Why?

The next day Aileen made her way to the workplace after dropping her son at the kindergarten. She came a little earlier so that she could catch up with her work from yesterday. She doesn't like having workloads and so she started working the moment she arrived, buried with lots of emails to go through and reply to, she received a text. When she sent a text to Alan last night she didn't expect any response from him and that is why she went ahead and sent it but now that he actually replied she was nervous of opening it, since they met the man had nothing but a rude attitude towards her. She looked at her phone for a while and finally opened it some moments later.

Boss (I would've done that to anybody else so stop overthinking)

"Huh! Who said I was?" She scoffed, blaming herself for actually reading the damn text to start with. Why the hell did she pay her gratitude to that worthless being when there were many red flags stopping her? She knew this would've happened but still it made he