Rise Of The Disgraced Heir

Jas didn't stay for long, as soon as they were done having breakfast she told Ian and Camilla that she had an urgent family matter and couldn't be seen being dropped off by Ian.

So instead Ian called for a cab. She didn't want Ian accompanying her to the lobby either. Her excuse was that it was in case her family interrogated the driver.

Ian simply nodded and agreed, as things stood he was already suspicious of Jas and didn't want to spend more time than necessary with her. 

As she finally closed the door behind her Camilla gave Ian a suspicious look before finally asking him what was wrong.

"You better start explaining, that's your girlfriend and you asked me to lie to her." Camilla pointed out as a maid cleared the table.

Ian and Camilla knew that the staff at Solaire Towers could be trusted, Leon himself had told them that he was the one that ran all the background checks. 

Everyone was clean and everyone had no ill intentions. Plus they were getting paid quite an impressive amount to serve and keep quiet.

"I found Jas snooping around my room while I was in the shower." Ian said with a sigh as he shook his head.

"So?" Camilla asked as she continued to look at him as if he had gone crazy.

"You don't understand." Ian said as he shook his head.

"Don't all girlfriends snoop around their boyfriend's place, especially when said boyfriend has a hot female officemate living next door?" Camilla asked in a sarcastic tone as she laughed at Ian.

"It's not that." Ian hissed, he was already in a bad temper because of Jas, but Camilla kept pushing on his buttons making him angrier at her than he should be.

"Calm down." Camilla told him as she rolled her eyes. "Then what? What is it?" She asked.

"Jas wasn't trying to find out if I was cheating on her. She was trying to get information about work." Ian said in a raised tone, catching Camilla by surprise.

"What do you mean work? How do you know it was work information that she was after. You are doubting her too much." Camilla pointed out.

Ian was starting to get frustrated with his partner. She was the one that pointed out that Jas shouldn't be fake dating while they were still officially together, and now she was questioning how much he trusted Jas.

"Okay, let me tell you what I saw and heard." Ian said with a sigh as he realized that he needed to tell Camilla the details. 

"I'm all ears." Camilla said with a nod as she leaned forward ready to listen. 

"My phone was on the bed, which she quickly found by the way." Ian explained.

"Your personal phone?" Camilla asked to clarify.

"Yes, not the work phone. For some reason I decided to take that one with me to the shower which I normally don't do." Ian said. "She began scrolling through my phone and when she realized I had no work messages or emails there she got frustrated."

"Oh. . ." Camilla reacted as she realized how Ian had found out that Jas was indeed looking for work related information. 

"Yeah, oh." Ian said with a chuckle as he saw how Camilla was embarrassed for thinking that Ian was over reacting.

"So when she didn't find it in your phone, what did she do next?" Camilla asked.

"She searched my whole room, she opened all the closets, looked under everything!" Ian said as he raised his hands in disbelief. "As a matter of fact, she even found compartments that I didn't know about."

Camilla laughed at Ian's story and his expression. 

"I don't know if you should be mad or thankful." Camilla teased as she tried to calm Ian down and lighten the mood. She knew that they wouldn't get anywhere if Ian was mad.

"Of course I'm mad, anyway, when she couldn't find it she went to me while I was taking a shower. She pretended to have heard a phone ringing and told me that it wasn't my personal phone." Ian explained.

"What did you tell her?" Camilla asked.

"I told her that it might have been your phone." Ian said with a shrug.

"How could my phone be heard in your room? The walls of this building are way too thick, especially on our floor." Camilla pointed out.

"She doesn't know that." Ian confessed.

"Do you have any suspicions as to why she would try to find your work phone?" Camilla asked him.

"Well, there are a lot of possibilities, I don't want to think about them if we are being honest." Ian said with a frown. He hated the fact that he was now questioning his own girlfriend, but she gave him no choice.

The fact that she was searching for something in his room already planted a seed of distrust in him. And when he found out that she was now using him because of his job made him furious, at the same time it also hurt him.

He trusted her and now she was just using him.

"How are you holding up?" Camilla asked as she gave him a concerned look.

Ian couldn't help but smile, he was thankful that he now had friends like Camilla, Seth, John, and Leon. 

He felt he could trust them even if he hadn't known them for a long time yet.

"To be honest, I'm in pain." Ian said as he confessed to Camilla how he felt. "But I have to protect the company's interests first before I allow myself to fully feel that pain."

"Ian, we both know the boss and Marco won't accept this." Camilla reminded Ian. "You relax while I give Marco a call and tell him about your situation. Is there any particular reason she is most inclined to have for trying to get information about work from you?"

Ian nodded, he had already thought about this, as much as he hated to admit it he may have caused his own relationship to crack.

"What is it?" Camilla asked.

"I warned her not to stay too close to Mike, I told her that she was treading on dangerous waters just by being around him and that caused a fight." Ian confessed.

"Then we need to wrap this thing up with Mike before your girlfriend starts to get desperate." Camilla told Ian as she took out her phone and dialed Marco. 

"Stay, calm down, I'll update you." Camilla said as she walked out of the dining room and into Ian's office.