Chapter 47: Chapter 47

Chapter Forty - Seven

Ava's POV

The moment I reached the office, I began contemplating my decision. Wondering if I even made the right decision to come back to this place again, less than work at this place. I paid the cab that had dropped me here and he saluted me and drove off.

I thought about going back and leaving this place altogether but then changed my mind. Honestly after hearing what Jasper thought of me, I should have even returned this place back but I knew better. I had already thought about it. I had to throw my resignation letter at Jasper's desk, had to say goodbye to all my fellow colleagues, and had to pack up all the stuff that I had left on my desk.

It was necessary to attend this day. Just this day. I could do it.

Making up my mind and with an over exaggerated sigh, I walked inside the building. I took the elevator and tapped my foot and waited for the elevator to reach my floor.

Today, when I angrily storde out of the house, I met Mark. He had looked at me with a confused look while glancing behind my back to check if there was a person or more specifically, Jasper coming behind my back. The expressions on his face seemed like he was weighing his options to open the door and letting me in versus waiting for Jasper to show up.

However, I did not gave him time to decide or act upon whatever he was thinking, and strode past him. He raised his hand to stop me, he even called out my name but I did not stop to listen to him neither I turned back. I just walked out their and left him alone standing in the parking lot.

*Ting.

The elevator opened. I did not even realise when I had leaned against the side of the elevator. Clenching my eyes shut and then reopening them, I walked out of the elevator. My mood was sour from the fight in the morning and I did not want to meet people but I had no choice at the moment.

Therefore, while trying to fight off a frown, I walked inside my office room. The moment I stepped inside the office, everyone came rushing in from all sides and in seconds I was cornered and surrounded by many employees that worked there.

I almost withdrew back from all the people coming to my face.

"Ava, are you okay?" Medaline asked me. I stared at her when another person, Lillith, came behind Madeline.

"Hey, are you okay? I heard about what happened yesterday?" She asked.

"Yeah, what happened?" Julia asked as she followed to Medaline's side.

They knew?

God, how fast does this news spread?

All of these people knew about it. How did they get to know about it? Huh?

They all stared at me, waiting for an answer. Some of them looked concerned and some of them looked just curious. Probably waiting to have something to gossip about. Because, this working place was boring without them.

"Guys ..." I sighed. Even though all these women were older than me, they seemed equals at the moment.

"Can we not talk about it, at the moment? I am not in to talk about that right now." I told them. Some employees, who were waiting for some sort of gossip, let out a groan and moved back, going back to their work. Some of them just shrugged and walked away.

Madeline, Lillith and Julia stayed though.

"Um ... okay?" Medaline said, sounding unsure. Maybe thinking that I wanted to talk about it but did not know how.

"You sure, you don't want to talk about it?" Julia asked me. I shrugged but nodded my head in agreement.

"Okay, fine. But it did happen, right?" Lillith questioned me curiously. Then her expression changed into a serious one when she saw the look on my face.

"I was just ..." She said but I cut her off.

"Yes. It did happen." I answered her sarcastically before walking away from them. I walked over to my seat and put my hand bag down as I took a seat. My face turned frowned.

I did not know why these people think that it was interesting thing to know that I was almost kidnapped with a knife at me side? How was it interesting to know that someone almost died? How was there traumatic experience was interesting for them.

Somebody tapped on my shoulder. I looked up to find Lillith standing beside me with a guilty expression on her face.

"I am sorry for what I just said and how I reacted right now." She apologised to me.

If my mood was not already spoiled with a fight with Jasper from the morning and an interrogation then maybe I would have forgiven Lillith. But I was just not in the mood to face anything from anyone at the moment. I was not in a mood to hear her apology as well. I did not want to deal with any of these.

"Leave me alone, Lillith." I told her before I turned around and began looking through the designs.

"But I ..." I heard her say. When I raised my head to see her, Medaline came to her side and slightly shook her head. Giving me a small smile, Madeline dragged Lillith away with her.

I sighed from inside.

Thank god.

Thank god, Medaline took Lillith. Nothing good would have come to my mouth at the moment. So, I was glad that she was taken away. She would not deserve the rudeness that I was capable of at the moment.

I knew that I had to tell them about my resignation today but with this mood, I did not think I could go on. I mean how possibly could I tell them that I might end up not showing my face from tomorrow and you would all be left wondering the reason behind it. Somewhere in my heart I knew that I did not want to break this news to these people. I was a coward and was trying to avoid the turmoil that might come after breaking the news.

They would ask questions that I might have answers for, but could not tell them. Therefore there was no use of telling them any of these. At least for the moment.

Anyway, today I had to wrap up all the work and complete any pending work that might be left undone if I didn't do it today. No matter what anyone would think about me, I loved the work that I did here. Over this short period of time, I came to like everything that I was doing. I had stayed true to my work up until now and I will be even if this was the last day of my work.

So, with thought, I began my work.

One by one, I picked up all the pending files and started working on finishing them. I separated the finished sketches to the half done and put them all in a single file.

I will do them after lunch.

For now, my focus was on the other projects that I was working on. Plus, I also had to do the fittings.

However, there was one thing that was important among them all.

My resignation letter.

I had to type it before anything else. I had to submit it at the end of the day. Therefore, I typed it the first thing before doing any other work. When it was done and printed, I placed it in my pocket with a sigh.

There it was done. I was really doing this at the end of the day.

With that being done, I first began working on the major tasks for the first moment.

I worked for hours and hours and hours.

That was until I heard my name being called.

"Ava White." Someone said my name out loud. I tore my eyes from the work and raised my head to see who was calling me.

A random man that I had never seen before. Raising my hand, I called out back.

"Here." I said, closing the file that now had been completed and stood up. I glanced at my wrist watch and saw that it was nearing lunch time.

Who was calling me at this time? My heartbeat picked up as I realised that it could be Charlotte who was calling me. I hope not. And what if it was Jasper who was calling me? No, that was not possible. We just had a fight and were not on speaking terms before that.

So, it must be Charlotte.

Damn it. I did not want to face her.

I contemplated all of my options for bailing Charlotte but none of them seemed to work. I was slowly dying inside. I walked outside the office and met the person.

"Is it Miss Charlotte calling for me?" I asked as soon as I stepped out of the door. That man gave me look that called me stupid. I could read their expressions.

"No. Our boss, Mr. Grey is calling for you. Charlotte madam had taken leave, for god knows how long." He answered me before walking away seeming unbothered and ignorant by my shocked expression.

Jasper was calling me? But why?

We just had a fight in the morning. Not to mention, I had told him that I will resign from his office. What could he be needing anymore? What? And why? I swear to god, this life did not get any easier, eh?

Everytime I think something will go my way, something completely different happens. Right now I was getting a feeling that something might go wrong today. I did not want to face it. And I could not even make an excuse to him today. Now could I deny him.

He was the boss, god damnit!

He owned this whole place.

What possibly could I actually do to stop meeting him?

Well, you know what? Screw it. I will go and meet him. Rest will be seen later.

Deciding that I will in fact go and meet him, I walked to the elevator and rode it to the top most floor. When I walked out of the place, I began noticing the thing that I did not before.

This place was the quieter among all the floors. Perhaps it was because there was nobody on this floor except, well, Jasper. He worked in this place alone in silence. There was a meeting room that was different from Jasper's office but it was not usually occupied.

Or was it?

I did not know since I only had the chance to come here for the third or fourth time. None of them were busy hours. Thus I could just speculate.

Finally, I reached Jasper's office door and was reminded of the last incident.

Jasper kissing Charlotte, yelling at me, looking at me with what I could only describe as anger and telling me to get out before even hearing a word from me. I remembered every single thing from that day. How could I not remember, anyway? That day was the Memorable for many things. And all for negative reasons.

Now, I stood in front of this door again. I remembered.

This time I Remembered to Knock on the door twice.

"Come in." Jasper's voice came from inside his office.

With my increased heartbeat, and cold sweat, I tapped his door once more before opening it. As the door swung open, it gave away the scene of Jasper being seated on his chair while slightly turning his face to see me.

His face gave a beat to see him there as my suppressed crush gave in, but in the next second I was reminded of the morning and all of the good happy feeling faded away. And all I was left with was sourness.

Jasper tilted his head.

"Come in, Ava. We have things to discuss."