Trapped with a Lawyer

Ella's cell phone rang. It was a WeChat message from Samuel, "I'll eat out with my client later. Get something to eat by yourself."

With a sweet smile, she replied "OK."

On second thought, she texted, "Will you come back to the company in the afternoon?" If he came back, maybe they could get off work together this evening.

Before Samuel replied, something bad happened: the computer suddenly had a breakdown... Come on! The document with nearly 10, 000 words hadn't been saved yet! Ella anxiously checked the computer, wondering where the problem was.

"The power is off. Alas, let's go to have lunch!" Hearing the complaint of her colleague in front, she was dumbstruck.

Her cell phone rang, but she ignored it.

Come on, she could only type no more than 3,000 words per hour. It cost her nearly five hours to type 10, 000 words... She wanted to cry now.

Though sad, she decided to fill her belly.

She ate something in a restaurant and started to work again.

This time she became alert and saved every 1, 000 words. At over four p.m., Jenifer, the secretary of Catherine walked over, "Ella, Catherine asked me to fetch the printed data." Ella printed out the documents retyped and handed it to Jenifer.

After a short time, Jenifer returned and told her what Catherine said, "Ella, these documents are urgently needed, but you only typed 10, 000 words in one day. You have to work overtime!"

"I could have typed more, but the power was off at noon. I didn't save what I had typed, so it was so slow." Ella explained with embarrassment.

Jenifer looked at her doubtfully, "The power was off? Why wasn't it off in my office? Just admit that you haven't finished it. Don't make an excuse." She used to have a good impression on Ella, but it was gone completely now.

Ella could say nothing. Fine, she typed too slowly, so she shouldn't make an excuse but worked overtime!

She sat back in her chair and began to type another document.

It was getting dark. Other colleagues had got off work. Catherine turned off the lamp in her office and was about to go home. Seeing that Ella was still typing in the corner, she sneered. Being my secretary? She is asking for trouble!'

She had to work overtime due to power outage today. Tomorrow she would suffer in another way!

The normal time to get off work was 6 p.m. Ella worked overtime till 10 p.m., but she had just finished two documents.

She stood up to relieve the pain in her body and glanced around the office. She was the only one working overtime.

She decided to type the last document tomorrow. Anyway, she had worked overtime for four hours. Making up her mind, she packed up her things and left the office.

After getting on a taxi, she checked her cell phone. A message from Samuel was unread on WeChat.?He wouldn't return to the company today.

He didn't contact her though she hadn't returned to the apartment. Probably he hadn't gone home yet!

She ate something alone outside. On the way home, she wanted to make a call to Melody to listen to Jerry's voice. She looked at the time. It was past 11 p.m. Melody must have been asleep.

She put her cell phone back into the handbag. Suddenly, the man and the woman who embraced each other near the apartment caught her attention, because that man looked much like Samuel... She looked at them for one minute. They still embraced each other. She trembled out, "Samuel."

The man wanted to turn around upon hearing her voice, but the woman in his arms held his face and kissed him on tiptop.

Samuel and Emma.

She was very sure that they were Samuel and Emma. She was heartbroken, and the sweetness in her heart was gone. They began to pull each other. In the end, she walked by them and returned to the apartment. Her life was so peaceful and happy recently that she forgot there was a woman named Emma. She opened the window on the balcony. Samuel and Emma seemed to quarrel downstairs. She didn't want to look at them, so she took up her pajamas and went into the bathroom. When she came out of the bathroom, Samuel had taken off his coat and was leaning against the bed. She sat directly in front of the dresser, took away the shower cap and began to apply skin care products.

She didn't ask or say anything. She kept silent, which made Samuel a little irritated and guilty.

It took two or three minutes to apply those skin care products usually, but Ella spent nearly ten minutes tonight.

She didn't know how to face Samuel behind her, so she wanted to escape and go to bed after he went to the bathroom. However, Samuel didn't mean to get up.

Seeing that, she went to bed. After she covered herself with quilt to go sleep, Samuel moved closer.

He had a strong smell of alcohol and a touch of tobacco.

Samuel put his long arm on her waist and kissed her face. He seemed to want more....

"I'm tired today." She rejected him gently.

Samuel paused, looked at her as she kept her eyes closed, and explained, "She drank too much. It won't happen again."

She drank too much? Didn't he drink too much as well? If she didn't catch them just now, would some other things have happened?

"Oh, I see." Her voice was the same as usual, which didn't even reveal her feeling. This made Samuel very anxious.

He got up from the bed, took up his pajamas and went into the bathroom.

The door of the bathroom was closed. Ella's tears fell on the pillow.

When Samuel came out, she still laid in that position. Samuel took her in his arms, and she didn't reject it.

The next morning, when Ella's alarm clock rang, Samuel had been dressed and walked out of the cloakroom.

"I'll go for breakfast first. Let's go to work together later." He would make time to buy her a car.

Ella nodded and Samuel left the room.

Ella was still very sad about what happened last night, so they almost said nothing on the way.

Samuel felt guilty as Ella was depressed. He wanted to finish work early this evening and take her out to have dinner.

Upon seeing Ella on the 23rd floor, Jenifer said, "Ella, Catherine is calling you."

Although Jenifer also knew that Ella was Samuel's wife, Catherine said that Ella was just "the other woman." She used the baby in her stomach to take Samuel away?from Catherine's cousin Emma, so she was not worthy of being respected.

Jenifer quickly spread this in the company. ☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐☐