Chapter thirty-six: What next?
O L I V I A
His eyes went wide with unexplainable panic. His next words seemed to tumble out of his mouth. "Are you breaking up with me?"
"What?" I frowned. "No."
"Oh, thank Christ," he muttered.
"Kaison," I said. "I'm serious."
He shook his head slightly. "Sorry. What is it?"
I folded my arms across my chest. "I think you know."
"The paparazzi?" He guessed. "I'm sorry about that. We're working on it."
"We?" I raised an eyebrow.
"Angeline and I," he explained. "Don't worry, your safety will not be compromised in any way."
My frown deepened.
"I wasn't even worried about that till now," I told him.
He smiled faintly. "What were you gonna say, then?"
"Kaison, you posted my picture on your public Instagram," I hinted slowly.
He nodded slowly. "I did."
Okay, changing tactics. Bye-bye, subtlety.
"Why wouldn't you run something as major as that by me?" I asked him.
"Um, you said you didn't want to be a part of this," he said with a frown. "I didn't want to bother you."
"I still don't want to be a part of it," I clarified. "But I would've appreciated a heads up. Better yet, my consent. Have you looked at your follower count recently? That was a big move."
"I . . . I'm sorry. I didn't think of it that way," he apologized. His eyebrows stayed puckered together. "Is that why you're home early?"
"Indirectly." I sighed, walking into the living room and sitting down on the sofa.
"Care to elaborate?" He asked, taking a seat next to me.
"I quit my job today," I told him.
" . . . what?"
"I quit my job, Kaison," I repeated. "Well, technically I got fired." I corrected. "Hun."
Never done, or been through this before.
"How?" He asked, evidently puzzled.
"An investor pulled out." I shrugged. "The company, being the small business it is, couldn't afford that. What's one employee next to a few million bucks?"
"Hold on a sec," he held his hand up, "What has that got to do with anything?"
"I'm getting to that," I told him almost scoldingly. "He withdrew because he didn't like how I was interfering with the Giants' star quarterback's life. Such a control freak. Did you read the latest articles? Apparently, they're all about how I have you around my little finger and manipulating you every step of the way, thereby leading the team to its impending doom."
"Idiots," he muttered.
I rolled my eyes in thorough agreement. "Tell me about it."
"If it helps, the team doesn't feel that way about you at all." He smiled.
I blinked in surprise. "Umhmm?"
"Yeah. We were thinking of meeting up this Wednesday. You can come if you're up for it."
Meet the team? It seemed a lot, especially knowing that they were basically his family at this point. With the media mangling my image in their eyes, did I want to really go and risk solidifying beliefs, even if they were false?
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ChickLit[Featured on @NA on 13th January 2023] [Featured on @WattpadRomanceIN on 25th May 2023] [Featured on @StoriesUndiscovered on 1st June 2022] completed | edited Olivia Davis and Kaison Jennings had been dating for three years. They were going stron...