Page 5 of Unforeseen Love

Sitting down on the closed toilet seat, I let out a huge sigh.

“Are you serious?” she asks.

I nod, even though she can’t see me. “Deadly.”

“Oh my God. Can he even do that? And why are you whispering?”

I take a small sip of my wine before answering. “Because I’m hiding in my bathroom. I wouldn’t put it past him to have his ear up against my bedroom door.”

She lets out a snort. “Someone’s paranoid.”

“Yeah, well, he’s an arsehole, who I now have to live with.”

I stick my middle finger up as if Theo can see me flipping him off.Wow, real mature, Sienna.

“And he can do that? Just move in?”

I drop my forehead into my free hand and, let out a groan. “Well, it sure looks like it. He’s my new boss, and Ewan is the one subletting it to me at a steal and is also Theo’s uncle, I might add.”

She lets out a low whistle. “Holy shit. Ewan is Theo’s uncle? That’s crazy. But is he really that bad? I mean, didn’t you once have a crush on him?”

I scrunch my nose up in disgust. “Eww, don’t remind me. And that ended the moment he started giving me trouble.”

“Oh, come on, maybe he’s a changed man?”

I take a moment to sip my wine before responding. “I very much doubt that. He called me Morticia, for crying out loud.”

The sound of her shuffling around piques my interest. “Anyway, enough about him. What are you doing?”

“Packing. I’m driving up to that cottage tomorrow.”

I stand up and stare at my reflection in the mirror. “I wish I was going with you,” I admit.

“Me too. You can always come up for a weekend. I’m there for a month.”

Now that sounds like a plan. “I’d like that. And in case I haven’t told you enough already, I’m so proud of you for leaving that place. I still can’t believe how they treated you after you gave them eight years of dedication. Oh, what I wouldn’t give to dish out the same to those girls and what they did to you.”

They were bullies, through and through––you’d think that shit ended in school, but it would appear it followed some into employment.

Quinn lets out a heavy sigh. “I feel the same, but evidently, my prior complaints of what they were doing weren’t enough to have them reprimanded. But it’s all good. I feel so much relief from leaving there. And it’s given me the push I needed to make a change in my life for the better.”

I can hear the truth in her words, and it makes my heart a little lighter knowing she’s away from there once and for all.

“I’m glad. You deserve to be happy.”

She’s a little breathless, and I hear the straining sound of a zip before she answers. I know she’s probably overpacking. “Thank you. I think this time away is just what the doctor ordered. Anyway, you can’t hide out in your bathroom forever. Don’t let him get to you.”

I cock an eyebrow at my reflection in the mirror. “Yeah, well, it’s kind of too late for that,” I say, bringing my glass to my lips. I down the rest of my wine.

“Well, take back control. Isn’t that what you’re always telling me?”

Trust her to throw back my own advice. Not many people have a way of riling me the way he does, and I hate that he knows it.

ChapterFour

Theo

“What the actual fuck?” I grumble into my pillow as the sound of roaring meets my ears.

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