Hey darlingz! This is an incredibly short update, I know... but I should be uploading another one later today :)
I'm sorry for not having updated the last couple of days, the internet in the cabin has been even worse.

Have a great day! xoxo

CHAPTER 10

The next couple of days went by in a blur of emotions.
Whenever I wasn't pretending to be working, I tried to sleep.

Because she surely wasn't giving me any meaningful work to do. I guess she wanted me to think of her. But I didn't.
I actively thought of anything but her. And I felt so horribly numb during those days.

She did call me into her office a couple of times but anytime she would ask me something inappropriate I would just ignore it and leave.
There wasn't anything she could do about it anyway. She could fire me, yes. But she wouldn't. I'd come to realize that.
She was less tough than she'd liked people to believe. I had her figured out and she was a lot less scary now…

Or intimidating.

Hell, I wasn't doing anything useful around the firm and she kept me around.

Maybe because she was hopeful that I would come back crawling towards her, beg her for attention…

But she'd lost it. Something inside of me had snapped.
And I think that she was slowly but surely coming to realize it.

She'd tried to call me too. I didn't pick up.

Except for that one time.

"Emma."
She'd said in surprise because she hadn't actually expected me to answer the call.

"Miss Mills." I sighed in a strained voice.

"How are you?" she warily asked me.
For a moment there… I was taken aback because of how genuine and sweet she'd sounded.
But then I remembered how all she really desired was to humiliate me,
to have me feel extremely uncomfortable and that was something that I really couldn't handle.

"What do you want?" I snapped.

"Just to know how you are." She quickly said, seemingly afraid that I would end the call before she'd find out.

"I'm fine, Regina." It was my turn to sigh.
And then I realized my mistake of using her name.
It probably must have given her some sort of hope.

"Can we… do you have time to talk?" She carefully asked me.

I shook my head, even though she couldn't see it.
I definitely was not going to do this.

"I don't think there's anything for us to talk about. I'm sorry I gotta go."

"Oh." She said in a very very small voice.

"Bye."

"Emma hold on."

I didn't. I had to let go. I ended the call and whatever we'd had.

Don't worry... it's always darkest before the dawn.

NEXT UP: The last chapter before the change of POV :)