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Chapter 16
Aurora
I stood there, in the hallway, all alone and rethinking the last fifteen minutes over and over again in my head. My heart hurt at the intensity of his words, and the truth behind them too. I was truly alone and miserable but what got to me was his insinuation that I was a ‘whore’, I made him believe that and now I had to live that lie, no matter what. I gave myself another five minutes to wallow before I straightened my back and walked towards the private elevator for Calloway Construction’s. When I looked at myself in the mirror attached to the elevator, I gasped.
I looked like a mess, my mascara was running down my cheeks, my lipstick was smudged and my eyes were puffy from all the crying, I had to make a pit stop at the washroom before I entered his office because I looked like the ‘definition of disaster’ in that moment. I was still wiping my face with a tissue when Bianca came to me with a hesitant look on her
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