Chapter 31 Damn her boyfriend!

(Damn her boyfriend!)

‘Jacob Hempstead'

‘Pardon'

‘Jacob Hempstead', he said drily, ‘He's your boyfriend right?'.

‘Yes sir'

‘When?'

‘Sir??'

‘When did you both get together?'

‘A week ago I guess. I'm not really counting'.

‘Ohh'

‘Yeah'.

Silence ensued. Kathleen watched their somewhat okay conversation die down into a depressingly awkward silence which she found torturing. He didn't look thrilled that she had a boyfriend, why would he care anyway it wasn't like he gave two hoots about her right? or maybe he did care about her considering his drunken confession about being sorry for treating her like crap, or maybe she was just overthinking and he didn't really care.

All these thoughts wavered around her head meanwhile Grayson was fuming on the inside. She had a boyfriend, for over a week and he didn't know? of course he knew Jacob Hempstead took a great liking to his assistant and after all the failed efforts to sabotage the relationship he came out triumphant—Grayon loathed that, he desp