Chapter Five

"O!! Shit, what am I going to do" I said to Jennifer who just laughed at me.

"I really don't know Em, why not just come clean" she gave the most ridiculous suggestion.

"Are you insane, do you know how crazy it sounds?

"o!! Mr. Marcel sorry about the other day I was just upset with your son" I imagined.

"Listen, I need to get out of here, before..."

"Good morning" a too-familiar voice interrupted, Ethan walked into the office hallway with a grey suit and a wide grin.

His suit, highlighting his perfectly toned muscle and beautiful brown hair, one thing was for sure, Ethan was hotter than Jake.

"I am Ethan Marcel, the new boss," Ethan said warmly, his eyes surveying the room, as I tried to cover my face with my hands. Luckily for me, the place was packed, everyone on the floor converged to meet the new boss.

"I need to get out of here" I whispered to Jennifer.

A smirk appeared at the side of her face, and she intentionally ignored me. "please Jen" I pleaded, pulling her to the back of the crowd.

"Cover for me, please," I said, she paused staring at me before she nodded.

I covered my face, I sneaked out through the back running to the only place I knew Ethan couldn't go, the female bathroom.

I spent the day in the bathroom enduring all the pollution that came in.

I heard the door swing open, "not again!" I cried, wondering what the cafeteria was feeding these people, I couldn't count the number of times people rushed in here with rotten stomachs.

"Hey, You still in there," Jennifer asked and I sighed,

"It's you!" I said confidently coming out of the stall I was hiding in

"You really sat here for 5 hours" She sounded more impressed than disgusted.

"What am I going to do Jen, I can't work like this" I cried, wondering what Ethan would do if he found who I was.

I would be ridiculed, condemned, the girl who kissed the famous billionaire to get back at his son. My life would be over.

"Maybe he wouldn't recognize you," she said,

"of course, he would, I spent the night with him" I frowned at her.

"Well at least break up with his son first" she reminded me of Jake.

"o! Yes, I would do that tonight, he asked to meet up" I said opening my purse and surfing through it to find my phone.

"He says he has a surprise for me" I scoffed, not if I surprised him first. I pulled out my phone, a piece of paper falling out with it.

"What's that?" Jennifer asked pointing at the cheque on the floor.

"o!! The cheque, I totally forgot to submit that" I said picking it up and thanking my stars it didn't fall on the wet side of the floor.

"What cheque" Jennifer asked, taking it from my hands and looking at it.

"Ethan gave you a cheque" she asked, eyes wide open in shock.

"Not me, the company, so I could meet my quota for the month" I explained to her and she scoffed.

"That smart bastard" she laughed, I looked at her confused, what was she talking about?

"What?" I asked peeking at the cheque.

"Do you know what this means?" She asked and I shook my head.

"It means whoever submits the cheque is the girl he is looking for, I bet he is keeping his eyes on the account just waiting for you to submit it" she explained.

'o! Emily, you fool' I berated myself, feeling so dumb not to catch up on it.

'there is no way I am going to submit it then" I said, taking it off her hands and trying to put it back in my purse.

"If you want to add robbery to your atrocities" Jennifer teased,

"I have a better idea" Jennifer said, her eyes giving one of her light bulb moment look.

"Why don't we give this cheque to someone else" Jennifer suggested.

I nodded, understanding where she was coming from "Just give it to me" I would handle it, she said, taking the cheque from my hand. And putting it in her jeans pocket.

"Now can we leave this place," she put her hands on her nose.

"yes please" I agreed, the toilet was stinking.

After work, I met up with Jake in front of "De Amour restaurant" as he requested, my mind plotting ways to tell him what I saw and break up with him. If only I was so confident.

"Hey Babe," Jake said walking up to me, as I stared at him all I could think of was what I saw, "bastard" I thought to myself.

"Are you okay?" he asked, noticing my cold demeanour towards him, "we need to talk" I mustered up the courage to say.

"Yes, I know," he cut me off like he knew what I was going to say.

"We were supposed to spend the weekend together and you didn't come"

"You haven't been picking up my calls or said anything to me for the past three days" he said, I narrowed my eyes at him wondering where he was getting at. I could sense emotional blackmail coming soon but I waited to hear it.

"Did you cheat on me babe?" he said and my eyes widened.

"What!" I exclaimed and before I could say another word he continued.

"If you did, I would forgive, I just want us to be together," he said and I scoffed.

"You bastard!" I thought to myself, for the weirdest reason I was unable to express myself, it was like I had a lump in my throat making me stay mute.

"We can talk about that later, let me show you my surprise," he said refusing to let me speak, he held my hand pulling me into the restaurant.

As we walked in I kept staring at him, unable to say anything, his level of manipulation shocked me so much, I couldn't even speak.

"I love you so much babe, and I can't lose you" he said. "I don't care if you cheated, I still love you" he continued.

"To prove to you how serious I am about you, I would like to introduce you to my father" Jake said and my heart skipped a beat. I was too busy staring at him in shock to notice we walked straight to Ethan.

Peeling my eyes away from Jake I looked forward to find Ethan standing in front of me.

"You must be Emily" Ethan said extending his hands to me, I looked down, trying to avoid his eyes but I could feel his heavy eyes on me.

"Have we met before?" Ethan asked.