“Abby, you go too, I’m going to rest.” Johnny Evans closed her eyes and looked distressed.
After Abby left, Evan’s mother was a little upset, “Why are you talking to me like that, and Abby treats you so well, I support you.”
“Mom!” Johnny Evans calmed down a little, but after hearing his mother talk about Abby Williams he was shaking with anger. “It was you who ruined Alexia. Can you leave me alone now. I am. Tired.” Johnny Evans turned his head, his face pale, and his eyes darkened.
She got up, walked to the door, turned, and said, “I’m out there. If you don’t want to see me, I won’t come in, but I’ll always be here with you!”
Johnny Evans closed his eyes and clenched his teeth tightly.
At that moment, after the call hung up, I felt Calvin’s big hand on my waist. I turned my head to look at him , “Can’t you see him?”
I shook my head, “No!”
Calvin blinked, an unfamiliar light flashing in the corners of his eyes.
I looked into Calvin’s eyes, what did he see?
“I don’t mind you coming to see me!” Calvin repeated, “Even if it’s out of humanitarian concern.”
I was silent for a while , “No! I will not go! He and I will be strangers from now on.”
Calvin shook my hand and after a moment said, “I believe you!”
I was stunned as I suddenly realized something was wrong.
“What are you doing?” I turned my head to look at Calvin, who was standing very close to me, and then ducked my head.
Calvin grabbed my hand and smiled ambiguously, “I want to prove something to you!”
“What’s wrong?” I frowned and watched as he played with my hand.
“Proving I’m not gay!” Calvin narrowed his eyes and moved closer.
“Fuck!” I quickly ran away from him and stormed towards the bathroom without thinking.
Oh my god, why do I have such bad luck, every time I say something bad about him, he gets to hear it!
Calvin leaned on the sofa, lips pursed into a smile.
After Cavin left, I ran into the bedroom and sent Andy a message, “I got killed by you!
“What’s wrong? What did I do?” Andy quickly replied.
I decided to scare Andy and shouted, “I was just with Calvin, and he heard your last words!”
“Really?! Alexia, don’t scare me!” exclaimed Andy.
“Why did I lie to you! You’re going to kill me!” I was depressed to death, I don’t know what Calvin thinks of me now?
“Alexia, did you really live with Mr. Smith?” Andy cut to the chase.
“We’re married!” I said seriously.
“Get the fuck out of here! Roll as far away as you can!” said Andy in a bad mood.
“Haha,” I laughed on the bed, and no one believed the truth anymore.
“By the way, how have you been working out?”, I asked.
“Normally I want to go back to work, but I quit, I’m embarrassed to bring it back,” Andy said.
“If you want to come back, I can ask Warren to help you.” I also want Andy to come back to work.
“Can you?” Andy actually regretted quitting her job a long time ago. When she heard that I had found a way, she cried out in joy.
“Yes, I’ll try, and I’ll let you know the results.”
The next morning I was still on my way to work with Calvin. On the way there, the look on his face was natural, but I was embarrassed. I couldn’t stop thinking about what had happened yesterday. When I got to the office, I leaned back in my seat and saw Warren coming. I planned to tell him about Andy while he was in the pantry.
“Warren, can you do me a favor?”
“What’s busy?”
“Yeah, that,” I wrinkled my nose and thought about how to say it, “You remember that Andy guy?”
“Of course I remember, what’s going on?” asked Warren as he drank coffee.
“She quit her job earlier and now she wants to go back to work, so-” I winked.
“So you want me to help you get her back?” asked Warren.
“Yeah.” I nodded, but when Warren didn’t say anything, I figured he wasn’t willing to help with that, so I waved a hand, “It doesn’t matter, if you can’t help, just let her reapply or find another job.”
“No problem, just leave it to me.” Warren stood up and checked his watch for the time. He smiled, “She should be able to go back to work by next Monday at the latest.”
“So soon!” My eyes lit up and I jumped for joy.
After Warren left, I sent Andy a triumphant look, and then I noticed someone come in. I turned my head and saw that it was Calvin.
I only gave him a quick glance though, picked up my cup, and left without turning around.
Calvin’s eyelids twitched, and just as he was about to reach out to pull me to him, he saw someone coming, so his outstretched hand came back.
“Mr. Smith.” The other secretaries greeted him respectfully.
“Yes.” Calvin nodded, turned, and walked out.
“Hey, don’t you think this is strange?” The two who had just entered looked at each other. “Why doesn’t Mr. Smith bring a cup when he enters the pantry? He doesn’t bring anything when he goes out either, does he? He didn’t come to drink water. Then why did he come?”
“What are you trying to say?”
“Didn’t you just run into Alexia? She was going out of the pantry, and Mr. Smith happened to be here? There’s something fishy about that.” One of them grinned.
“A colleague told me that Alexia met with Mr. Smith, and they kissed in the street. Alexia being a simple girl, I wouldn’t have expected her to be able to seduce men like that.”
The man said with great interest, and suddenly he felt someone pull hard on his arm. He asked unhappily, “Why are you pulling on me? Smith, Mr. Smith.”
“Mr. Smith!” The man looked at Calvin who came back, his nervous face instantly pale, and he knew Calvin must have heard everything as he looked into Calvin’s cold eyes.
“I chose you to be my secretary, not for you to gossip about my personal affairs!” Calvin said coldly.
“Yes, I’m sorry Mr. Smith, I won’t do it again!” The two bowed quickly.
Calvin looked at the person who had said something bad about me, “If I hear anything bad about the company again, you should quit!”
Just as I was about to leave work on my lunch break, I got a call from Andy. She said she wanted to thank me and take me out to lunch.
I was just about to go on a date with Andy when Calvin called me,
“Hey?”
“We’re going out to lunch!” Said Calvin curtly.
“No, I have a date with someone, you can eat alone.” Seeing that it was time to call it a day, I picked up my bag, stood up and said, “I’m leaving now.”
Before Calvin could express his dissatisfaction, he was hung up on.
“Brother, would you like to have dinner with me?” Warren invited him cordially.
Calvin gave Warren a cold look. “What did she tell you this morning?”
“That Andy regretted quitting her job. She wanted to come back. She didn’t have the heart to tell you, so she told me.”
Warren took a sip from his water glass.
Calvin furrowed his brows, said nothing, and turned back to the office.
Andy and I agreed to meet at a restaurant near the company,
“By the way, I’m meeting Annie tonight. She has to do her makeup tonight. I have to stay with her. Alexia, why don’t you be Annie’s bridesmaid? I thought we all agreed to be bridesmaids,” Andy said when they met.
“I said I was married!” I took a sip of the soup and bowed my head.
“Alexia, this joke isn’t funny at all.” Andy gave me a blank look, then picked up the bowl of soup and started drinking.
“Believe it or not!” I blinked and smiled.
“Hey, I don’t know if Anni’s married or if it’s good or bad to say hello to her.” Andy suddenly sighed.
My mood got heavy from that sentence, I hope everyone is okay.
After work, when everyone had left, I was about to push open the door to Calvin’s office and saw that the door was open from the inside. Calvin had put on his jacket and was standing there like he was about to come out.
“Are you alone?” Calvin looked up, not seeing Warren.
I bared my teeth, “Yeah, you got plans tonight? I can go back by myself.”
Calvin gave me a look, said nothing, and pulled me away with him.
“Where to?” I asked.
“Home.” Calvin said solemnly.
“Didn’t you say you were going swimming yesterday? Why didn’t you swim?” I got on the elevator, and the atmosphere was too quiet, so I looked for a topic .
“Not in the mood!” Calvin stood there with narrowed eyes, slapped his hands together and said coldly.
“Are you going tonight then?” I asked again.
“Not interested!” replied Calvin.
“Then what are you interested in?” My mouth twitched, how should I feel, Calvin was angry again.
“Sleeping with you!” Calvin replied with a self righteous look on his face.
Calvin blinked and looked at my face behind him in the elevator mirror, my face flushed.
Calvin curled his lips slightly.
Once in the underground parking garage, I didn’t speak to Calvin until he got in the car.
“Tomorrow Anni is getting married, and I’ll be there early in the morning.” I said.
“Your roommate Anni?” Calvin asked with a frown.
“Well,” I nodded, “I thought it would be good to be her bridesmaid, but now I can’t do it, so I can’t even be late for her wedding.”
“Are you disappointed because you can’t be a bridesmaid?” Calvin asked softly.
“When we graduated college, we said that whoever got married first would be a bridesmaid. Now I’m not single, and Andy is the only one who isn’t married. Anni must be very disappointed.” I pinched my face.
When I got home, Calvin went into the study and I cooked. The atmosphere was very harmonious.
After dinner, I did the dishes and stayed in the room to talk to Andy.
Andy : Anni’s mother is fighting again.
ME : Tomorrow is the wedding, why are they fighting?
Andy : It’s still about the wage card. Anni’s mother just didn’t give out the pay card. She said if she gave the card back to Anni, she would never get it back.
I’m speechless.
ME: Hey, I feel sorry for Anni, how can there be such a family!
Andy : I think so too! Hey, really Alexia, Mr. Smith is really good to you, no matter what he’s going to do, you have to appreciate what you have now. Okay, I’m gonna go pack my stuff, I’ll see you tomorrow.
ME : Okay, I know.
I was lying on the bed, but I was thinking to myself, actually I also realize that without Calvin, I might be worse than Anni.