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“No need to explain, President Presgrave. I know you have a date with Hayley. I’m sorry that my son has bothered you guys.” Anastasia looked plainly at Elliot as she carried her son in her arms.
Elliot’s breathing stopped for a split second after she finished speaking and he frowned. “How did you know I was having dinner with Hayley?”
However, Anastasia didn’t want to talk. Just the thought of him exhibiting his excellence on top of Hayley and fulfilling his biological imperative had Anastasia thinking the air around him was suffocating.
As she hated Hayley, she hated him as well. She wanted nothing to do with anyone or anything related to Hayley.
With that, Anastasia stepped back inside the room and shut the front door, leaving Elliot outside on his own.
Jared, on the other hand, was brought to the couch and lectured. The little boy pouted and finally mumbled after a long while, “But I like Mr. Presgrave.”
“Well, don’t. And never call him without my permission ever again. He’s a big boss, and he’s super busy, understand, Jared?”
Anastasia knew only by telling Jared Elliot was swamped with work that he would eventually stop approaching Elliot.
Jared nodded, expressing that he got it. But deep down, he genuinely liked Elliot, for he saw a father in that man. Oh, how he wished his mother would marry Elliot so that he could be his father.
Anastasia felt bad for her little boy despite reprimanding him, as it was her fault, to begin with. She shouldn’t have let Jared grow attached to Elliot.
She decided that she would never make such mistakes ever again. It was time she and Elliot drew a line. They shouldn’t be in this ambiguous relationship any longer.
Anastasia mulled over many things when she lay in bed that night, mainly about Elliot. She wondered when this man filled every corner of her mind, so much so that she couldn’t even chase him away.
But even so, she couldn’t let this go on. If she really couldn’t chase him away, she’d find another man to replace him. It was just a man. No matter how desperate she got, she would never share a man with Hayley.
To Anastasia, Elliot’s entire body was long enveloped in Hayley’s stench. It was the repulsive kind that would suffocate her as soon as she got three feet close.
That night, Hayley played drunk and brought Daniel to her room. Under her seduction, they rolled around in bed despite Daniel’s feigned rejection. Yes, Hayley did the deed that night as she proclaimed, just that it wasn’t with Elliot. While Daniel was asleep, Hayley took a few sneaky pictures. She could use them to fool Anastasia into thinking Elliot was sleeping with her.
After a night’s deliberation, Anastasia woke up with an eased mind the following morning. She wouldn’t have to worry anymore after she cleared her mind and planned out her future.
She had no time to waste on such things. She had to work hard and earn money, for her son was her everything.
Apart from Jared, no one was worth her time and energy.
Making money is the top priority.
It wasn’t until after Anastasia dropped Jared off at school that she realized she had left her sketches at home. With that, she headed back home to retrieve it. On her journey, she got a call from Felicia telling her to come in for a meeting.
After hanging up, Anastasia accidentally left her cell at the back of the cab, and soon after she got out, the cab driver picked up another passenger not far away. As soon as the young man opened the car door, he found a phone sitting in the back seat. Judging from the phone case, he assumed it belonged to a lady.
As soon as he unlocked the phone, a little boy’s face popped up, and his heart melted a little. With that, he called the last person the owner of this phone contacted.
Meanwhile, while Felicia was listening to her subordinate speak in the meeting, her phone buzzed. She took a gander at it and looked toward Anastasia with surprise. “Are you calling my number?”
Anastasia shook her head in response. “No!”
“But your ID is showing up on my phone.”
“Oh, no! I must have left my phone in the cab. Answer it.” Anastasia immediately got what was going on.
With that, Felicia answered the call. “Hello?”
“Hi, are you a friend of this phone’s owner? She left it in a cab.”
“I’m her boss. She happens to be right next to me. I’ll let her talk to you.” And Felicia handed her phone to Anastasia.
With that, Anastasia hurriedly took it and walked out of the conference room. “Hi, I’m the owner of the phone you found.”
“Hi, Miss. I’m running an errand. Why don’t you give me your address, and I’ll bring your phone to you later?” A clear and melodious young man’s voice sounded on the other end of the line.
“Thank you, but I should go and get it from you instead.”
“I bet you work nearby! I’m at Crystal Enterprise. What about you?”
“I’m at Bourgeois Jewelry Atelier.”
“Wow! We work next to each other!” the man exclaimed.
Anastasia looked out the window and happened to see the Crystal Enterprise building right outside. With that, she smiled. “Yeah! I can see your office building from where I’m at!”
“In that case, I’ll wait for you in front of your office building at around eleven-thirty. Just come down by then.”
“Thank you so much!”
“No worries.”
With that, she hung up and returned to the conference room. After the meeting, Felicia leaned over with a smile. “You should treat the guy to lunch, no?”
Anastasia nodded at that. “That’s the plan.”
“He sounds like a handsome young man! I wonder if he actually is,” Felicia teased.
Anastasia, too, thought the young man sounded amiable. She bet he must be the aspirant, hard-working type. She had gone down and waited at eleven-twenty for the guy to come, glad that she encountered a stranger who would return her phone.
Just then, a cab pulled over at the entrance, and Anastasia looked up to find a guy in a plaid shirt coming out. He was a six-foot tall, handsome young man with a clean temperament and an affable look. He was stumped for a few seconds, for he saw Anastasia right as he looked up. With that, he blinked and asked with a smile, “Are you Miss Tillman?”
“Yes, that’s me.” Anastasia nodded and smiled.
At that, he pulled her phone out of his bag and handed it to her. “Here you go. You should check and see if there’s any damage. I’ve put it in my bag all this while.”
Anastasia was touched. Of course, she wasn’t going to check because she was already thankful to get her phone back.
“Thank you so much. If you’re not in a hurry, why don’t I treat you to lunch?”
“Please, call me Oliver. I’m a programmer, and I have to rush back for a meeting. So I’ll have to turn down your offer. But I hope we can be friends.” Oliver Shaw scratched his head, clearly a little flustered talking to a gorgeous lady.
“Sure. Let’s exchange numbers. Do let me treat you to a meal sometime,” Anastasia said enthusiastically.
After exchanging their contacts, Anastasia saw him off to the cab before returning to the lobby. She had to admit Oliver left a great impression on her.
What was more, she had a thing for clean, refreshing-looking guys since she was little.
As soon as she returned to her office, her intercom rang, and she answered it. “Hello, Anastasia speaking. Who is this on the line?”
“Come to my office.” A magnetic voice unique to Elliot sounded on the other end.
However, Anastasia didn’t want to see him. “I’m busy with work, President Presgrave. You can tell me on the phone.”