“Elvira, what are you talking about?!” He looked at me incredulously.
“I'm telling the truth!” I continued with fervor, oh, what did I have to lose? “I wake up and go to sleep thinking of you! I imagine you in my bed, how we spend our nights on the go! I want to be in your arms. I want to be more to you than a colleague and a subordinate. I can not live without you! I want to be your… lover… Yes, I agree with this humiliating state, just to be close to you.”
He listened to me attentively and just looked at me with his indifferent and chilling gaze.
He spoke again and his words sounded like lightning from heaven:
“I'm married and I love my wife. We are expecting a baby and I am happy with this woman. I don't need anyone else. Not you or any other woman. Except for my wife, I'm not interested. Forgive me.”
He walked away and headed for the door. At the door, he remembered me and asked:
“Are you going home?”
"No…" I answered simply, trying to hide my anger. My world was destroyed. For a long time I was sure that as soon as I opened up to him, he would immediately open up to me. But I was cruelly wrong!
He just went out, got in his car, and drove off. I was left alone with my thoughts. I constantly repeated his words in my head. I couldn't believe it, because everything was so good there in the restaurant! I thought he liked me!
But his words cut off my ears. I couldn’t remember how I got home, how I undressed and went to bed. But the next day I didn't go to work. I couldn't be with the man I loved and desired, after all his words. It was a real torment for me.
I didn’t understand what I was counting on? I was so dumb! I dreamed that he turned his attention to me!
Naturally, my absence from work was noted. It's true, not to Edward himself, but to our office manager, Alexandra. Oh, it would have been better if he called instead of her…
“Elvira?” I heard Alexandra's voice, in which there was suspicion, on the other side of the line. “Why aren't you at work?”
“Um, first of all hi.” I started in a weak voice. God, I didn't even have to pretend, I really felt very bad. “Second, I am sick and cannot work now.”
“Oh I see.” Alexandra said. “Well, Elvira, get well. The whole office is waiting for you.”
“Yes, of course,” I thought sarcastically, “the whole office is waiting! Everyone except Edward, damn it!”