Chapter 18

Tessa’s POV

I had just moved past the receptionist who was requesting for this month’s salary from me. I rolled my eyes at her. She has not provided me with any tangible information for the past two months now and she is expecting me to still pay her.

I told her I was going to get back to her. I need to see Aidan first.

I want to take the lift to his office when I bump into an elderly woman. I left home in a bad mood and I am here with the hope that the news I got from my father is untrue.

“Hey, watch where you are going,” she yells at me.

I wanted to apologize before she said that. But the yelling piss me off. “Watch where you are going too, old woman.” I retort back and enter the elevator.

I didn’t bother to look at her as the door closed gradually. I know she must be glaring at me coldly. I have no time to banter words with her, she is the least of my problems.

When my father informed me of Trevor’s proposal to marry me to his son, Aidan,