Chapter 70：Sneak Peek: The Hayes' Hearth

Ella Lattone's POV

Damn it!

I know who I saw when I was rounding around the quad as his figure was not one to distinguish. What was he doing here? Was he following me? I thought before I shook my mind at that notion.

My boss followed me across the country? Pfft, yeah right. That man was cold as ice.

But I know that hair everywhere or maybe I was mistaken for someone else. I don't know what to do but to hide but it would bring suspicious to everyone else.

"What are you doing?" Daisy asked me when she was looking at me strangely. I was smiling at her before she arched her eyebrow.

"Do you see that man over there? By the filling station?" I asked her as she turned to look around the corner that Hayes was still there. She nodded.

"Remember when I told you that I have a boss that was a stick in the mud?" I asked her before her eyes were wide.

"Wait, don't tell me, that's him? Whew, quite hot," she said as she was checking my boss. I gritted my teeth before I was shaking her.

"This is not the time to appreciate the male's body. He cannot be here. I thought he was in France for that conference meeting that he will be wanting to get some juicy detail," I said before Daisy was arching her eyebrow at me.

"Okay, first and foremost, you need to get out of that hiding spot," she said as she was dragging me out of the corner that I felt safe before she was glaring at me.

"Second, you go and say hi. Or maybe ask him what is he doing here? Out in NYC where he supposed to be in Seattle," Daisy said before she was pushing me to get to that icy man. Not in this lifetime.

"No, what are you doing? Are you insane? He is not friendly with me when we used to work together so I don't think he would appreciate being here and chatting with me, his employee," I hissed at Daisy before I can sense that she was rolling her eyes at me.

"Come on, Ella. You need to step up and you need to confront this devil of yours. Maybe he was not as cold as you think,"

"You want to bet?" I asked her before I was trying to stop her pushing me toward Hayes. I need to get out. Oh God! I cannot humiliate myself like this.

But of course, my luck was not on me today.

"Ella? Ella Lattone, is that you?" His sultry voice was coming into my eardrums like I was being caressed by it. I turned slowly as Daisy was arching her eyebrows at me before I glared at her. She rolled her eyes before I turned to look at Hayes. Cameron Hayes, the cold man of WWF.

Which happened to be my boss and my crush once upon a time.

"Hi, Mr. Hayes. Long time no see," I said as I was trying to be cheerful in my tone. I cringed at my attempt.

"If I recall, it was only a month. What are you doing here?" He asked as I was looking at Daisy before I was smiling at him.

"Well, I am pursuing my Ph.D. here. What about you?" I asked as I was smiling at him. He nodded.

"What a small world? I am doing the same thing as well. I hope to see you at one of my classes. We can be classmates from now on,"

"That would be lovely, Mr. Hayes," I said as I was smiling at him.

"Please, call me Cam. It seems that you and I will be the best of friends after all," he smirked at me before blood drained from my face.

I know my life was a series of unfortunate events. Why do I have to choose NYU where my other 3 best friends were studying. And why oh why that Cameron Hayes need to be here as well?

Not only he was my boss once upon a time, but he was also my bully.