room.

“Why are you back so early today? Don’t you have to work overtime?”

I stretched and yawned while answering her. “I took the day off today.”

“You took the day off? Holy sh*t. Is the sun rising from the west or something?”

Natalie gaped at me in utter disbelief.

I hummed in confirmation but remained otherwise silent. Noticing the gloomy look on my face, Natalie started eyeing me suspiciously.

“You didn’t come home last night. Where’d you go?”

My expression stiffened upon hearing Natalie’s question, and I replied somewhat guiltily, “I was working overtime.”

“Working overtime? Why are you lying? Who the hell works overtime for the entire night? Tell me the truth. Did you…” Natalie trailed off and raised her brows meaningfully.

Although she didn’t finish her sentence, her question was very obvious.

My face instantly flushed red when Natalie figured out what I had done the previous night. I began fidgeting on the spot, unable to meet Natalie’s eyes because of the guilt that I was feeling.

“What on earth are you thinking about? I really was working overtime. I’m hungry. Let’s eat now.”

The guilt in my voice couldn’t be mistaken. With that, I ignored Natalie and quickly went to set up the table.

Natalie was too smart for her own good. If Michael started looking for me too frequently, I wouldn’t be able to keep our relationship a secret from Natalie anymore. I couldn’t help but worry if she would look down on me if she found out about our

and looked me in the eye, asking me with a solemn expression, “Anna, why do I have the feeling you’ve been hiding something from me recently? Are you facing some

my eyes

this all of

working overtime every night. You’re acting weird, Anna. Besides, it doesn’t make sense that such a large company like Joyful Success would need their employees to work

her cutlery and peered at me

for more than a week, and it was rare for any company to have its employees work overtime for

if she knew that I

been busier than usual lately, so I’ve been working overtime to meet deadlines,” I said against my conscience, then quickly bowed my head

really what’s

continued scrutinizing me, as though she

eating, so I’m going back to my

of this, I darted toward my room right after saying

I breathed a long sigh of relief. As I lay in bed, I began stewing over what would happen

gnawing on my chest at the thought of this. I should never have said those things to Conrad on the spur of the

living hell. Conrad was a very spiteful person. Now that

over this matter as it would only make me more frustrated.

didn’t do anything to offend them. I couldn’t help but wonder if it was because two of my colleagues

to let them get to me. Ignoring all of them, I settled down directly

began whispering among themselves. I couldn’t hear what they were saying, but seeing as they would peek at me from time to time, I could guess that their topic of discussion was

“Anna, you’re here.”

whom I was on good terms with,

“Mm-hmm.”