Caught!

ROSALINE

I was very busy at work. Though the leave had been an official leave and it had been properly filled in for, there was still a lot to do. The CEO and the manager being off work for a week had sure left its impacts.

For the past few hours, I had been busy with my head buried in work. I had attended two meetings and I had gone through loads of documents.

Taking a short break, I picked my phone up to play some relaxing music but decided against it as I thought of Russo. After he had answered me about his step sister, he had not said any other thing to me. Throughout the ride to work, he said nothing to me and I had remained quiet too. And we went out separate ways immediately we alighted from the car.

He had seemed suddenly distant and cold and I knew that was definitely because I had made him talk about a topic he had probably been burying for a long time. He probably didn't want to think about anything that had to do with his step sister but I had made him.

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