I like you too.

"Hey..." Sofia was just telling Maya about Aiden and now, he called her.

When Sofia informed her about his family business, Maya noticed that she almost did not know anything about Aiden apart from how he used to work as a model.... She felt a bit empty. "What is this feeling!?" Maya thought to herself. After hearing his voice, she realized that he was affecting her way too much. Amongst all these thoughts only one word came out, and that was a dry 'hey'.

Aiden was taken aback from the dullness in her voice. "Is there something wrong?" He asked her.

"You are the one who called me and I should be the one to ask you. What's wrong? Why did you call me?" After collecting her thoughts Maya finally said in her usual bossy tone.

"Nothing much, just wanted to tell you that due to some emergency, I had to return back to my home. So right now I am in Capital city."

"When did you go back?" He was together with her just the previous night, and now he was gone? The Capital city was neighboring to Zed city, but still, it took at least one hour to reach there by flight.

"Yesterday night, I dropped you off and after some time I had to leave."

Maya felt frustrated for some reason.

First, she disliked the feeling of not knowing Aiden enough and now, she did not like that Aiden left without saying anything. But who were Aiden and her? They did not have any relationship between them, they were merely just acquaintances, weren't they?

After having such thoughts, Maya said, "Okay.... but why are you telling this to me!? I don't think that you have to tell me where you are, or when did you leave, I think the relationship we have is not-"

"I like you.... I like you Maya." Aiden said in a still and deep voice.

Aiden felt very hurt when Maya was going to say that there was nothing between them. He had liked her for so long, but she thought that they were merely just acquaintances?

But he could not blame her... after all, he never got the guts to go and confess to her. When he saw that she had gotten a boyfriend, he did not do anything and just watched her laugh with him and smile at him. He said to himself that she was happy with that guy, so why would she choose him.Saying that he backed out.

Only God knows how happy he was when he got to know that what kind of man that Lucas actually was. He felt angry at himself for enjoying Maya's sadness at the moment, but it meant that he could finally have a chance... A chance he had been waiting for since so long.

*beeep*

Suddenly the phone was cut.

"Crap! Did I make her angry?! Oh no!" Aiden did not know what he should do now. Should he call her back? But before he could call her, Ethan called him so he had to leave it for later.

.....

In the meantime Maya, who was supposedly 'angry' was actually blushing like a little girl!

When Aiden suddenly confessed to her, she had an urge to say 'I like you too.' But wait.... How!! How could she have that impulse to say something like this only after like, three days of meeting him again?!

How could she like someone so soon only few days after she broke up with someone she wanted to spend her life with!!?

Was she not being a too easy girl!? Did she not have any morals or what!?

Sofia, who had been completely forgotten about, smiled after seeing the changes in her sister's appearance. It was rare to see such innocent expressions on Maya. Sofia secretly left the place without disturbing Maya.

Maya who was in her own thoughts suddenly heard her phone ring again, thinking that it was Aiden, she picked it up and said in a shy voice, "Hello?"

"Who is this, with such a girly voice!?" Ashely thought to herself as she checked her phone to confirm that the person she had called was Maya only- "Yes it is Maya." She thought, "What's wrong with this girl's voice?"

Maya, who was expecting Aiden's voice from the other side suddenly woke up from her stupor when she heard Ashley's rude voice, "Hello!? Maya! Where are you, do you know that by now you should be in the office?! You made such an important announcement today, you should come even more earlier! Should you not!?"

"Oops! I am sorry Ashely!! I am on my way. Will be reaching there in thirty minutes!"

"Make it twenty! Come soon!" In front of others Ashely would always be respectful to Maya, but in private, she was just like an elder sister who always scolded her.

....

Maya entered the office building, the clacking of her heels was akin to the silencer that the noisy lobby needed. Everyone quietened down after seeing that she had come.

The step she had taken in the company was a huge one, she had clearly declared a war against Vice President Lucas by removing almost all of his supporters from the headquarters. Without saying anything, she had the upper hand right now.

The four important higher ups of the company were transferred to the Supreme Starlight branch offices which were not of that importance, out of four, two of those offices looked after the beauty products while other two belonged to searching talents, basically coaching of young talents. There location was also not very impressive.

Most of young people of the company, mainly the girls did not think that Maya did a good thing, they thought that she was becoming a bit too willful, trying to take everything in her power after 'cheating on Lucas'. But most of the older staff could tell that even though it was risky, Maya was not someone to make important decisions in a rash manner.

Suddenly amongst the quite crowd, few people said "Hey! Check out the forum! Looks like something interesting has been posted!!"

Even Maya was also interested to check it out, she planned to do it after reaching the office.... But now she could guess that it was something about her. Everyone's eyes were on her. They looked disgusted by it.