Trapped by the Devil

‘Don’t play around with me…’

‘Hmm? Then you wouldn’t mind if I got serious about you, right?’

I gulped when I recalled his words. We did talk about this, but I honestly never thought…

It can’t be. What if he’s really serious?

Precisely because the thought never occurred to me, I never thought about what I would do if that really happened or how I would feel. What should I do? What do I want to do?

“It doesn’t matter whether you’re serious or not. As long as you’re my boss, we can’t have a real relationship,” I stated my conclusion matter-of-factly before getting up from my seat.

To my surprise, Ace didn’t press me on the matter. Once again, too many problematic things were happening at the same time, and I was struggling to keep the pieces of my life together. Although we somehow managed to navigate the issue with Kyle’s information leak, now we had another matter to settle.

This time things seemed a lot more complicated. Never mind the seriousness of our relationship for now, o