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“Thank you so much for everything Katrina, I had the best time during these past weeks, do have a rest,”

He said as he dropped her off at her house, she looked so tired that he felt guilty for not letting her sleep last night, but he couldn’t be blamed, he wanted to have enough of her, now that they are back in New York, things will go back to normal and whatever happened in California and Arizona stays in both places, he had expected her to sleep during the flight back to New York but she had been awake the whole time and absorbed into her own world, and had not said anything to him throughout the flight.

“Thank you too, I had an amazing time,”

She said hugging him before she opened the car door to leave, he wanted to pull her back into the car and kiss her but he knew if he does that here in New York it will be different, whatever they had ended at the airport in Arizona, he should do well to remember that.

“Alright, I got to go, see you next week,”

He replied and zoomed off leaving her standing there, he missed her already, but he knew he would get over her in the next couple of days, he gave her the break but he needed the time off more, he needed the time to build back that only work-relationship.

“Back to normal life,”

He said as he droved into his apartment, he had an appointment later today but wanted to rest first, he missed Katrina already but he wasn’t going to change the rules, no, the last time he did, Loren had given him a pill too bitter for him to swallow, he had believed all her lies and almost made the mistake of marrying her, sex is good but not good enough for him to make the same mistake twice, especially not with Katrina, he needed her around him for work, she was good as his secretary and personal assistant but that’s where it ends, whatever they had during the last couple of weeks happened but it not gonna happen again, he just has to get rid of his wants for her.

Entering his apartment, he took a bath and went straight to bed, after tossing and turning for over an hour without getting any sleep, he decided it would be best if he just go for his appointment, he needed to get busy to get Katrina out of his head, he still has five days to do it and was sure by Monday when she finally resumes he would be over her.

*****

Katrina stared at loads of gift boxes in her room wondering what she would do with them, they were quite a lot of them, expensive perfumes, jewelries, and even frames, whoever it was must be super loaded because adding up everything here would amount to over two hundred thousand dollars, not like she was sure of the amount but she knew it would be close, if not more than.

“What the fuck am I supposed to do with all these Jord?”

“I already told you to keep them, you have a secret admirer and a rich one at that, I will enjoy this moment if I were you,”

Jordan replied laying lazily on her bed, he had come directly to her place from work.

Katrina had spent the whole of the afternoon catching up on lost sleep and had only woken up when Jordan had arrived about an hour ago, now she stood in her room looking at the numerous gifts her so-called ‘secret admirer’ had left behind, when she had come in earlier, she had been too tired to even care about the lots.

“Just be serious for once Jordan,”

She said throwing him a dirty look, he rolled his eyes in response.

“I already told you to keep it, it’s not every time that someone finds a rich admirer, what’s the harm? They are given to you, not as if you stole them. or if you don’t want, you can give them to me, I will use the perfumes, sell the jewelries, and the frames,”

“I hate you Jord,”

“I love you too, and you know, this is not what is important right now,”

“Really? Then what is important?”

“You, are you okay? I know that things with Lucas already ended,”

He said sitting up and staring at her, she was fine though, at least right now she didn’t feel all that much pain, they had ended the fling on a friendly note and even shared a hug before they parted ways, she didn’t know yet how it would be like working with him again, but right now, she was doing better than she expected, she missed his presence of course.

“Kat? Are you alright?”

Jordan asked, bringing her out of her thoughts.

“Yeah, I am fine,”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah, I had the best of time this past couple of weeks and yeah, I think I can move on from my feeling for Lucas now,”

She lied, she knew she can never get over how she felt for Lucas, he marked her for life, she wanted no one else and couldn’t imagine herself with anyone else, their last night in Arizona had been blissful and she still felt sore in some areas.

“Young lady?”

Jordan called snapping his fingers across her face.

“You are in la-la-la land right now? What are you thinking about?”

“About my time with Lucas,”

She answered.

“Ohhh, I don’t want details, so long as you had fun and you are okay,”

“Yeah, I am fine, at least for now,”

She added.

“Good, so back to these, what are you going to do?”

“I don’t know, it not like I know who they are from so that I can return them,”

“Have you considered calling the number that text you?”

“No, I didn’t think of that, maybe I should,”

“Yes, you should,”

He responded but even as she dialed the number she felt chills to her bones and wanted to end the call as it rang, she held her ground and waited for the person on the other line to answer but there was no response, the phone rang and hung up, she tried the number a few more times before giving up and looking up at Jordan who had been watching her the whole time.

“Maybe he is busy,”

“Yeah,”

She responded dropping her phone on the bed, she thought of what she would do with the gifts, she hasn’t even added the one at her parent’s house and it already looks this much, whoever it was must be obsessed with buying things because even with her love for shopping, she doesn’t do this much.

Her phone beeped and she picked it up and saw a text from the same number.

“Is it from the same number?”

Jordan asked with interest.

“Yes,”

Kat responded opening the text.

“What does it say,”

“I am not ready for a phone call with you yet baby girl, when I am, I will be the one to call you, love S,”

She read out loud.

“Okay, that’s creepy,”

“You see, this is why these gifts shouldn’t be here,”

“Hmm, why don’t you text him back?”

“Already doing that,”

She responded as she texted him a thank you for the present and that she didn’t want them and for him to come get them back if he doesn’t want to reveal who he was. He responded almost immediately making her frown.

“What did he say?”

“He said I should keep the gift and that I will get to meet him soon,”Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

“Mysterious,”

“Yeah,”

Katrina replied, she wanted to text him again but saw no point in it.

“I am just gonna load everything into the empty room and give it back to him when I do meet him, I am not interested,”

“Can I at least take another perfume? And the gold chain?”

Jordan asked.

“No, Jordan, you can get your stuff yourself,”

“I never said I can’t, but who doesn’t like free stuff?”

“Everyone does but it would be nice to know who or from where the free stuffs are coming from, don’t you think so?”

“Fine, keep them,”

He said getting up from the bed and making his way out of her room.

“Where are you going to?”

She called after him.

“To the kitchen, I need food,”

He replied and left.

She laid back on the bed staring at the ceilings, she had a five days break to get over her boss, she knew that was the reason for the break, he wanted them to reset, go back to how it was before they left New York, all she has to do was act like she used to, she had been in love with him going to four or five years now and had been able to hide how she felt, and act professional around him.

“That was before you slept with him,”

Whispered the voice in her head.

“It’s not really much of a big difference,”

She replied out loud.

“But it is,”

“No, it not,”

“Yea it is,”

“I just said it not, stop trying to ma***”

“Kat? Who are you talking to?”

Jordan asked walking into her room.

“No one,”

“Are you sure, because I could have sworn I heard you talking,”

“Yup,”

“Okay, come and eat,”

“So quick?”

“Yeah, I just had to reheat the leftover food in the fridge,”

“Alright,”

She replied as she got up from her bed, she had five days to herself, she would make use of it, visit her parents and maybe do a few window shopping and also some partying, she would face whatever comes when she gets back to work, she knew she can do it even though it would be hard to look at Lucas and not remember how he made her feel, all the things he did to her, and how he felt inside her, the thought of them making her hot already.

“Are you coming or not?”

Jordan called from the kitchen.

“Yeah, I am,”

She replied walking out of her room…