ANASTASIA The lodge keeper appeared at my door, around midday after the plumber left and asked, his face etched with worry, “Are you okay? The plumber said you were crying." I had forced out a laugh. "I knew he panicked. I'm fine. It's just my period. I get so emotional whenever the time comes.”
The next day at work, I finally summoned up the courage to talk to Aiden, about everything. I prepared myself to own up and apologize for how I wronged him and hurt him and how I would love to make things right. When I reached work that morning, I didn't see him come up but when I asked, Rachel tol
ANASTASIA My palms flew to my mouth to silence my gasps. As I watched the lady continue to move ontop of Aiden, I took staggering steps back until my back came in contact with the wall on the other side of the hallway. I dragged my shivering hand away from my mouth, to my chest, where it stayed fo
“Hey. You guys are still around?" I blurted the first words that came to my head as I stepped aside for them to come in and I was thankful to God that my voice didn't quiver like it normally would have. “Yeah, we are putting in our best in the project the boss asked us to work on. Who doesn't want
ANASTASIA I whirled around, curious to see who it was and what I had dropped. I looked around for a while and my eyes quickly settled on the drop-dead gorgeous woman strutting towards me from the TasteTech building like she was on a runway, her eyes pinning me to the spot. Her hips swayed from sid
“I know right!" She chirped. “I am so happy." She sighed dreamily, “Aiden is such a good man and caring lover, I'm so lucky to be getting married to him. “We will be getting married soon. Wait, gimme a second." She made a show of rummaging her designer bag for a while before her head came up with
AIDEN I slowed my steps down and finally came to a stop before the rows of cubicles. In the fifth cubicle on the fourth row, Ana sat, her back straight as she paid her full attention to her work. I knew because some of the staff around her noticed I was there and flashed me a shy smile with a nod o
She scoffed. “Wow. What am I? Some random client?” I didn't respond this time around and just returned my attention to what I was doing.I really wasn’t getting any break from all of this, was I?After a while I started," Sharon—” but she cut me off as soon as the words came flying out of my mouth.