Chapter 11


    After settling down, Mandy offered to stay, but I rejected it as I want my space as much as I wanted her


    to be near me. I think it’s time to stand on my own with no one’s help, which was hard, but I coped up


    with it.


    The next instruction from dad was the hardest. Meeting Ryder. Forget about meeting him I couldn’t


    even get to see a glimpse of him. I tried many methods to find his number which I got through Mandy


    which was taught to her by her dad, Uncle Nick was also very good in coding seeing that my dad and


    he was not only best friends but childhood friends it was through them that Aunt Olivia Mandy’s mom


    and my mom became best friends. While I tried to get a glimpse of him, Mandy found his number.


    I got his number; I got to hear his voice which made me tear up again but remembering the task in


    hand I said Hello and he hung up on me. HE HUNG UP ON ME. Well, I forgot this is not my Ry we are


    talking about. I tried to call him again, but it said the device was switched off. I felt something ran down


    my face and when I touched it; I understood I was crying. Now I understood why Ry never hung up on


    me in the past, though I did it many times either to irk him or because of our stupid fights, IT


    FREAKING HURTS.


    I cried and cried the whole day and cooled myself down, but when Mandy came to the apartment; I


    started crying so badly that I felt like I would die I couldn’t even breathe which I understood muchter


    that I hyperventted if it wasn’t for her quick response I don’t even want to think about it. After crying


    the whole day Mandy took me out for a walk which really helped me a lot,ter when I came home did I


    find the boxes in my living and when I looked at Mandy, she said nothing but went straight to


    unpacking. Well, that’s Amanda for you, even if I say I don’t want her help she will make it seem like it


    is she who wants it though it is just because of stubbornness that I declined her help but in reality I


    needed her help. More like I wanted her to support me like always.


    So from then on she became my roommate. She was not only my roomie but my helper in investigation


    too, since I needed her to find the clues. She was the one who drove me to interview she was the one


    who calmed my nerves. I don’t know how will I ever repay her. The things she does for me mean the


    world to me, though it is what best friends more like sisters from another mother are for.


    The thing that made me more broken was the magazine I saw in the café next to our office building.


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    The magazine had a picture of Ry, though with excitement I took the magazine because of the shock I


    had to pay extra because of the cup I broke. It was a picture of Ryder and some model iming to be


    his one-night stand caught kissing in front of a 5-star hotel. It seems he has been doing this for


    sometime more like 2 years. This is the time during which I lost his contactpletely and was


    searching for him but didn’t get any news of his sudden disappearance. Seems like I was the only one


    loyal to our rtionship while he was fooling around with many girls with that I quickly got out of the


    café and went straight home. Luckily Amanda was there and after telling her what happened she told


    me to go into bath which was confusing but she pour sweet aromatic bubble bath and let me say


    nothing can rece a bubble bath with wine and sweet music in my case I wanted a depressing song


    and it was yed. I cried during theplete bath, but the pain was somehow lesspared to the


    time he hung up on me. Amanda called to my office and asked for a medical leave. Gone to work for


    only two days and already started asking for medical leave. But they were understanding by making me


    work two overtime.


    It was during these times; I met Cassy and Richard. First, I met Cassy as she was the one who showed


    me around the office and in within seconds we clicked we had so many simrities like our favourite


    shows friends and favourite character Damon Salvatore and us Mikaelson, what can I say they are


    hot!!! Then she made me and Richard meet though her n was for us to be in a rtionship I said I


    was not interested same as Richard as he recently had a heartbreak.


    Butter he started having a crush on me, I could see that, like, the way he got angry as other male


    colleagues came to talk to me. And I talked to him about it and said I am not interested in any


    rtionship, but then he was the one who suggested for ‘no strings attached’ rtionship.


    I shook my head, removing all the other thoughts from my head, and tried to focus on the job in hand.


    And that’s when my chief came barging into my office.


    “KATHERINEEEE,”