Chapter 76: Miss Miller and Mr. Walton: Round one
Things are back to normal.
Well, sort of.
It’s been a week since Levi dropped me off. Dad gave me a mini lecture — the classic worried-dad mode. I borrowed his phone to call Aria and explain everything in half-hysterical whispers. She freaked out. Cried. Threatened to come over. I told her not to — not because I didn’t want her there, but because I didn’t know how to explain it twice without mentally combusting.
And then the goons came. Scary looking men showed up at our gate
Bodyguards? Henchmen? I don’t know what to call them — they looked like they could skin me alive without blinking.
They handed over a sleek paper bag containing my purse, a single flower with a small note — Mr. Walton’s apologies — and a round box filled with a teddy bear and the most mouth-melting cookies I’ve ever tasted.
I didn’t know whether to laugh or throw it out the window.
Still don’t.
Now Mr. Walton is back to being... well, Mr. Walton. Just my boss. A jerk — but a distant, colder kind of jerk. Thank God he’s not being weird anymore. But if I hear "Miss Miller" one more time, I swear I’m going to toss a stapler at him. Miss Miller this, Miss Miller that. It’s every goddamn second. I feel like I could fry him on the spot.
Although the gesture he made with those gift and apolgy was cute. But was it effective? No
Just because he sent all that doesn’t mean I’ve forgiven him. Not even close.