Chapter 227: Sweet Self Betrayal
After making it through week number two. It would have been safer to go another week without seeing each other after hours. Doing that would have added an extra layer of security to them. The threat of being found out no longer feeling so ever present.
On Monday, despite being tired. Emily still believed that.
She got ready for work with every fiber in her being, believing that when she finally arrived at Haven Group headquarters and saw Derek, she would pull him aside and have a talk with him.
"Derek, I know that it is hard. But I think that it would be in our best interest to add one more week to our abstaining from each other,"
"That way, we will know for sure that your uncle has lost interest and is no longer searching for anything. Alright?" Emily had actually imagined herself saying those exact words. Her little speech ending with Derek looking over at her and nodding in agreement.
"You are absolutely right Emily. This is only a small bit of suffering. An insignificant amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Yes, let us stay away from each other for an extra week and then we can resume with our sleeping schedule later,"
That had been how Emily had thought, things would go. The two of them not at all swayed by emotions, and desires.
After seeing it all in her mind’s eye. Emily had firmly believed that things would work out like that. She had believed that as she made her way out of the apartment. Emily had kept believing it as she had boarded the bus. Even as she had sat next to a chatty old lady. Who had kept showing Emily pictures of her grandbabies.
Emily had continued to cling to the idea that her suggestion would work with a single-mindedness that would have made most people uncomfortable. When Emily finally got to work.