You'll Fall For Me, Today or tomorrow

Hilary remained distracted and had little to contribute to their banter.

Though that was how she had always been in front of outsiders, Yvonne did not particularly appreciate her speaking in front of them.

She secretly despised Hilary, and would rather that the latter kept her mouth shut, especially in front of her own fiancé.

Hence no one found Hilary’s silence unusual.

When she got home, Hilary stayed in the room by herself and sifted through her smartphone for information on Shermaine. The more she saw, the more her mood devolved. She went on to look up on James Smallwood and immediately knew that it was him.

Hilary understood now why she had found Shermaine awfully familiar and even took an instant liking to her.

She began to sob uncontrollably away in the washroom with the showers left running so that no one could hear her and continued this way for some time.

By the time Zach entered the room, Hilary was already fast asleep.

Or rather, she pretended to be asleep, as she was worried that Zach might notice something amiss.

The next morning while Zach was away at the office, she immediately called up Clarissa.

Clarissa was a little miffed that her mother has asked to meet. There was a chill in the air which encroached upon her skin, so she would rather sleep in.

“What’s so important that we’ve to do this so early, Mom?”

Hilary’s words were almost upon her own lips before she swallowed them back down. She opted to adopt a more measured and casual approach.

“Early, you say? Is this your daily routine? What kind of work are you doing that doesn’t pay and leaves you so undisciplined? Look at how hard everyone else is hustling. You aren’t bad looking so even if you don’t want to work, you should put in a little effort to doll yourself up when you go out.”

Clarissa laughed a little, only to patronize her mother.

“Why aren’t you talking?”

“Your observations are spot-on, Mom. I’m not able to defend myself!”

“You know, I’m this close to giving up on you, girl.”

You had never cared about me that much anyway.

That was what Clarissa thought. Hilary paused before she asked, “Remember that we’ve met Shermaine last time? Do you know her? I really like her, so do you think you could introduce us?”

“Huh?”

Clarissa’s brows perked up. “I don’t really know her as we operate in different social circles. I’ve only interacted with her back then because she’s a friend of my classmate.”

“I see. That makes sense.”

mildly disappointed, yet oddly

become a

mother chuckled. “Do I have to explain this? I just enjoyed one

it necessary to try to reach out to

you’re holed up in the house with your

An awkward silence ensued.

have slapped herself if

saying all

her resolve to

back to spend winter in W City. Probably be back next year. Got a

little blasé, and only because she did not understand that the purpose of Hilary’s call was not actually

Zen Highlands, but made a trip down

her subordinates would be fortuitous if they saw her in the office once or twice a week. She was practically like a junior employee who needed supervision. Mandy in particular had constantly pressed her for updates to her works, amongst all the other things

rabid fan of her writings herself with an insatiable appetite for

came in, so much so that she had to have snacks at the ready with which to

They were able to bring in more sources of income in the form of a

aren’t you posting new chapters? Even if you write only a thousand words a day, you should have consolidated quite a lot by now. Why haven’t you provided updates? I’m going to

spoke as she stuffed her own

“Alright, you do whatever you have to do. I’ll send them to you as a tribute

“You’re an evil mistress.”

“I’m not yet a

might run with that

if you have a boyfriend and are cohabiting with him, what else

and tone left Clarissa red in

Aren’t

“Oh, I’m so scared!”

production company is keen on. There are also a few more requests for you to do some screenwriting. It would be better to step it up before the end of the year,

“What?”

would seem that she would not only need to avoid speaking but also

around the corner, the only thing she had on her

want to earn more to make rent? How is

immediately. “I’ll get down to

She wished

“Your office has been underutilized all this time. You should get in there. It’s

mean like right

“Yes, now. Questions?”

“Nope. None at all.”

slipped into her own office. It was really quiet

to Christian, “You know, Clarissa could just marry into wealth. I mean like, why’s she even working so hard? I’d do absolutely nothing were I in her shoes. I’d fly to Europe to

be impossible not to once they had been around the

to fearfulness, to normalization. Clarissa was away when they were going through all these emotional stages. By the time she appeared, they