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The Symptoms

Author: Simone M.
last update Last Updated: 2023-03-06 08:35:08

“What are you doing here, Chloe?”

Chloe let out a soft chuckle. “Are you really questioning me about that? Of course, I am visiting my fiance,” she replied as she sat on the side of Helios’s desk.

Helios stopped tapping the keyboard and met Chloe’s gaze.

“We’re not yet engaged–”

“Yeah, because you’re prolonging it,” she interrupted. She raised her left hand and stared at her fingernails.

“Call off the engagement. I am not interested,” Helios said, but Chloe just laughed and tapped his table.

“I can’t do anything about that. Don Lincoln, your father, already set everything.”

Helios clenched his fist and moved his swivel chair backward. “I will talk to him.”

Chloe stood up and crossed her arms in front of her chest. “Try it if you can.”

“You knew that I love someone else–”

“But Zoe doesn’t love you, babe. But I do. She dumped you, right?”

Helios frowned. It seems like Chloe is different at this moment. She used to admire Zoe.

“Isn’t you wanted Zoe–”

“Yes, not until I find out that she’
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