Jen

"Jennifer, this is the quotation you asked for?" I frown when I heard a voice of Stephny, clutching my pen to control my annoyance, I look at her sharply.

"How many times do I need to remind you Stephny, do not interject when I am working." Stephny seems taken aback with my rudeness, yet she manage polite smile on her face.

"I am sorry but you asked me to report you the quotation of..."

"Yes that was pretty one long hour ago, do you think I have all the time to wait for your report?" I cut her in between while putting my hand on the table with pointed look, I continue with coldness "You better concentrate on your work if you want to continue in Karen, we have more talented people out there who values time" The color drain from her face, good next time she better be fast at her work.

"A very good morning to you girls" Mrs. Karen announce her presence in loud professional voice.

"Stephny dear, can I have a moment with Jennifer" Mrs. Karen addressed Stephny sweetly, girl smile gently.

"Sure ma'am, it won't happen again, I am sorry Jennifer for the delay" before I could reply, Mrs Karen answered on my behalf.

"All cool Stephny, here Jenifer knows you are most talented girl in Karen, isn't it doll?" Not interested in the conversation, I just turn my gaze to my laptop assessing my new project while waiting for one more lecture of Mrs Karen on my attitude.

"Gosh, you could have given heart attack to poor Stephny" Folding her arms she raised her brow at me, not at all looking amused.

"Mrs. Karen, if you don't like my way of working, you can fire me anytime" Scowling to my direction, she sighed.

"Looking into your eyes is like looking straight into the pit of hell, sometimes I wonder how could be such angelic face has such a sharpen tongue like a knife" if I would have not in rotten mood, I could have laugh on her remarks. She is too funny.

"Thank you for a compliment Mrs. Karen"

"Doll, what on earth has gotten into you? You became more vicious and rude to the world since your last project" And that was enough for the day to me.

"Mrs. Karen" I hold my breath before I could do a serious damage to our relation, because I way too much respect her.

"Our project was not a total failure, accident happens." Her voice turns soft, caressing my cheeks she flash a gentle smile.

"We should be grateful to Ryan that he paid decent payment to us, even though his project didn't succeed as expected." The project reminded me of him, how could I explain Mrs. Karen, nothing good came out of our last project, offcource except the decent payment to our company.

"Can we stop talking about our last project, it's been a month Mrs. Karen, lets get over it" I swallow a dry lump in my throat and slowly got up.

"Yes, lets get over it doll" she challenge me to follow my own words, and hell if she is wrong.

The problem is my heart doesn't know how to get over Rick? He was on a hospital bed when I last met, I gulp down the painful knotblocking my throat. Seeing Mrs. Adam was the clear reminder of the reason why we parted our ways. I still remember, how badly I got affected with her presence and then the blood of Rick's in my hand caused me a severe panic attack, thank God Daniel was there to help me out. After Rick, Daniel witnessed the sight of my vulnerability. Embarrassed, hurt and confused, I run away from him. I couldn't sleep in the night thinking of him, our last interaction and how could I forget our intimate kiss. This agitate me how he still have a great hold on me, I restrain myself to have any contact with him and to my surprise he didn't try to contact me either.

I don't know how to cop again with this heart break, so I did what I can do the best is avoiding human connection, be ruthless and heartless, also Jenny rightly mentioned once a robotic person.

I hate weekend, chanting hundredth time in my head I busied myself in tiding my house. Once I got satisfied with my clean job, I hop onto my sofa to watch tv. While changing the channel, I saw a scene where a boy offering white lilies to girl, in response girl frown and guy asked which color she likes.

"Yellow" his favourite, a small smile curl onto my lips. How could a guy like yellow? There is nothing normal about Rick. I pray every day for his speedy recovery, he suffered a lot, I wish him all the happiness of the world. He would understand my reason for staying away from him but the question is why he didn't try to contact me, its not what I wanted yet its different from his nature. Unless, he is not well, my heart quicken of thinking that shit. God, stop thinking about him.

The days passed like this, I became more brutal and distant from the world, until a day I found my living nightmare in my office. He is standing by the cabin door watching me, the most despicable, cunning, at the same time magnetizing, handsome guy I have ever encountered. I look him up and down, he is well....actually more than well. His visit is unexpected, nobody dare to enter my cabin without permission, yet he is standing in all his glory. I am almost speechless with him, he is standing far yet I can feel electricity between us again, I don't know whether I am angry or happy to see him. It scares me not to be in control of my emotion around him.

"Hi, may I come in Ms. Davis" You are already in, I wanted to reply in my usual rude tone but I couldn't utter a word. Finding my discomfort, he looks at me with a huge smirk on his face. I am sure he is enjoying my despair. Men!

"Not happy to see me Ms. Davis...ohhh I am hurt" His voice is bitter and mocking, I don't understand his motive behind his visit, glue to my place my eyes transfixed at him.

"Rick" his name is the first thing which came out of my mouth, his eyes darken and his body tensed. Why is he behaving strange?

"Mr. Adam to you Ms. Davis" hell if his word doesn't stab my heart. His demeanour has changed, reminded me of the days back in the cottage, where he used to be like this...unapproachable and crude.

Gripping on my emotions, I stand on my feet, keeping my head high, I ask "Why are you here Mr. Adam?"

"I am here to talk business, can we sit for the discussion" he grab the chair to sit.

"Wait Mr. Adam, I don't recall to have any appointment with you, so no business talk, maybe next time when we have proper appointment schedule" if he thinks he can intimidate me, then he is so wrong. Although, his presence make my heart beat faster! My heart raced at the pleasure of simply being in His presence and by His side. Stupid thought.

The room felt silent, he studied her for a while, his gaze pin her to the spot before he makes himself comfortable on the chair.

"I don't need your appointment Ms. Davis, we paid the handsome of the amount on your blunder of the shit work." His tone angered me, how dare he to call my work shit? I wanted to so give him right back, he ignored my rage by continuing "It was done without my permission when I was in hospital. Oh, and for your information I got discharged before few weeks only" His accusing eyes interlocked with mine, he is hurt that I was not there for him. Guilt engross in me for leaving him in that state.

"Rick.." I whisper in low voice, his eyes enraged.

"I said Mr. Adam to you" Rick suddenly raised his voice as he thumped the table, I am stunned on his reaction.

"What are you trying to imply here? Our contract is finished, so leave." I couldn't stand on his rudeness and distant behaviour. My voice holds the same passion of anger.

"Finished, are we? Have you checked your contract clearly Ms. Davis, let me oblige you, if anything go wrong with your arrangement, our company have a right to sue you with huge amount" His words cause me a shiver to my body, he is clearly threatening to swipe out of the market as we are not in position to pay huge amount to him.

"Thankfully we did our work fine." I replied standing to his level, eye to eye, I rub my lips feeling little nervous, his fiery gaze momently stop on my lips and I feel butterfly in the pit of my stomach. He smiles walking close to me and I forgot to breath, remotely I walk backward. My back touch to the table before I could move to other side, his both hands caged me between him and table. His hand firmly holding the table, not touching me, yet he is way too close to me for my liking.

"You say it so innocently like you didn't have any hand in ruining our most precious project. Ms. Davis, you chose all the contractors and worked on security than how those guys entered in the party with weapons? I wonder if this has any involvement of yours, you know for nothing than just for your old revenge" His hot breath tickles my skin, I could feel the heat of his rage radiating from him and I started to get scared like I used to.

"You know very well that I don't have any involvement"

"Really?" he narrow his brows.

"Yes, because I am not Rick Adam, who loves Revenge game" I squealed back to him, his eyes become sad , dark pools, the feeling originate in his face.

"That old Rick Adam is back Ms. Davis who loves revenge game. Be ready to pay your part because this time I am not going to soften on you. Be warned this time" I gasped, because I could see the old ruthless Rick back, his breathing accelerate with rage, he closed his eyes to cool down and to my horror he closed our distance by putting his head on mine. I could feel his struggle, his inner fight and his sadness. What happened to him, I want to hold him tight in my arms and ask him the reason for his anger but I remain standoffish. Once he gains his breathing, he open his eyes which contain grief, his eyes pierced and burned into mine. He slowly cups my cheeks, the heat from his touch surge though my body, and I could feel the crazy world stop all around me. His intense eyes are doing something unimaginable things to me, if someone would have asked me my own name in that moment, I wouldn't have remembered it. Those beautiful blue eyes stares me, his soft eyes turn to dark suddenly, his rage build up once again and he grab the back of my neck and thrust his tongue deep inside my mouth when I gasped to his violent act, he is kissing me hungrily, showing his dominance. He pull away shoving me away from him, not before saying the hurtful words.

"From now on whatever will happen, its because of your own mistake."

My mind is totally numb, still recovering from what just happened, my legs give away and I just took the chair holding my tears as I feel again the same helpless Jen. I heard him cleaning his throat and I turn my eyes to his direction.

Standing near the door, he looks back to me. "Be ready for your next move Ms. Davis, you are running out of time." With that he bang the door shut on my face, leaving me shattered and confused.

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