Page 38 of My Hottest Obsession

The problem with that is that I have no idea how to go about doing that. I’m still not sure what went wrong.

Did she just get spooked? Did I take things too fast? Did I come on too intense? It was hard to hold myself back once she started letting me in. Did I mess everything up between us? Did I blow my chance with her?

I was hoping that she would still show up to work this morning. Like maybe she just wasn’t feeling well or thinking clearly last night, and she didn’t mean to quit. Part of me is hoping that this is all some bad dream, but it’s close to noon, and she’s still not here.

I stare at her empty desk, my broken heart cutting me up inside.

I canceled all of my meetings today or rescheduled them for next week. I’m hoping that I have things with Goldie figured out by then.

I stand and pace around my office. I’m trying to work through things in my head, but I just keep going in circles.

Everything was fine until she went out with her friends. Did something happen that night? Do her friends not approve of me? I doubt that. I’ve met Lottie before, and she seemed to like me.

I put my hands against the glass windows and hang my head. I need help. I’ll do anything to win Goldie back, but I’m not sure where to even start. None of my friends have any experience with dating or women, but I have no one else to turn to.

I hit the button to the elevator and then head up to Levi’s floor. Between the two of them, I think that Levi will have better advice. Theo isn’t much of a people person, and he’s never been interested in dating or the opposite sex. Well, except for Clara, but we’ve seen how that’s going so far.

Levi is in a meeting when I walk across his floor. His employees are busy in little groups all over the place. and I wave when Levi looks up and sees me. I point toward his office, and he nods.

I drop down into a chair across from his desk and sigh. My lack of sleep is starting to get caught up with me. I should go home and get some rest, and I will as soon as I come up with a plan to get Goldie back.

I stare off in a daze as I wait for Levi to finish up with his meeting. All I can picture is Goldie’s face when I left last night. She was obviously upset, and I could have sworn that it looked like her heart was breaking too. If that was true, though, then why would she break up with me? Why would she quit?

The door behind me opens, and I startle.

“Hey, sorry, I have meetings like all day,” Levi sighs as he takes a seat at his desk. “You look like shit.”

He looks concerned, and I try to smile.

“Goldie broke up with me last night,” I tell him.

“Shit,” he says, his face dropping.

“And she quit.”

“Fuck, man.”

He drags a hand down his face, and I nod.

“Yep.”

“Why? Did she tell you what’s going on?”

“No. She just kept saying that she couldn’t do this anymore. Then she quit and pushed me out of her apartment.”

“Well, she wasn’t feeling well. Maybe she just got overwhelmed. Maybe she felt like you were smothering her by calling and dropping by like that.”

“I guess, but she was weirdbeforethat,” I remind him. “She was acting all distant yesterday morning before she went home early.”

“Yeah,” he says, nodding as he thinks it over.

“Maybe she’s just scared? I mean, did you blurt out that you love her or something?”

“No, we never even had the exclusivity talk or whatever. I guess I just thought that it was implied by us spending every day together.”

“Maybe it’s the opposite? Maybe she got freaked out and was wondering what this thing between you was.”

“Maybe.”

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