Chapter 5
Carly sat on her seat, crying. It was all because of Tristan. Her anger was double sided. She was both angry at Tristan for stealing from her, and at Landon for saying those hurtful words to her.
After crying for a while, she decided to resume her work. She wasn't going to let Tristan pull her back from fulfilling her tech dreams by being on the bad side of her boss.
When she was done, she sent the files to be printed, and when they were printed, she went to grab them. She met the man she had beaten earlier.
"Hey, I'm sorry about earlier. I just had a few things in my head, and I tend to get emotional very easily." She apologized. "If it helps, I have a friend who's a lawyer, I can ask her to sue me for you."
The man chuckled. "It's alright. I'm Brian."
"Carly." She shook his good arm.
And after waiting a minute, she excused herself and left. When she arrived at Landon's office, she was caught between going in or waiting for him to come out.
Knowing he wasn't busy, she opened the door softly and closed it behind her. Then she turned to meet the shock of her life. Landon was standing there, shirtless, bending iron poles. She looked to the floor to see the already bent ones. Then, she watched him stab his arm with a pair of scissors. The documents in her hand fell to the floor. Landon turned abruptly, showing the wounded arm, with no injury on it.
"Y..y..you.. " she started moving back slowly. She was about to scream, but before she could, she felt a force clamp down on her mouth. Her eyes went wide open.
Landon had initially just wanted to shut her up, but when his lips came in contact with hers, he couldn't help the feeling that spread from his heart to his entire body. He closed his eyes to savor the feeling.
When he was done, he broke off. Carly opened her mouth to scream, but he kissed her again. Then she quietened. Landon left her slowly, watching her make sure she wasn't going to scream again.
Carly turned to check the arm, the blood was dried, but there was no injury again. She rubbed her eyes. Was she dreaming? She clearly saw him cut himself. She touched the arm, for any proof that she knew what she saw. The blood came off her hand. She rubbed the arm up and down.
"S..sir?" She stuttered. It was then she noticed how close he was to her. Then she also remembered the kiss. Her face burned hot, and she began to feel very hot.
"I.. feel hot." She whispered. She placed her hand on his chest to push him away.
"What? Why are you stuttering?" Landon chuckled.
Carly took deep breaths to calm herself down. She knew what she saw, but there was no injury there. So?
"You stabbed your arm!"
"No, I did not." Landon denied.
"I saw you-"
"Then where is the injury?" He asked. He knew it closed even before it bled, so there was no proof.
Carly stuttered a few times. She simply crouched down to gather the files that were scattered. Then she remembered the kiss.
"You kissed me."
"I did."
"Why?"
"You were about to scream and I hate noise." He shrugged. "Keep the files on the desk and you can leave."
"I'm not done talking to you, I still have questions-"
"Need I remind you, Ms. Carly, that I am the boss, and you are the employee?" Landon growled somewhat angrily.
He suddenly got mad, because he remembered she had a boyfriend. Perhaps that was why she was annoyed with the kiss. Did she think he made her cheat on her boyfriend? He remembered how they hugged the previous day, and his muscles became taut.
Carly placed the files on his desk, mumbled an apology, and left the office. Her eyes were already forming tears by the corner, and she blinked them back. 'Oh, why am I so emotional?' She scolded herself.
Soon, it was time to go home, Jasmine called to say she was downstairs. So, Carly packed her stuff and left the office.
Carly was quiet the entire journey home and didn't say anything when they got home. Jasmine understood that she was still sad about Tristan. She didn't know that Carly was just bothered about the kiss with her boss.
The following day, she arrived at work very early. She wanted to finish the rest of the documents she missed out on when she was being kissed and tossed aside by her boss.
While the man plagued her thoughts, he suddenly appeared behind her, and she jerked lightly. Landon noticed from the corner of his eyes, and he smirked.
"I will be having a visitor today." Was all he said before entering his office. Carly could tell he was mad at her for a reason, but she didn't even know what she did.
She ignored it and continued her work. Although she was still disturbed by the event in his office, she tried her best to concentrate on her work.
It was almost lunchtime when she heard the elevator ding, a sign that someone was there. Slowly, she looked up to see a lady walking towards her. The lady was beautiful and dressed so elegantly. She wore a dress that was tight so it showed all her curves, and Carly could feel a little angry.
"Hello, good morning. I'm here to see Landon." She said sweetly. Carly got even angrier with the way the lady called his name. She went ahead and mimicked her in her heart.
"Uhm, hi? Is he in?" The lady repeated. Carly regained herself, and let out a tight smile.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Good morning, he's in. I'll just call hi-"
"Oh, it's fine. He's expecting me, and even if he's not, he could never chase me." She even went ahead to giggle adorably. Everything she did simply made Carly pissed. She was jealous, yeah.