I Deleted You Traitor Even My Blade Forgot Your Name novel Chapter 64

Chapter 6

The next day, Garrett suddenly made Tessa give a work report.

I’d done all the work for that section. Tessa stammered and couldn’t explain any of it.

“If you don’t even understand your own job responsibilities,” Garrett said flatly, “you don’t need to keep that seat.”

Everyone in the conference room went dead silent. No one dared breathe.

Tessa covered her mouth and ran out crying.

After the meeting, the break room on our floor was buzzing.

“God, the boss was in such a bad mood today.”

“Do you think the ‘boss’s wife‘ is getting dethroned?”

Everyone was chattering away.

I was making instant coffee when someone called me out.

“Chloe, why aren’t you saying anything?”

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“Honestly, you’re so tough. When Mr. Hale tore into you like that back then, you didn’t even cry!”

I really didn’t care about whatever was going on between the two of them.

But in a situation where everyone’s gossiping about the boss, staying silent means you’re “potentially disloyal“-and you become the target

So I played along.

“I’m just a grunt. How could I compare to the boss’s wife?”

“Couples fight, then make up in bed. That whole love–hate, will–they–won’t–they thing? That’s the ultimate office romance vibe

“Hey, quit poking me. Stop it.”

I steadied my ceramic mug and added:

They’re a perfect match. Honestly? I’m kind of shipping them now.”

That’s when I noticed the eerie silence in the break room.

looked up.

And locked eyes with-

Garrett’s ice–cold face.

Jnder everyone’s pitying stares, Garrett dragged ine up to the top floor, his expression dark.

The second I walked in, he wrapped his arms around me from behind

jumped.

Sarrett was usually so careful about this.

To keep our relationship secret, he always made me get out of the car two blocks early every morning

Chapter 6

But now his office door was wide open. He had seven assistants who could walk in at any moment

I scramdded to peth him off “Someone’s going to see!”

Garrett stared into my eyes again.

Like he was trying to dig something out of them.

After a long moment, he finally dropped his hand.

“Chise, there’s really nothing between me and Tessa.”

“Before-

Torget it. You can be mad if you want.”

“Ill prove it to you with my actions.”

I froze.

The promise I’d cried and begged for before we broke up–the one I never got–was suddenly being handed to me now.

But now?

My flight was in seven days.

I didn’t want anything anymore.

Honestly, from that day on, Garrett really became a completely different person.

He suddenly started reporting everything to me–even though I couldn’t care less.

He became obsessed with making me look at his face during sex.

But every time I did, he’d cover my eyes again.

Like a derailed train suddenly snapping back onto the tracks.

The hands of a dock. Our relationship. Everything seemed to rewind to before Tessa ever appeared.

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