Chapter 392 - The confusion (2/2)

Edward laughed. It was so easy to do that when he was around her now. He found himself looking forward to it.

”You can't afford my expertise, Red. So do not get ahead of yourself. Those dumplings are the best you have had in your life, I'm sure,” he bragged.

Amy wanted to argue but they had been really delicious and a part of her wanted to experience what his other cooking would taste like, so she just stood there, smiling happily. He caught her smile and returned it in full measure.

”I have to go now,' he said, almost regretfully, ”But I guess I'll see you back at the office in a day?”

She nodded. It was almost painful to watch him go. She wished he would never leave. She felt a sudden d.e.s.i.r.e to want to share her day with him, including the mundane and seemingly unimportant bits.

But he was already out the door, and she found herself alone again with nothing but her thoughts and the lingering smell of his manly musk mixed with what Amy was sure to be one of the most expensive body mists in the province.

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The affairs of the other day had not come to play at all in her handling of her duties. She went through the motions like a robot, taking his messages, serving his coffee but by the end of the day, she felt a lot more tired than she was used to feeling.

Yet she brushed it off as nothing more than the stress of work. She even gave herself a mental high-five to commend herself for doing so well.

But at the end of the first three days, she was starting to really wonder if she was not doing herself harm by pretending that all was well.

Because at the end of the day she had to tell herself the honest truth that she was in fact merely carrying on a façade of being okay when on the inside, all of her was going to pieces wondering if she had imagined the intimate moments they had shared at her house not many days prior.

Or perhaps she had read too much meaning into a harmless visit, she wondered. But then again, she was certain bosses did not just show up at their employee's homes and offer to cook them breakfast out of nowhere.

Or maybe she had not gotten the memo when workplace culture drastically changed.

She knew she was just in denial, trying to ease the stress of acting like there was nothing between her and Edward but she also realized that she did not have much of a choice to begin with.

He was acting just as cool and detached and she had to follow his lead. It felt a little bit unfair that he seemed to be at the reins both at work and otherwise.

She felt like a puppet on a string dancing to his every whim and caprice. And very slowly she started to notice that there was a budding resentment in her heart for Edward but she acted tough even though all the walls seemed to be collapsing around her.