EDENI had to stop the car at the side of the road and turn around properly to talk to her.“What did you say?” I wanted to make sure I had heard her correctly.“Roman." She looked at me with her wide beautiful eyes and I wondered if I should be angry at her.“You can't talk to him anymore. He's not a good person."I knew that was low and I knew I shouldn't be saying bad things about him but I had no other choice. Since I couldn't tell her that they were father and daughter, I had to tell her anything I knew would scare her off.Or so I thought.“He’s a good person, mummy. He always brings me chocolates and flowers and asks me how my day is going.”Always?! I'm sorry, always?!“Since when have you been seeing him? I mean, since when has he been coming around?"She placed her hand on her chin and looked outside the window.“Um, since I came back home.”Bloody freaking hell. That bloody bastard has been going behind my back to see my daughter, making me think that he was finally out of
EDEN“What have you decided?”I stood before the CEO, staring him dead in the eye while my heart and insides were shaking to death. He was giving me a death glare, one that would make me melt if not for the fact that there was a lady sitting in front of him.She has given me a once over when I first walked in, it wasn't a very nice look though. I could see that she was tall even while she sat, her long legs poked out of her short skirt and she constantly flipped her blonde hair out of the way as it often clouded her vision as she moved.He was still waiting for an answer. This is something I had gone over and over on my own, thinking whether I should choose the demotion.Alicia thought it was an outrageous idea to get demoted. She felt that we should just agree to pay the company and she said her father would help out but I didn't want to put her and her family through all that.Neither of us were rich and I didn't know how much the company was going to ask for but I knew I was showin
EDENI should have listened to Patricia, I should have listened to myself when I wanted to resign. I should have accepted the CEOs offer to willingly sign my resignation letter.At least that would have saved me the years worth of embarrassment and humiliation that I had suffered at the hands of Selena in this past week.She wanted me to be at the office by six am, apparently that was when the coffee shop that she loved opened and she wanted to get the first cup of coffee.As if that was not enough, the weekends weren't mine. I had to come into the office and get things prepared for Monday.I was supposed to remind her of her meetings thirty minutes, twenty minutes, ten and five minutes before the scheduled time. I wasn't supposed to leave the office before her even though it was after office hours.And even when she left, she gave me documents to file and go through, pointing out how a single missing punctuation could ruin it so I had to do it again.I'd barely seen my daughter this
EDENI knew what I was saying when I said I didn't trust her. Alicia was always in the business of surprising me. Like right now, she had out me into something I wasn't sure was allowed to be called a dress.“This…this is preposterous.” I looked at myself in the mirror and laughed “I’m a mum!"“And so am I. But you don't see me being such a nun.”I was offended.“I am not a nun. I'm being an example to my daughter. ““And did you get that daughter in your nun clothes?”I flashed back to that night. The clothes I wore were Brenda's because mine had been spoiled by dirt.“Yes, they were." I crossed my hands to hear what she was going to say next.“And hence the reason your baby day is chasing you around the city like a dog. He really should get a life. Don't get me wrong, I love Belle. Wear something even better , you'll get a better man.”I dragged the dress she was dangling in front of me.“I'm going to wear it because I can't be bothered to argue with you anymore.”“That’s the smart
EDENI didn't know what it meant to smile at work any more. Not since Selena had become my boss. I came to work with a heavy heart, knowing that just showing up for work alone meant that my day was already ruined.I hated her, with everything in me. Embarrassment and humiliation from her was now a normal thing. Fun fact was that she had now teamed up with my manager to make things harder for me.I should have known that things would get worse for me in the following weeks.First thing Monday morning, she has already gone on a rampage about how I was incompetent and how I was going to get fired when she was the one who missed the meeting because she had an appointment at the spa. Even when I told her that she was going to miss the meeting, she screamed at me and told me to get out.That day, she made sure everyone heard that “I had made her” miss a meeting.” and I hated her for it because no one stood up for me. Instead, I got comments about how I could do a better job and how I should
ROMAN“And tell those guys at Gold House that the Legal team would like to go over the terms of the agreement.”“Yes Alpha."It almost went past me but I heard it.“Oh sorry, sir.”It wasn't easy for the people from the pack to stop calling me Alpha. Even though we'd been here for almost two years, they were still used to the habits. I didn't mind it though, but as long as we were in the office, I didn't need the human workers mistakenly overhearing and starting to ask questions.I walked out into the blinding afternoon sun that was the highest point in the sky. It had been extra sunny these few days and I couldn't help but wonder if something was wrong. It was getting closer to winter and it was still so sunny.On the way, I quickly grabbed some lunch since I missed it due to a meeting. A lot had happened in the past week and it was like twenty four hours isn't enough anymore for the thing I wanted to do in a day.As soon as this whole thing was over, I'd go on a vacation somewhere s
EDENI've learnt never to underestimate anyone. Selena wasn't kidding when she said she was going to make my life hell.She wasn't kidding one bit. From that day onwards, she stopped speaking to me. Surprisingly, she began running her own errands, lunch and coffee included.When she needed something, she would call the deputy to get it done so for basically the entire day, I was just sitting at that desk doing nothing.It went on for a week and I couldn't take it anymore. So I went into her office, she would probably ignore me like she had been doing whenever I spoke to her.“Madam, I would like to have a word with you.”Her head that was raised when her door opened dropped back down the moment I opened my mouth. As I predicted, she didn't reply.“I’m sorry for what happened last week. I just couldn't get myself in any more trouble.”She snorted. She actually snorted.I thought there was going to be a reply after that but there wasn't any. You know what, screw it. If she didn't want t
EDENThe meeting went by in a flash, mostly because I wasn't listening to anything that was being said. So much was going on at once.For starters, Roman's eyes didn't move off my body the moment we looked at each other. The heat that washed over me every time he squinted his eyes, it was like he could see right through my soul.Even when I looked away, I could still feel a burning sensation on my body and it made me so uncomfortable. I didn't know how he managed to hear anything when his eyes were on me throughout.And I couldn't help myself from looking at him. It was stay damned suit he was wearing today. Black was definitely his color and he knew it. He was dressed in an all black suit with a black shirt and as simple as that sounded, it looked as elegant as could be.Him being a king wasn't a mistake. It was like he heard my thoughts because he smirked.Secondly, Selena had stolen everything I prepared for this project and that was what she presented. She repeated every word in t