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Chapter 41
Chapter 41
Chapter 41
“And that concludes our meeting this morning, gentlemen.” | said to the men seated around the table. “The plans for expenditure will be drawn up and finalised and we should be able to take it forward from there.” | turned the projector off by a press of a button on the remote that | held throughout this meeting.
The board room had emptied out after a short wait and | always made sure to be the last to leave the room but today | didn’t make haste in exiting the board room. Instead, | stayed back a little while longer allowing myself to drop the mask of composure | had maintained for the past hour and a half.
Had it not been for this meeting on my agenda for the day, | would have still been in bed moping. in my self pity than dressed up in work clothes and heels. Maybe being in the office was good. It would served as a well enough distraction that would tire me out by the time | got home.
| looked over the bustling city below, watched the cars drive by and allowed my shoulders to slump. It has been less than 24 hours that | had discovered that Pheobe had been with Dante all along.
It had reached a point where | felt numb to it all. | wanted to forget that we shared a week of S*x only for him to drop me once he realised that he had his full of me. He offered me no explanation on the spot yet he had the audacity to try and contact me later that day. Obviously, | did not entertain his call and left it to ring but he never tried to contact me after that, much to my dismay
| glanced at the silver wrist watch I had on. Shit, | had another meeting with the marketing department in about ten minutes time. It wasn’t a major meeting like this morning’s once had been and | would just be seated there whilst the head of marketing carried us through the latest progressions.
| recomposed myself and fixed the mask of being neutral over my face before leaving the board. room and heading to my office to fetch a file with the meetings outline before | could head down to the marketing floor.
As | neared Lucy’s desk just outside my office, | noticed that her head had been down and she was focussed on some thing on her computer screen but the second she heard the sound of my approaching heels clink against the floor, she looked up to see who it had been.
When she saw me she did a bit of a double take before her eyes lit up and her face beamed at me. | couldn’t understand what had illicited this reaction especially since she had not been seeing me for the first time today.
“| have been waiting for that meeting of yours to finish.” She said with a huff as she stood up her chair and leaned over her desk. fromAll text © NôvelD(r)a'ma.Org.
| raised a quizzical brow at her.““And why would that be? | haven’t been gone for long enough for some thing detrimental to arise.” | said lightly but her facial expression told me other wise.
“Because | had discovered a small tid bit about one of your most valuable investors that was released during your meeting.” Lucy said wiggling her eye brows and my interest was piqued.
“Do tell.” | shifted my weight from my right to left foot and waited for her to drop the bomb. 11:27 Wed, 6 Mar R Chapter 41
“Mr. Crawford, the company’s most vital investor, has announced his engagement to Pheobe Ashford, his girlfriend of many years now.” Lucy announced the news to me right before she shoved her work tablet in my direction leaving me with no other option but to look at the screen.
The screen held an article photographing the both of them from out side Dante’s house as they posed for pictures after announcing their engagement to each other. The article claimed that it was a long awaited engagement and once that came as quite a surprise. | scoffed at that part.
“| don’t mean to be rude but | don’t like her very much. She’s known to be a bit of a harsh personality but | guess all these rich people have that side to them. Lucy gave her opinion freely but | paid her little heed.
All | could focus on was Dante standing next to Pheobe posing willingly for the paparazzi. They smiled and waved and Pheobe showed of her engagement ring with far too much vigour.
The lump that had formed in my throat had turned painful. This was all just a massive reminder of what a mistake | had made in my cloudy lack of lustful judgement.
Dante was actually going to marry her. That was his intention and he was delivering in it. | found it ironic that he had popped the question so soon after out little fling. It was almost like he had to get me out his system before he did it and that just stung even more bitterly.
“Miss Miller?” Lucy called dragging me out of my torturous thoughts.
| cleared my throat and blinked a few times trying to muster up the appropriate reaction to this new piece of devastating news.
“Good for them. We must send them some flowers.‘ | didn’t actually mean it but Lucy’s eyes lit up.
“That is an excellent idea. I'll work on that right away. She placed the tablet back on to the desk. before reaching for the office phone and making the calls.
“Thank you.” | said before walking away not knowing what the hell else | was expected to say,
It was all still so unfathomable to me that Dante had done me so d’*rty. From lying about Pheobe and him being over to pretending to be so needy for me only for him to go and do all of this to me like | was a worthless.
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