Chapter 17

I had just sat down in the coffee shop when Gabrielle walked in. "Have you been waiting for long?" "No, I just arrived." Gabrielle studied me for a few seconds, and I could tell that she was debating whether to say something or not. "If you have something to say, just go ahead. We don't need to beat around the bush with each other," I told her. She sighed, as if she was worried about hurting my feelings. "When I went into the office to take the morning off, I heard from HR that Alicia is getting ready to start work at Millenia." I immediately understood why she had hesitated. Because of Alicia, I had spent the past few years of my married life as a joke. When she and I fell into the pool together, Jonathan had unhesitatingly gone to save her, and I had thus become gossip fodder for those in our circle. Now that Alicia was joining Millenia, it felt like a slap in the face. "Gabrielle, you don't need to keep track of what happens between the two of them in the future," I sai