5: Elise

I WAS shocked at first.

I had never seen him that angry with me or anyone else. In the back of my mind, I still wondered what he’d said to Shiela to make her look truly sickly and pitiful, even to me, after everything she had shouted at me out there.

But then I got very angry because I wasn’t the one who sneaked through professional security guards to get to someone who didn’t want to see me anymore.

I had to admit to the woman’s ingenuity. But she was still bat-crazy.

Who the hell would do what she just did if not a crazy person?

And then he tells me it was my fault?

“It’s my job to filter your guests when you are busy with something important,” I explained, but I was already scowling back at him.

“Your job isn’t to let anyone speak to you like that! You should have called me!”

“But Gian—”

“If you ever do that again, you’ll go back to your parents. You can’t cut it here!”

I was shocked.

Okay, so I was also a personal friend. I should have expected his anger.

But I didn’t expect