Chapter 287: Cold Stranger
Having been Derek Haven’s personal assistant and spending most of her time next to him. Emily was used to being overlooked. Derek was one of those charismatic people that just drew people’s eyes to themselves whenever they walked into a room.
It had never been something that Emily had minded. After all, she worked better in the shadows. But now things were different. From the moment that she had set foot at Haven Group, all eyes had been on her. Some people were openly gawking, while others were stealing quick glances, and then looking back to their friends. No one dared approach her.
They all just stood at a distance and watched. Emily even happened to make eye contact with Lucas. The man looking her up and down before huffing and walking away, if there was ever any indication that she looked good, then it was Lucas’s reaction. He could never stand it when somebody was more fashionable than him. Taking that confidence boost, and holding it close. Emily straightened her back even more adding a slight sway to her hips. "Isn’t that Emily Molson?"
"Wow!"
"She is the CEO’s former personal assistant. What is she doing here?" The people at Haven Group might have kept their distance, but their words were reaching her loud and clear. Pretending like she could not hear them, Emily kept on walking, trying to ignore how the word former had affected her. She had not expected it to hurt. It was true after all. She was no longer Derek’s PA.
In her case, former was not a bad thing to be. She was not only his former PA as the people around her knew. She was also his former girlfriend, and she was currently a woman on her way to cut the last ties to a world that would have led to nothing but heartache and pain, had she stayed.
The elevator ride up to the HR department was silent, but not because Emily was on her own.
There were quite a number of people who were in the elevator with her. But none of them said anything. No one daring to make a sound. The awkwardness so thick that Emily was certain that if she’d had a knife, she would have been able to cut into it.
Every single person in the elevator with her, was clearly dying to ask questions. But no one had the courage to say a thing. And for those who tried to gawk at her.Staring to the point that their eyes were beginning to make her feel uncomfortable. Emily put on her most arctic smile, looking at them until they found someplace else to stare.