Chapter 43. Avoiding Him

**CHERYL**

Work throughout that week later turned out to be such a dreadful experience.

People were hell-bent on finding out who the mysterious girlfriend was and I in turn was desperately trying not to let the cat out of the bag.

Ellie and Mia were the most persistent as they were convinced that I knew something but was keeping mum.

Ha! If only they knew.

My phone beeped with a new message and my heart skipped a beat when I saw it was Damien.

I bit into my lower lip and immediately deleted the message without even bothering to read it.

This has been our daily routine ever since those pictures were leaked and the speculations began.

He would either call or text me and I in turn would ghost them. And since we had been on a break for almost a week, the workload on both of us kept us so busy that we neither had time to see each other nor ran into one another at the office.

It was just better we both avoid seeing each other for the t