The City Held Its Silence byIrel Knx 239

239 Who did you call? 

“You said you wanted to speak with Mr Louis Carrington?” 

My eyes widened in shock. 

This was Louis‘ personal phone why was this person answering it? And a woman no 

less. 

“I’m sorry, but who are you?” That was all I could bring myself to ask. 

“Leigh–anne Sommers, his assistant,” she told me, she sounded young and well–spoken. 

A shiver ran down my spine. His assistant? Louis had a new assistant already. I supp I shouldn’t be surprised it had been two weeks already with no contact from me. Lo didn’t have to continue working so I couldn’t blame him, but still… 

“Ah, yes, I would like to speak with Mr Carrington,” I replied. 

“He’s in the middle of an important meeting right now and left his phone,” she told n “I answered to let you know this and call back later.” She replied in a sweet voice. My eyebrows scrunched up in suspicion. It still wasn’t her phone, so she had no business answering his personal calls. And anyway, I can’t call later. If he wasn’t available now, I wouldn’t be able to call back. I couldn’t believe this call had amounted to nothing. Now I wish I had tried to ask a colleague for one of the employees‘ phones and sent a message through them; I couldn’t message using a telephone. 

“Do you know when he’ll be done?” I asked. 

“I can’t say ma’am,” she told me. 

Then suddenly I realised where I recognised the voice from. That time when we went to the Carrington group HQ. The woman I had bumped into with the folders. Louis wife from my previous life. 

Goosebumps ran down my arms as I realised this. There was no way. But their voices sounded so similar. 

You’re telling me out of all the people that could have been Louis’s new assistant, his former wife was the one chosen. Fate had a funny way of working, didn’t it? 

Then suddenly the door to the office was tried. My eyes averted to it, and I saw the 

239 Who did you call? 

handle go up and down. Shit, I thought to myself. I had been found out. How long it been? 

It couldn’t have been more than 20 minutes since the time I got off the elevator. T were fast. I mean, there were cameras around the building. I shouldn’t be surprise I saw a figure outside the door. I saw the outline of shoes from underneath the doc frame. I could also see the outline of several other figures standing outside the gla office walls through the covered blinds. 

I continued to hold the phone to my ear. 

“The door’s locked,” I heard a voice say. 

Moments later, the door handle started again. This time with more force and vigour Time was almost up. “Mrs Acland, open up! We know you are inside!” I heard the voi say. That confirmed they knew I was inside. 

I swallowed hard as I contemplated what to do. This whole plan had failed. I knew I v going to get caught all along, but I thought that I would at least get to hear Louis‘ voi At least I would talk to him and explain my situation to him. I knew he had been calli me from what Keith had told me, so I wanted to reassure him. 

Now I wouldn’t be able to, and after this little stunt, I wasn’t sure if I would get anoth chance. Knowing Keith, I knew he was going to put even tighter restrictions on me. If could have heard Louis‘ voice or spoken to him, it would have made the restrictions a worth it. Meanwhile, Louis was going to be working with his former wife… 

“Ma’am?” I heard Leigh–Anne, 

I breathed into the phone, feeling overwhelmed. “Look, I won’t be able to call later. So just tell Mr Carrington that Jasmine called,” I said, 

“Okay…” Leigh–anne replied with a tone of unsurity. 

The door to the office was then suddenly banged into, making a loud noise which shocked me, and I looked at the door that was shaking. Looks like they were done trying the lock. They were going to open it by force. 

“Do you want to leave a message?” she asked. 

Bang. 

“Yes…” I started. 

< 

239 Who did you call? 

My eyes closed. Bang. 

“I want you to tell him,” I started, and then I heard a final bang and the door swung open. My eyes glanced at the doorway as the person I had been dreading came in. “–that I love him,” I finished off to Leigh–anne as my eyes made contact with Keith then put down the receiver of the telephone. God, how I wished it were Louis I had told this to. I didn’t know if Leigh–Anne would relay my message, but I just wanted say I love Louis, especially since I had no other way of communicating with him. I wanted him to know that. 

My gaze remained on Keith as he walked up to the desk. 

“Who was on the call?” His deep voice asked me calmly. Dangerously calm. His eyes had a dark, threatening look. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand. I didn’t answer him. 

However, I did my best not to cower in fear. He stood right beside me at the desk an brought his hands to the table with his body turned toward me. I looked up at him, maintaining eye contact, showing I wasn’t afraid of him. 

“Jasmine, who was on the call?” he asked again, his tone more intimidating. 

“Your mother,” I spat out in an insulting tone, confidently. I knew I said I was prepared to face the consequences once he caught me, but I wasn’t sure anymore. Especially since this whole thing had turned out to be for nothing. 

*** 

DO NOT READ 

He is extremely regretful of what happened between you two and wants to get everything back to how you were before. It’s only been two years since the situation