CHAPTER 69: FRESH PAGE

From that day, I always feel like I'm in deep water. The air between Garren and me became more asphyxiating.

I might be the only one who thinks like that because he's still the same... minus the fact that he always does something that knocks me for six.

There's no morning that I don't find flowers in my doorway. Lilies, roses, chrysanthemums, lilacs—you name it, Garren has already given it to me. My room looks like a garden now.

But it's not just the mere reason why I've been feeling like a cat walking on a hot tin roof for the past three days. All the stolen gazes, the way he smiles and speaks to me, the way he treats me... everything that he does never fails to catch me off guard.

Needless to say, it has occurred to me numerous times to make him stop.

He's my boss and I'm his employee. Our relationship should be nothing more than that. I don't know what card this universe played to get us here.

But every time I think of doing that, there's this inexplicable feeling that stirs