Evan's POV

Friday came almost instantly.

I had just come back into my office from the boardroom meeting and I was in the best of moods. The company had made a net profit of ten million dollars from the five companies we've invested in, taken over, and developed on a wider scale in the last six months.

I can give my employees a raise and a respectable bonus at the end of the year.

I sat down in my chair while my mind went back to last night's special episode in my bedroom at my family's house. I wanted more of that. I needed more of that. I missed her presence in the office but I wanted her to be with her mother. Her mom would be finally coming home from the hospital after a successful lung transplant surgery. I would tell her the truth very soon.

She needs to know that I paid for the surgery and the outstanding medical bills.

I took my cellphone out my pocket and dialed Jasmine's number. "Hi," I spoke up as she answered her phone.

"Hi, how are you?"

"I'm okay. Just came from the meeting and I'm missing you. What are you doing?"

"Getting ready to go meet my mother at the hospital. She's waiting to be discharged by the doctors now."

"Do you want me to come and get you? I can take you to the hospital."

"No no no, I'm not going to put you through that trouble. Stay at the office. I can handle this."

"Okay. I miss you."

"Miss you too."

"Call me when you get back?"

"Sure."

I ended the call and a smile came across my face.

"WE NEED TO TALK!" another voice blurted out, startling me and removing me from my mood, shaking Jasmine's images from my thoughts.

"What is it Jessica?" I asked.

"How can you do this to me, Evan? You're really going out with that assistant of yours while we're dating?" She walked up to my desk.

"Oh, is that what we're doing?" I asked.

"YES!" she hovered over my desk and gave me an awful look, making me laugh. "Am I funny to you Evan?"

"Yes you are," I answered.

"Eva--"

"Don't start this bullshit with me, Jessica. Today really isn't the day to get me on the other side. Which is the side you'll never like to see. You and I are not official, we never were. Maybe you let that ring go to your head, but that isn't an engagement ring, and you damn well know that. It's the ring you lost when I took you on the hiking trip eight years ago. I felt like it was my fault you lost it, and I promised to replace it, but when I actually wanted to you disappeared.

"I don't break my promises and I don't forget them; hence, the new and replaced ring on your finger. So you can stop pretending like we're engaged and we're a thing, because we're not. I found someone else."

A stack of papers met my face.

Did she just throw paper at me? That delusional nut job!

"YOU'RE NOT BREAKING UP WITH ME!" she screamed and sounded much like the others.

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