"Your body is a sacred place, don't let evil souls get to it."

"M-Makayla?" His voice had gotten deeper over the years.

I felt frozen in place as I gulped, I wasn't expecting this to happen at all and now I don't know how to deal with it.

His brown hair had gotten a little longer than the last time I saw him, he grew out a clean cut beard. He also got way taller than high school. His eyes, the green eyes I once loved, stared at me in disbelief.

"I'm Lance, Makayla is here for business reasons as per Mr. Tasos request." Lance cleared his throat and stood up, his voice sounded so formal and polite.

He reached his hand out to shake Aiden's hand, I could tell Aiden was thinking who was he by the way he was raising his eyebrow.

"I'm Aiden. Are you Maika's assistant? Oh so Nathan sent you guys here." He chuckled, the sound I haven't heard in a long time.

Lance laughed even louder, it was definitely fake. I rolled my eyes, Lance always trying to have the upper hand.

"No, I'm her boyfriend, but I will be helping her with today's assessment." He said with a nice but sharp tone, I see Aiden's eyes pop wide open.

He shifted his eyes towards me and scrunched his eyebrows, he motioned for Lance to sit. He fixed his suit as he typed some things on his desktop and pulled up some files.

"Okay, so what is going on?" Aiden was staring at me, I was in complete shock still. I haven't seen him since the day I lost our child, I felt my stomach tie knots as I took a deep breath.

I felt Lance's hand on my knee, rubbing it to calm me down. I nodded to myself as I regained my composure.

"Today we'll be asking you about your latest projects, the statistics, all that stuff I'm sure you know."

"Well, we're currently working on how to expand the company in different countries. Starting by small offices and hopefully expanding to bigger ones in each city. We have a fund of 2.5 million dollars to expand to Toronto." Aiden was looking at the business proposal that he has made up.

"And what do you plan to do with the money that is invested? Have you guys scouted employees?" I look up at him as I see he's already staring intently at me.

He had a wrinkle on his forehead which meant he was deep in thought.

"There is already a employee list of 60 people and still looking considering this is a new project but it is going faster than normal. Many people are looking forward to work in your father's company Maika."

He stopped for a brief moment as he stared at me again, "As for the money invested, we plan to use the best technology and systems to help boost the sales and prevent any crashes from happening." His voice boasted confidence and pride.

"Are you going to transfer to the Toronto office?" I saw Lance smirk as I gasped. He gets so jealous it's crazy, I started to smile. I knew exactly why he was asking.

"I would be flying there often so no, I'm permanently here until I decide I want to transfer." Aiden eyed Lance as he shot him a dirty look.

These two could light a fire in Antarctica with the death stares going on.

Lance had a smug smirk on his face, "Oh that's too bad. I was hoping.. oops sorry I meant to keep that in my head." I slapped Lance's knee lightly as he held in a chuckle.

"That sounds so far so good. I'm sure you bring good things to the table. Send me the business proposals and the employee list as well as the other stuff." I write down my email on the back of his business card that was laying around the desk.

I spoke up again, "If there are any problems just send me an email and I'll try to help you."

He takes the business card as his fingers brush mine and I nearly drop my pen. Why?

I'm definitely over him. Is it just because I haven't seen him in awhile? I shook my head as I see him holding in a smile.

Lance pulled me close to him and whispered in my ear, "He's such a dick. I see him staring at you like you're his. Can we leave before I do things I will regret." I pulled away and nodded, I definitely don't want things to look bad.

"So if you don't need us anymore, we'll be leaving." Lance opened the door and just as we were about to get out, Aiden stopped us.

"Maika, can we meet for lunch in about an hour?" His eyes pleaded me to say yes as I looked at Lance.

He raised an eyebrow, "Is this business related?"
"N-no? I just thought her and I should talk." Aiden said with his back straightened. He stared Lance in the eye as I held Lance behind me.

"Sure, but Lance is coming with me." I was not about to go alone with Aiden, who knows what he was going to do or say.

"Why? Is he your puppy or something? You're not capable of going yourself?" I gave him a glare, why is he testing him?

"Because she's my girlfriend! Why would anyone let their GIRLFRIEND, go out with their EX who treated them like shit!" Lance held me close to him as I shoved my face into his arm.

Fuck.

This wasn't supposed to happen! I knew this wasn't going to end well as I pulled away from Lance speaking up.

"Okay Aiden you need to stop before shit gets bad. We're here for business only. I'm not interested in anything else." I said to him flatly as I saw his eyes get dark.

I'm not going to make Lance get into a fight with him because there's no reason to. Aiden was always like this, he would try to fight every chance he got.

Aiden grabbed my wrist, "Maika please, we need to talk. I miss you." His voice softened up as his grip was shaky.

"Please let go of me." I whispered lowly, I cannot deal with this right now. There isn't even anything to deal with in the first place. We're old news, the truth was laid out. What more was there to talk about?

Lance shoved Aiden back as he stumbled, "Stop harassing my girl. She told you no twice! A no is a no!" Lance pushed me lightly behind him as he stepped in front of Aiden.

"Get lost you shit. You probably don't have anything going for your life. If you even have one, I'm pretty sure you begged Maika to be with you." Aiden started laughing, I got furious.

Why is he talking like he's better than Lance?

"Lance treats me way better than you ever fucking would! He has everything going for his life too!" I shouted at him angrily which caused a few people to stop walking and stare at Aiden's door.

Before I even noticed, Lance had walked up to Aiden and socked him straight in the face. Stumbling back his nose started bleeding on impact.

"No! Lance come on don't listen to him!" I tried to pull him off me as he shrugged me off hard.

"I don't care what he says about me! He keeps disrespecting our relationship." Lance's voice was low and menacing. His eyes were filled with rage as he turned back to Aiden.

He tried to swing at Lance before he caught his fist and punched him again, hard in the cheek. He shoved him to his desk as he punched him again.

Stop.

I had to stop this, or Lance was going to get arrested.

I gently tugged on my boyfriend's blazer, my voice was pleading him, "Baby please, for me. Please just stop.." I put my hand under his jacket and on his back and I started to rub it up and down.

"But he fucking deserves it! After all he put you through! He was the reason for you losing Evan! He hurt you! He hurt my girl!" Lance shouted angrily as I froze.

"E-Evan?" Aiden froze as he stared at me. My eyes were starting to tear up as my vision fogged. I felt my breath get stuck in my throat as my breathing got shaky.

Lance stopped as soon as he noticed how I  was reacting.

He held me close to his chest as I heard security barge through the door and they grabbed Lance's arms. They didn't budge at all, his hold only tightened on me as I heard Aiden mutter a 'it's okay' to them as he said in a shaky voice.

"I'm so sorry Maika. I really am sorry for everything.. I didn't want things to go that way..."

I felt my feet in the air, Lance scooped me up bridal style. He kissed my forehead, his eyes were welling up in tears.

I shake my head wiping my stupid tears away, "Don't cry Lance.. I promise I'm okay. I just didn't want you to get hurt." My hand reached for his face as we got into the elevator.

I started rubbing his cheek in small circles as he close his eyes, causing tears to fall down his cheeks.

"I don't want anyone, disrespecting you. You're too special to me, you're too precious. It hurts me to see you like this." He kept leaning down to kiss me as I kissed back. I never saw this side of him before, it was sweet. He cared more about me than himself.

"Don't do that baby.. you have to take care of yourself too.. what would I do if they called the cops? And you get arrested for assault.." I shut my eyes not even wanting to think, I wouldn't want to lose him.

He smirked as he went back to his regular self, "I know you would never let anything happen to me princess. Your touch makes me calm down before it even reaches me."

I let out a stupid grin as I nodded. The tears have dried up as Lance and I were just looking at each other until the elevator stopped.

"You are so right. I'm glad you're here for me.." my stomach growled as my cheeks started to flush like a tomato.

"Let's pick up some food and head back to the hotel.. we can have a long nice bubble bath and then just relax." He winked at me as I felt his chest vibrate from his velvet laugh.

"Yes, a nice long nap is needed."

"Oh you'll have a nice long nap alright." I smacked his chest lightly as I gasped at him.

He grinned at me and I felt my heart exploding.

I'm happy.

I'm finally happy.

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