Chapter 38

"If we get a decent investor then the stocks for the launch of-"

"Later." I cut my secretary in middle and gestured him to leave.

Once he was out of the sight, I rested my head against the chair and gritted my teeth in frustration. Glancing at the phone, Ayla's smiling face flashed on the phone wallpaper and I couldn't help but unlock the phone. My fingers itched to press on the call button but deep down I know that this time she's not going to answer it.

Last night was a mistake. A fucking drunken mistake. I shouldn't have called her and confess whatever the shit I'm feeling about her and get myself humiliated. She was never mine to begin with and I never intended to develop any emotion for her. It was all simple. A lie. A lie to make that Bastard suffer but in the end it backfired.

Being with her for all those years, I never knew that when she became this important to me. Maybe it was when she treated me like a normal human being rather than