Early Bird (Erkenci Kus)(Part 3)

93. Show how important I am

Emre walks to the door of his office and looks out. Shaking his head, he turns and walks over to the side door to look into Can's empty office then turns away again. He's been trying and failing to get hold of Aylin since Can left. "Damn you Aylin, I will find you," he grunts and lowers his phone to hang up. "You can run but how far? You won't get away. You won't," he scoffs darkly.

"Mr Emre?" Emre turns to Leyla standing in the door after a light knock. "Can we talk for a minute?"

"Of course, come in Leyla."

She nods and then closes the door, coming over with a worried expression. "What's going on? You said Mr Can fired Deren and I haven't been able to make sense of that. What happened exactly?"

"She showed Aylin the finished project. Like I said."

"Yes I remember."

"She made the mistake of trusting her and believing what she says."

"Just like you trusted her again despite everything she's done."

"What? I don't trust her. I stopped doing that a long time ago."

"That could be bad for you as a couple. How can you be with someone you don't trust?"

What is she talking about? "Leyla, I don't know what you're going on about, we're not a couple. I broke up with her months ago and I haven't looked back since."

Leyla's searches his eyes a moment and then blinks. "Oh." She frowns. "But Miss Aylin came to me and...She said that you two are together again but that you're hiding it from everyone because Mr Can..." Leyla trails off when Emre snorts. 

"And you believed her?" Emre pushes his tongue into his cheek and shakes his head disappointedly and turning away.

"Only because I saw you!" Leyla snaps and he stops to look at her. "I saw you right here in your office kissing. You were against this wall."

"Leyla, I've repeated myself to Aylin over and over, I told her that I don't love her. She's been trying to get me back yes, I'm not going to say other wise but I have been pushing her away because I - " He stops and looks at her closely, her eyes avoiding him more and more with each word like she felt guilty about something. "Is that - " he blinks. No... "Is that why you got engaged to Osman? Because you're mad at me?" She looks down with a frown at her hands. "I'm right aren't I? Tell me you didn't," he begs.

She looks back up, licking her lips and swallowing. "I - "

"Leyla?" The door opens and Osman comes in without knocking.

Leyla turns around and Emre's jaw clenches behind her along with his fists at his sides. "Osman?" she asks in surprise, her voice cracking slightly.

He comes closer to give her a kiss on the cheek and Emre turns away, working his jaw tightly so he'd calm down seeing this.

"Guliz told me you came in here."

Emre looks down at their hands for a second, then looks out the window, leaning on the back of his chair and rubbing his palms together.

"Are you okay?" Osman asks in concern.

"Sure," Leyla answers, her voice sounding anything but. "Actually," Leyla adds, knowing exactly that, "I'm not. Not really. Some pretty bad things are happening around here." She takes a deep breath and then smiles as best she could. "Why did you come?"

"I called but you didn't answer so I thought I'd come here. I wanted to see you."

"Oh, sorry about that, it's been very confusing. I couldn't even check my phone."