Ariana quickly found an excuse to work off after a few cursory words with the girl.

The girl was visibly disappointed, and she had no choice but to return to her working station with the documents in her arms.

After returning to her office, Ariana drove all the gossip crap out of her mind and then set down to make a dating plan.

Although yesterday in front of Theodore, she looked confident, the reality was that she didn't have much experience in relationships. The only man she'd dated apart from Theodore was Jasper. She and Jasper were together only for a short time.

When Jasper went abroad, they had been in a long-distanced relationship for a while.