ARIANA
I had just finished my work and was ready to go home. I grabbed my bag and left the office. But Richard appeared from his room and stopped me at the door.
“Ariana,” Richard greeted casually.
“Well, what’s up, sir? I thought you went home.”
“Don’t be so formal when it’s just the two of us. Just call me by my name like you usually do when we’re at university.”
I just stared at Richard expressionlessly. “Didn’t you pretend not to know me from the start? Now you suddenly want us to be close? If there’s nothing to do, I’m going home now.”
When Elara introduced Richard as the new department head to me this afternoon, I was surprised to see him here. It turned out that Richard was pretending not to know me. So I just played along with his game.
I ignored and walked past him, still s
