Love Slave to My Devil CEO Boss R18

Chapter 429  One of His Women

Of course, I did whatever I could to be careful when I was around Jeremy and the rest of my colleagues so that they wouldn’t even suspect that I was dating Ace. I wouldn’t go as far as to think that I did the perfect job regarding that, but I still thought that I did a decent job. The way Jeremy was staring a little coldly at me was enough to tell me that he was not at all convinced of my acting.

“Of course, he’s related to this…” Jeremy said as he implored with his eyes for me to make a confession.

The answer was simple. There was no way that I would ever confess to anything.

“I’m sorry but I really don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said while trying to stop my voice from shaking.

By that time, I had already broken into cold sweat of nervousness. I felt like a criminal that had been cornered by the police and was about to be dragged off to prison without a route of escape. The only thing that I could do was deny and deny and then deny again all of my crimes. Acting like I had no clue what he was talking about seemed like the best option.

“Really?” Jeremy asked with a look of curiosity on his face.

“Yup. Really…” I replied before smiling a little at him.

“Karina, aren’t you dating Ace?” he asked before his eyes narrowed dangerously at me.

Although I knew that he suspected that something was going on between Ace and me, I hadn’t thought that he would be that confident. The way he looked at me and the tone of his voice told me that he knew something and that his question wasn’t truly a question.

“I don’t…” I began saying before my words died on my lips.

He knew.

No matter what I say to him right now, Jeremy won’t believe a word of it.

I had no idea how he found out or where I messed up but at that moment, I was certain that he knew that Ace and I were a couple. Despite that, he still confessed to me.

Why?

“You’re not very good at keeping secrets and you’re not very good at lying either,” Jeremy said before showing me another smile.

My entire body felt like it had frozen over, and the restaurant suddenly felt very cold. To my utter relief, after darting my eyes around the restaurant, no one seemed to have overheard our conversation. Dating Ace wasn’t something that I could confess to.

“I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about. The CEO is dating Elizabeth Chase. You should already know this because it was all over the news recently,” I pointed out while trying to sound confident.

Jeremy seemed to ponder something for a moment before he shook his head a little at me. Everything was moving along so fast and in the wrong direction that I was so confused, and my fear had started taking over.

“Exactly and that is why I don’t know how you can live with having a relationship with Ace when you know that he’s not even serious about you. Are you seriously fine with being just one of his women?” Jeremy replied with clear frustration.

My mouth hung open in shock. The picture that Jeremy had of me in his head was just too complicated and also degrading that I didn’t know how to deal with it.

“It’s not true. I’m just Ace’s secretary and I would appreciate it if you would show me the respect that I deserve. This is all just a big misunderstanding. I am not dating Ace and I would never date a guy who already has a girlfriend,” I said through gritted teeth.

I could hear the anger and the hurt in my voice, but they couldn’t truly express just how furious I was at that moment. It felt like there was nothing for me to say anymore. My hands moved rapidly to take out my wallet from my bag so that I could pay for my share of the meal.

“Karina…” Jeremy called my name with worry.

“You’ve got it all wrong. I am not dating Ace. I’m going home…” I said coldly as I placed some banknotes on the table that should more than cover my share of the meal.

Running away seemed like the best option at the time because it meant that I no longer needed to deal with Jeremy or his offensive words. I wished that our conversation would have ended on a better note, but I was frankly too angry to care about much at that point. I just needed to get out of there before I started yelling at Jeremy for him to take back his words.

Jeremy stood up from his seat when I quickly got out of mine. It looked like he was about to stop me from leaving but after I shot him a sharp stare, he willingly backed away. I would have screamed and caused a scene had he tried to touch me, so I was thankful that all he did was watch me leave silently. I had thought that being summoned by the disciplinary committee was already the worst thing that could happen to me on that day, who would have thought that my day could have gotten even worse.

…

After almost running out of the restaurant, my mind was in such a mess that I didn’t quite remember the journey back to my place. I was already standing in front of my apartment building when I realized that I never got the chance to give Ace a call. The talk that I had with Jeremy shocked me on multiple levels starting from his sudden confession that he has feelings for me and then his accusation that I was dating Ace. The difficult part was that his accusation was spot on correct.

Hell…

I was walking along the hallway that led to the door of my room when I pulled out my mobile phone to check. Time had flown by while I was with Jeremy at the restaurant also the conversation that we had felt like it lasted forever.

--To be continued…