Enough Pretending

“Are you suddenly worried about your job security or something?” he asked teasingly before he chuckled.

“You know well enough that I don’t mean it like that…” I said before rolling my eyes at him.

Ace just laughed a little at my reaction. Although I was trying to be serious, Ace had no trouble finding some way to joke about it. I did realize that a part of why he was doing that was to make sure that I didn’t overly stress about things.

“Nothing major will happen. Everyone will panic to a certain degree but soon they will realize that whatever personal relationship that I have with Elizabeth isn’t going to impact their professional careers and lives at work. That’s just all there is to it. The merger will go on as planned and great things will happen now that the company is merged into a big, experienced, and well-equipped monster,” Ace announced quite proudly.

“I really hope that that will be the case. I think we’ve all had more than enough shock this year as employees of the compan