Emily squealed in surprise when she fell backwards. Normally, Ryan wouldn’t care but he couldn’t just let her fall since he is the one that caused her to lose her balance so he wrapped his hand around her instead and she fell on his lap.
His hand unconsciously inched around her waist. “Aww… Why do you have so much weight?” He complained as she turned without making an attempt to stand up.
Emily looked awfully offended by his remark. Is he indirectly telling her that she is fat? This… This jerk!
She turned in a way that made it seem like she was straddling him now. None really noticed how intimate their position was at that moment.
“Excuse me, mister… If someone hadn’t pulled me, catching me unaware, I wouldn’t have to sit on these skinny laps,” She looked like an angry schoolgirl that had just been teased.
Ryan leaned in closer. Seems like he enjoys doing that. “These skinny laps are sturdy enough to contain your weight. You feel like a pig.”
Emily gasped… This rude jerk! Others are dying to hold her in his arms but he is comparing her weight to a pig! Anytime she thinks he might just be starting to shed off his rude shell, he ends up proving her wrong.
“Well, the backside is an exception,” His hands trailed slowly from her waist to the curve of her bum. As Emily felt his hands rest on her bum, her face turned red. She was simply speechless.
“You… You…,” Let’s say she was lost for words to say to this rude, narcissistic, handsome pervert! Wait… Did she just call him handsome huh?
“Me… Me… Me what?” He repeated after her in a teasing tone.
She glared at him and wriggled on his lap in a poor attempt to free his hands that felt scorchingly hot on her bum.
“You pervert!” She completed her statement. “Do you treat all your female employees like this on their first-day perv!?”
She didn’t like how disgruntled she felt while saying those words. She didn’t have time to dwell on it though cause Ryan’s eyes darkened with an emotion she couldn’t describe.
“I’ll have to squeeze your butt cheeks if you keep on wriggling like that on me,” He threatened in a low tone. Emily’s face turned even more red that I’m afraid it might turn into a tomato very soon.
Before she had time to give him a reply, the door suddenly opened without even a knock to announce the unwanted presence.
“Boss, I already sort out the file and marked the…” Ryan looked up when the feminine voice stopped. The woman’s eyes widened when she saw the position her boss and this unknown lady is in.
Emily could feel her staring cause she leaned into Ryan, burying her face in his chest out of embarrassment. Just great! On her first day, she had to be caught in a huge scandal with the big boss. Why does she feel like heaven has been treating her unfairly since she met Ryan!?
Ryan glared at the woman standing at the door and she remembered to look away. “I’m so sorry sir. I didn’t mean to interrupt. I jus…”
“Drop the file,” Ryan stopped her from rambling. The woman rushed forward to drop the file. Even though the file was landing on the table, she was staring at Emily intently, trying to confirm her suspicions.
Ryan cleared his throat and that single sound sent her scrambling for the door. As soon as the door closed, Emily looked up at him like she wanted to cry.
“Hey! Why are you looking at me like this? If others were to see your expression now, they would think I am bullying you,” He reached out with a free hand and took the box on the table.
Emily wanted to cry out,’ You are indeed bullying me boss!’ but her lips refused to part way.
“Here… Open up. This is why you are in this position in the first place,” He stretched the spoonful of food at her carefully.
Despite her despair, she couldn’t deny the fact that she was very hungry so she accepted his kind offer to feed her even though it was awkward.
“Don’t worry about her. None of my employees would dare to gossip about me,” His words seemed to dispel the worries in her heart a little.
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“Cousin… When will you go back to your office? It’s past lunch already and you haven’t gotten any work done yet today. Al you have been doing is ordering foods and filling my ears with Ryan’s betrayal,” Chris sounded frustrated as he watched Scott slurp on the straw that was stuck into a can of coke.
“I’m the boss okay? I’ll go when I feel like it. How could brother have betrayed me like that? I told him to convince you to release Emily to me so I can teach her a lesson but he stole her right under my nose!” Scott looked even more displeased as he elaborated on the issue.
“He didn’t steal her,” Chris corrected. “I gave her to him freely so it can’t be considered as stealing.”
Scott sized up Chris with a frighteningly cold look that spelt out great anger. “Right, why did you give her out to brother? No matter what I offered, you were clearly unwilling to give her to me. So why him?”
“Why not him? He was so fearful of that change I didn’t expect. Is the other side finally starting to resurface?” Chris’s question caused a sudden silence.
Scott looked appalled how come he didn’t even think about that possibility before? But what other side are they talking about?
The silence was broken by strings of vibration sounds. Chris and Scott brought out their phones simultaneously with the latter mumbling, “Is the world finally about to come to an end?”
The messages they saw were even more shocking than the news of the world coming to an end. Chris’s mouth hung open as he read the countless messages.
“So this is why huh? Brother, you little snitch!” Scott yelled playfully.
“He’s your elder brother,” Chris had to serve as a reminder.
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