Chapter 284: Missing In Places
Going into the third week without Emily as his personal assistant. Derek could well and truly say that he was not okay at all. It was eating at him, missing her made even worse by the fact that he could not even tell anyone that he was missing Emily.
As far as the rest of the world was concerned. Emily Molson had just been Derek Haven’s PA, and upon her departure she had been replaced by yet another PA. One employee replaced by another new employee. That was all it was to them.
Derek wanted to scream at all of them, to tell them how wrong they were.
It had not just been replacing one PA with another. Derek had lost a piece of himself.
He and Emily had been together for so long, first as boss and personal assistant, and then as girlfriend and boyfriend, that he had no idea how to function without her by his side.
Sometimes when the insomnia got too much and Derek began to hallucinate.He would look into a mirror, and swear that there were actual chunks missing from him. Blackholes all over his body.
All of the areas that Emily used to fill with just her presence alone, left empty. But then Derek would blink, look over at himself again, and he would see nothing but whole flesh, his skin unblemished. The well-polished facade that he presented to the world staring back at him.
The Derek Haven that almost everyone wanted to be.
From an early age Derek had always known that people envied him. That they wanted what he had, the money, the power, the status. Things that had been his from birth simply because of the name that came after his first name.