Chapter 166

“You deserve it… Although you don't seem very thrilled for someone who got promoted,” she let down her guard,” What's wrong Nick? And don't say nothing because we both know that's a lie. You've never been like this before. Why are you so angry at me?”

He glanced away from that beautiful face and sensual mouth. Either that or risk letting Michelle glimpse the secret he’d managed to keep hidden for so long. It wouldn’t do to reveal that he was in love with her.

Unrequited love.

His hold tightened on the glass, matching the constriction squeezing his chest. Such a fancy, completely inadequate way to describe the hell of having your heart broken day after day when the person you crave more than air looks at you with wholesome...affection. It killed a part of him.

And every time she brushed those soft, almost too-full lips over his cheek in a platonic kiss, or pressed her sexy, lush curves against his body in an amicable hug, another piece