Ethan stood in the elevator, all stiff and tense His fear lingered at the back of his head He had been sweating so much that his shirt had already stuck to his back Ethat had never expected to meet Janet here, of all places He hadn’t even figured out how to tell her the truth yet.

All this time, he had been going to great lengths, monitoring her every move in the office, just to avoid accidentally running into her Every day, he would wait for her to leave the company before getting off work himself.

And whenever Janei needed to clock in some overtime, Ethan made sure to leave after she did. That afternoon, Janet had sent him a message saying that she was going to have coffee with Kent.

Ethan had been in the middle of a meeting with the senior executives, so he hadn’t even been able to reply to her Once the meeting was done, he had proceeded to go over the financial statements and make the necessary revisions.

It had taken him a while before he could finally call it a day.

He had felt safe taking the CEO’s elevator under the foolish presumption that Janet would either be at the coffeehouse or on her way home by now.

Ethan had never expected her to suddenly return to the company.

Just before the elevator reached the top floor, Ethan received another message from Janet.

She was asking about Emani.

her coldly, saying that it had nothing to do

knew then that she had seen

first, he immediately averted

after that, his phone

was inviting Brandon to

to tell her the truth, however, so he had no choice but to make

yanked his tie off his

in the same old, relaxed voice he always used around her

time are you coming

asked in a casual tone that made it difficult to tell how she was actually feeling "Do you have to work

clenched his fist and cleared his

until

wrapping up

rushed into his office and made a beeline for the floor-to-ceiling windows that overlooked the

of the company building, he let out a long sigh. He

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