Dirty Boss (An Office Romance) (The Maxwell Family) by Alycia Taylor

Author:Alycia Taylor [Taylor, Alycia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-16T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Shawn

I wasn’t sure what I was doing here. I didn’t want to be here. I knew that, but where I really wanted to be, I wasn’t welcome anymore, probably by anyone.

Therefore, I found myself here, on Dalilah’s front stoop, trying to think of reasons to get her to give me another chance, while also trying to escape another slap to the face.

Even though a few days had gone by, I was still fairly unsure of exactly what had happened that night.

There was definitely something going on between Valerie and I, but that was likely to never happen again. Then I was the one who Dalilah decided to stalk and I still ended up being the bad guy.

How did that work out?

I might not have been able to come up with any plausible answer, but still, after a few long days of the silent treatment, especially given my family situation, I could certainly use a friend. At this point, I cared very little about where that friend came from.

That was the ultimate decision that led me here.

My mother didn’t care about me and I couldn’t face Valerie, at least not yet and certainly not to talk about us, or me and Dalilah.

I felt similarly about my stepmother at the moment and so, that only left Dalilah; which was sad in and of itself, but at least I still had one person.

That is, if she ever answered the door.

I felt slightly impatient and antsy. I was scared that she would turn me away, just like everyone else had; and even she herself had a few days before, but in lieu of going crazy, I decided that I had to try.

I knocked on the door again and once more fell into my waiting stance. I shuffled the imaginary dirt with my foot and looked down a lot, trying my best to look sorry, just in case she was peering through the peephole, deliberating about answering the door.

She made me wait quite a while, but when she finally answered the door, her face was anything but pleasant. “What do you want?”

“Hi Dalilah…” I answered carefully, smiling disarmingly.

“What do you want?” she repeated brusquely.

“I want to talk to you.”

“About what? Because if you are not willing to talk to me about what really happened the other night, then I have no interest.”

I felt my shoulders lower and I sighed before I threw my hands out, unable to hide the fact that I was angry. “Really, Dalilah? Do we have to talk about this? Can’t we just forget it?”

“No,” she answered simply and moved to slam the door once again.

Without thinking, I put my hand in the way and stopped the door before I insisted toward her shocked expression, “Listen, absolutely nothing happened!”

“Then why won’t you just tell me?” she demanded, which caused me to sigh.

I realized then that if I was going to make this plan work, I was going to have to put aside my foolish sense of pride, which told me that

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