CHAPTER 73

Leaked

Pov: Winston

Maddie was avoiding my gaze and i didn't know why.

It troubled me. It troubled me a whole lot than I was letting on.

She was walking at my side as we walked from the building where I just had a meeting with my board of investors and we were making our way to the car.

"What's next on my schedule?" I asked her as we got seated in the backseat of my Sedan.

I noticed that she pressed herself into a tiny little corner, leaving ample space between the both of us and pushed herself up against the door, her knees together, her fingers clenching her iPad in a tight grip.

I almost felt sorry for the poor device.

She sat up, almost as if she had been zapped by lightning, at the sound of my voice... Something she had been doing all day, sitting upright, standing straighter, clenching her stomach, fisting her hands... Almost like she was scared of me.

But i didn't understand, why would she be scared of m–

And then it all came coming back to me.

The night I had dropped her off a