Aaron went away on a business trip for a week so I was left in the office taking phone calls and completing the daily paperwork. Ryan had stopped in everyday to get juicy gossip out of me but I wouldn't budge so he eventually gave up and just took to asking me about myself.
"Ryan you've been in here everyday and I have literally told you everything there is to know about me, what else could you possibly want to know?"
Ryan chewed on the end of his pen before answering, "I don't want anything I just came to tell you to be careful with Aaron, he sleeps with a lot of women and I don't want to see you hurt. You saw the way Trish was when she saw you two."
I hadn't thought about Trish in a very long time and just to hear her name gave me chills. I knew her status here at the company was better than mine but I was far from intimidated by her.
"You do know Aaron cheated on her and that's why she went away for a few months right?" I couldn't help but ask for more details about that and as soon as the words left my lips a knock was at the door. Nate was standing in the doorway with a stack of papers and entered closing the door behind him.
"I heard Aaron and cheat in the same sentence so I came to ease drop." Ryan gladly pulled up an empty chair and Nate sat down listening as Ryan retold the tale of events that unfolded between Aaron and Trish. My stomach did flips as he listed the name of female employees who had quit due to Aaron being "bored" with them.
"Ryan I have a hard time believing that Aaron would have a sexual relationship with that many women from his own company." Ryan came around my desk and typed into google Aarons company and an article appeared from a year ago about Aaron and his unnatural attraction to his employees.
"Believe me now?" Ryan sat back down with a look of triumph on his face as I read the article out loud to Nate.
As I was about to do some more digging there was another knock at the door, it was Jane and she had my sister in tow behind her. "Miss Jackson, you have a visitor who requested to speak with you urgently." she mouthed the word sorry and left.
"Gentlemen can you excuse me for a moment please." Ryan and Nate stood up to leave as Lydia entered my office looking annoyed as usual.
My office door closed as Lydia took the seat Ryan had been sitting in, "What you did last week was dangerous and childish Laina, dad wants an apology later tonight at dinner." She said that last part quickly as she started digging through her purse.
"Lydia you can not show up at my place of work making dumb ass request like that." Lydia smirked and look behind her at Aarons empty office. I knew what she was thinking, Aaron wasn't here to bud in and put her in her place like last time.
"Where's Prince Charming?"
"He's away on business right now, tell dad that his request has been denied and not to speak to me ever again."
Lydia glared at me realizing that i'd never agree to have dinnner with them. "You do this and we'll be gone for good Laina, please just do this one fucking thing."
I stared at her trying to keep myself from laughing at how pathetic the request was. "I'll come, when and where?"
Lydias face lit up with surprise as she grabbed a pen and sticky note off my desk and wrote down the address for a resturaunt nearby. She smiled one more time and without another word she left my office. Nate and Ryan came back into my office with lunch and questioned me about my sister.
"Moral of the story is that she's pregnant with my ex's baby and I currently hate her guts and could give two fucks about the baby."
Ryan was eating up the drama as Nate just stared at me looking concerned, I'm pretty sure he could tell there was more to the story than what I was letting on.
I was the last one to leave the office that night and just as I bid Harry the security gaurd goodnight someone linked their arm through mine and dragged me down the street away from my car.
I looked over and it was Trish, she was wearing a black trench coat and stilletos. "Don't worry i'm not going to hurt you Alaina."
"Trish what do you want?"
Trish stopped in front of a convenience store and put her hands in her pockets, "I'm going to make your life here in New York a living fucking hell Alaina, look across the street."
I looked behind me and saw Josh standing across the street next to a black sedan smiling. "You thought i was done? I am far from being done with you Alaina and with your ex on my side well I say my chances of screwing you over are pretty high."
Trish grabbed my hand and shoved a small box into it before crossing the street and getting into the sedan with josh. I watched as they drove away and opened the tiny box. Inside was my engagment ring I had tossed out of the window years ago while leaving maine.
What did this mean?