Chapter 48

MIA

|PRESENT DAY|

“Charlie will take care of the sales and the venue. Go home, MAE”

WITH A SCRUTINIZING LOOK, HER HANDS REACHED over to mine over her glass desk, running a creasing thumb on my palm.

I gave her a small tight smile. Work was the only thing keeping me sane and home well home was just one apartment filled with things Elise had bought over the past months and it didn’t really feel like home.

“Okay”, I said curtly, she stood up from her chair walking around her desk and leaning down to hug me.

“I’m not trying to get rid of you, you know that right? You deserve a break, sis. You need a break from all of this”

“I know”

And she was right.

Kissing the top of my head, her heels clicked against the floor as she went back to her seat.

Then with that business look she posed for magazines on many occasions, she leveled me with,

“I’ll see you later?”

“Yeah, and please make sure Charlie doesn’t mess this up”

“I will, take care”

Picking my bag from the seat opposite mine, I struggled