I Ran Away After Three Years as Stand in, CEO Went Mad Chapter 13

I Ran Away After Three Years as Stand in, CEO Went Mad Chapter 13

The event ended late. Declan specifically came to pick me up at the hotel

Good behavior. I’ll quietly give him a point.

At the hotel entrance,

1 pushed the door open hard.

I pushed it open hard a second time.

After the third push, I realized it was a revolving door.

I walked in like nothing happened.

Declan pressed his lips together to keep from laughing.

I fell into thought.

Just joking around.

Everything was under control.

But I wasn’t sure if Declan would get my brand of abstract humor.

I was afraid he’d actually think I was an idiot.

I updated my Instagram feed, which had been dead for a year..

I updated my Instagram feed, which had been dead for a year.

[PUSH THE DOOR OPEN! PUSH THE DOOR OPEN! PUSH THE DOOR OPEN! PUSH THE DOOR OPEN!

PUSH THE DOOR OPEN! After 99 pushes, I realized it was a revolving door)

A joke stops being funny once you explain it.

Declan commented: (It’s okay. You’re cute even when you’re being dumb ]

I stared at the screen, dead inside.

Damn it.

That night, I livestreamed while editing my vlog of the event

I wanted to cut in some scenery,

but the camera only caught people everywhere was packed.

Crowded as hell.

I chatted with my followers as I edited, and while I was at it, I cleared things up for Declan: “Mr

Thorne is my former boss. The stand-in thing was fake-a script. He’s not that kind of person.”

Modern CP-fan netizens only hear what they want to hear.

[Wait, Declan is your ex?]

I panicked. “No, he’s my boss.”

Someone pretended to mishear: [Not your ex? Your husband?]

I just stared at the screen, completely dead inside.

The more I explained, the worse it got.

Now I started to understand how the rumor about his cousin being “the one that got away” started.

I saw another piece of weird trivia.

[Fun fact: Declan Thorne is Sloane Hart’s ex.]

I thought that fun fact was half true.

There’s no “significant other” in the circle-only “arrangement.”

So I guess he could count as a former “arrangement.”

I stayed in Meadowbrook for a week, then started running around again.

Back when I was hiding from Declan, my IP changed every day, and there were a lot of places 1

hadn’t properly visited.

I planned a travel route.

Declan also planned a route to inspect his factories and branches.

Our routes overlapped for the most part.

How many companies and factories does that guy own?

I want to fight the rich.

I remembered back when I was Declan’s assistant,

he used to fly around with that higher-level male assistant.

Like a company-sponsored vacation.

I had too much education to become a SoundCloud rapper, but not nearly enough to be Declan’s

travel buddy.

So I just cried while running up and down twenty floors every day.

But now?

Now I flew everywhere too.

Declan and I spent more time together than apart. Our relationship was good.

Under the useless System’s watch, we made it official.

A hallucination of the System cried in my head, [How are you guys already together? According to

my playbook, the male lead was supposed to cough up a lung before winning you back.]

I said, [Coughing up a lung would literally kill someone.]

The System: [Look, healthy relationships are fine and all, but a messy, dramatic love story is way

more fun.]

I mentally flipped it off.