Chapter 160

"Doesn't matter. I am not going in there and leaving you here, all alone in this ridiculously huge house. Also, I don't trust myself not to go on a firing spree of the entire engineering department and anywhere else Charlotte's poison might have spread. I get mad just thinking about all that micro aggression that was going on behind my back." I say, I reach out to tuck her hair behind her ear. She has her hands cupped under her face, watching me through sleep fogged pale blue eyes that makes my heart itch and miss a beat.

"Ah. Okay. You can stay then. If the alternative is firing more people, you should stay home. You have done enough damage already, Linc." Amelia says, smiling weakly.

I know she is just joking. It is nothing more than witty banter but it still makes my heart tug wretchedly with guilt. I can't keep the guilt off my face. She sees it and frowns.

"I am sorry, Amelia. About all this. I am terribly sorry. The guilt is eating me up. I don't know how I will eve