Tessa’s POV I felt sick to my stomach. I didn’t want to sit in this office any longer. She was now working on her computer, and I was frozen to the seat, staring at her with a dumbfounded expression on my face. She glanced at me with a frown. “You may leave now; I have some work to do. But thank you, Tessa, for speaking with me. I quite enjoyed this talk.” I still remained seated; I was unable to feel my body. It seemed as if Miss Emily was going to start pursing Joseph and she was warning me to stay away from him. But I couldn’t have understood that correctly. I never gave her a reason to believe there was anything going on between Joseph and me. Miss Emily was very beautiful; that was obvious from the moment I met her. But would Joseph really go for her? I felt my face flaring