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

frenzy and quickly looked away. For some reason, I felt guilty for answering

each other for a few days now.

jerked me back

“Uhm, I…”

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

because I finally found a man who I was compatible with, and

of my life with. Not to mention, I might never be able to find another man

wrong, Anna? You can’t

for my answer, Yuval’s voice sounded again, and I could detect the disappointment in his

it. Then

to Yuval’s invitation,

few more documents here that

from me, Michael looked at me with an

“Oh, okay…”

dumbly at Michael, unable to snap out

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

actually couldn’t come up with an excuse to reject him earlier. Now that Michael had given me a good excuse, I couldn’t deny that

end of the line, I wasn’t worried that

with your work. Let’s have dinner some

man as he didn’t make a big deal out of it after

call, I breathed a long sigh of relief. I couldn’t tell if it was because of my relationship with Michael, but

turned around and found Michael still standing at the same spot, I instinctively backed away a few

Michael’s eyes and asked awkwardly, “Which documents

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