The Truth

** ** Omniscient Narrator ** **

Maxwell Blackwood paces around in his office, work was over for the day but he couldn’t leave, he had been restless since Anna left. He tried hard to act like he didn’t care but it wasn’t working, he cared for her and he knew it.

But why couldn’t he just say it? Whether or not she had reasons to leave, maybe he could have persuaded her. Why did he let his pride get in the way?

Was it something he did? He doubted she was really quitting because of the conditions he had given to her at employment, but regardless of that, maybe he should have just taken off the conditions.

It is not like he had used her like any of his previous Assistants, he had turned them all to literal sex toys but with Anna, he always resisted. To think that she was the only one who he despised amongst them, yet somehow they had come to form this bond and he had grown affection for her.

Lately, he hadn’t even abused her in any way, except for a few mean words here and there but tha