Love Slave to My Dev Chapter 193

193 Alone Together

“I’m sorry...it’s going to be another late night. You don’t have to wait for ...” I spoke on the phone.

“Hang in there. We’ve all been through it. Drink or eat sothing sweet...” Ace suggested as he tried to cheer

up in his own supportive way.

He was my boyfriend now, but it didn’t feel that way at all. We had almost no ti together now that just getting enough sleep was becoming a challenge in my daily life. Thankfully, we still had our weekends to ourselves, although I spent the majority of that ti catching up on my sleep and making sure that I ate properly. I wondered if Ace would break up with

if I didn’t find ti to spend with him soon.

We’ve been heading back separately for more than a week now and that ant that we’ve been sleeping separately as well. I preferred to travel back to my apartnt to get whatever rest that I could when I still had the ti while Ace stayed mostly at his place. Despite my personal struggles, the comrcial was progressing quite well. The production team was determined to finish shooting everything ahead of schedule so that we had more ti for revisions if needed.

I made a silent vow to myself that I would get off work early enough to spend so ti with Ace at his place this week. No matter what, I’m going to find a way to make it happen. Even if it was just for dinner, I wanted to spend so quality ti with him. Ace never complained about the fact that we hardly had any ti for each other. I didn’t know whether he was just understanding or if he was also very busy as well. Most likely, it was a combination of both.

Back then, I didn’t know that when the day ca when I got off work early, things wouldn’t quite go as I had expected.

...

“Why are you working extra hard today, Karina?” Jeremy asked teasingly.

I wasn’t surprised that he realized it. Nothing can slip by unnoticed when it ca to Jeremy, and I had been working with him for a while now that he was aware of how I normally operated.

.....

“I want to get off work early today. Wait, I don’t an like earlier than the official end of the working day, but you know, not like midnight...or after...” I admitted as I continued typing out the email that I needed to send.

“I get what you an. Maybe we try to aim for an early evening kind of hard stop today?” Jeremy suggested.

“Don’t we all need a break sotis?” I asked hopefully.

“Sure. This is a good day to have that break too. The eting with the production team is tomorrow so we have a bit of a breather today. After the eting tomorrow, things will pick up for us for sure,” Jeremy told

before he sighed.

Work had taken its toll on Jeremy as well and he looked visibly tired as his fatigue accumulated over the weeks. I didn’t even want to comnt on myself. For most days, I walked around looking and feeling like a ghost. The only person who seed to look presentable at all tis was Julianna and I had no idea how she managed to keep her eyelashes and hair curled perfectly every single day.

“Let’s stop chatting and get to work so we can et our hard stop. What about 8 PM?” I suggested before I smiled at Jeremy with pleading eyes.

“Make that 7:30 PM,” he replied before he walked away laughing.

7:30 PM it is!

By the ti that 7:30 PM ca along, I felt so exhausted and drained. Sprinting through the work saved up ti for sure but it drained out a lot of energy at a much faster rate as well. Regardless of the suffering that we went through, we made it in ti for our agreed hard stop at 7:30 PM.

Jeremy even went as far as to set the alarm at that ti and when the alarm went off, we both lifted our hands off of our keyboards and turned to smile knowingly at each other.

“I’m off!” I announced proudly as I stood up from my seat and began stuffing my things into my handbag.

“See you tomorrow!” Jeremy announced proudly to everyone.

He made it out of the door even before I could finish packing up. Honestly, I was impressed.

This was sort of like a surprise, so I didn’t tell Ace beforehand that I was planning to spend ti with him. The only challenge standing in my way was whether or not Ace was free. Being his personal secretary truly paid off at tis like this because I could check his schedule directly on my phone. I had no idea if he had other work but according to his schedule, his last eting already ended at around 6 PM.

I quickly made my way to his office where I was sure I would find out. Inviting him out to dinner might be good or maybe just heading to his place to spend so ti together would be great too. My lips curved into a wide smile as I made my way to his office. I think I haven’t smiled this carefreely in a long ti.

Wanting to surprise him, I decided to quietly slip into his office. Technically speaking, I also worked here so I didn’t think too badly of myself for not knocking. I didn’t see Ace right away because he was in his personal office. It was very quiet as I tiptoed toward his door.

“Ace...” I murmured softly as I slowly opened the door.

It was unlocked the door began opening when I pushed against it. I slowly peeked in while expecting to see the regular sight of Ace working at his table. I was partially right about him sitting behind his desk, but I was completely off about him working. Unless the definition of work had changed, and I wasn’t quite aware of it.

–To be continued...