Love Slave to My Dev Chapter 163

163 Extre Regret

Sohow, I made it ho. I didn’t even rember how I made it ho after I had gotten into a cab. I’ll figure everything work-related out tomorrow. I’ll apply for sick leave or whatever was necessary later on. When I got ho, I realized that I had no mories of my ti in the cab at all. My thoughts were a jumbled ss and so were my emotions.

Thankfully, there were no reporters in front of my apartnt anymore since the press conference made the rumors about us die down. I managed to get into my apartnt before letting my body fall face first onto the bed. My entire body felt heavy as if it was made out of solid rocks.

“Mum?” I spoke through the phone while hating our much my voice broke and quivered.

“Rina? What’s wrong?” my mother asked in a panic.

She must have figured out that sothing was gravely wrong from my tone of voice. I wiped my tears from my cheek and eyes with my hand before taking in a deep breath. I’m such a ss and a failure for worrying my mother this way.

“Umm...I’m just calling you to tell you that I’ll be going back ho today. So, yea, see you soon...” I said while I tried to keep my voice steady.

That was only half of the truth. The other reason why I was calling was that I wanted to hear her voice. When things got difficult, it was always my mother who was always there to comfort

with her kind words or to tell

off with her harsh words until I found the light at the end of the tunnel again.

“I don’t know what is going on but I’m happy that you’re coming back ho, Rina,” my mother said in one of her gentlest tones.

“Thank you, mum...” I replied before hanging up.

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The sun had already set by the ti that I arrived at my mother’s place. From the ti that I dashed out of Ace’s office until that point in ti, he never tried to contact . There wasn’t a single miscall or text ssage from Ace on my phone. If I had to be honest, I would say that I didn’t expect him to suddenly disengage himself from my life like this. However, I had to say that this may prove to be for the better for both of us.

After all, what’s the point of going through all the ugly and emotional drama and argunt if we’re just going to end up going our separate ways anyways.

He’s still my boss at work and I still have to work with him as long as I’m still working at Jessen’s and Hill’s. Maybe I can request a transfer back to my old departnt. My old boss will probably take

back, although without grilling

for a good reason for my move back. I still wanted to work on Project Alpha till the very end, though. That may prove to be troubleso because that would an that I would have to see Ace everyday as the project’s supervisor.

Everything was so ssy and complicated.

I see. This is precisely why the company had put in place that ‘no dating between employees’ rule in the first place. Here we younger people all thought that the older people who put that rule in place were la and too conservative. Now, I guess I had grown older in a matter of hours because I was truly seeing the rit of having that rule in place. It was all to prevent young and stupid people like

from getting myself into this kind of damaging and career-limiting situations.

“Rina, you’re back...” my mother said when she answered the door.

“Hi, mum...” I said before trying my best to smile at her.

The mont that my mother opened the door to our apartnt for , the ugly voices inside of my head quietened. The tears that I had been holding back flooded my eyes and ran down my cheeks as I pulled my mother into a tight hug. I felt her arms around my body and then she began stroking my back just like she always did to comfort

whenever I got scared of upset as a child.

“Everything is going to be just fine, Rina...” she whispered to

comfortingly.

My mother being the understanding mother that she was, focused on feeding

so warm food without asking

any questions about why I had suddenly turned up in tears in front of her apartnt door. After trying my best to eat so of the food that she had prepared for , I realized that I wanted to tell her about my troubles. It may not solve anything at all, but I had made up my mind not to keep any secrets away from my mother anymore.

“Mum...” I called her na softly.

“Rina, you don’t have to talk about it if you don’t want to. No matter what, I’m always here for you,” my mother said before she smiled a little at .

Her hand reached out for mine from across the table and gave it a comforting squeeze. Her kindness only made more tears well up in my eyes. Why did the world outside have to be so tough and filled with wicked people? I wished that I could just hide in this little apartnt and live a quiet life with this special lady.

“Actually, I want to talk about it. Would you mind listening?” I asked in a small yet hopefully voice.

“Of course. If that is what you want...” my mother replied.

How do I even start telling her about what happened?

“Well, today the woman who was Ace’s secretary before I took the role ca to our office. She’s pregnant and she was there to demand for Ace to take responsibility...” I said before my voice started to crack and I had to take a pause.

My mother’s expression turned into one of extre shock. I must have had that expression on my face too earlier in the day when I found out. She was speechless and so I was for a while.

–To be continued...