It was a sleepless night for me. When I looked into the mirror the next morning, I sighed irritably upon seeing the dark circles under my eyes.

I prepared some breakfast for myself but didn’t have an appetite. Thus, I only ate a little bit and went to the office.

 

Never did I expect Michael to be serious about working in Joyful Success for half a year, but he actually set up his own office here.

Glancing at the temporary CEO’s office a short distance away, I began to worry about what happened with Michael the previous night.

I felt skittish every time I saw him, so I really didn’t know how I was going to get through the next six months of seeing him every day.

 

Fortunately for me, Michael was a workaholic and treated everyone else like thin air whenever he was working. Naturally, he didn’t make things difficult for me either.

Just before getting off work, I was arranging the files on my desk when my phone rang. Glancing at the caller ID, panic rose in me when I saw that it was Yuval.

I peeked at Michael’s office guiltily.

 

Seeing as his attention was focused on a document in his hand, I quickly picked up the call.

“Anna, are you still at work? What took you so long to answer?”

 

Yuval’s warm and gentle voice drifted across the line.

to leave the office now,” I answered blandly and shot another

time, I found Michael staring

and quickly looked away. For some reason, I felt

a few days

me back to my

“Uhm, I…”

relationship with him for another six months. During this period of time, there was no way Yuval and I could get along like

wasn’t because I was fickle-hearted, but because I finally found a man who I was compatible with, and who

very difficult to find a suitable man to spend the rest of my life with. Not to

Anna? You

voice sounded again, and I could

not it. Then

agree to Yuval’s invitation, but Michael’s voice

few more documents here

me, Michael looked at me with an icy and unreadable expression on his

“Oh, okay…”

at Michael, unable to snap out of my

need to work overtime tonight. Let’s take a rain

Now that Michael

heard Michael’s orders from the other end of the line, I wasn’t worried that

work. Let’s have

he didn’t make a big deal

breathed a long sigh of relief. I couldn’t tell if it was because of my relationship with Michael, but I really didn’t know how to

and found Michael still standing at the same spot,

met Michael’s eyes and asked awkwardly, “Which documents do you need me

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