SWNOVELS Chapter 25
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Davis stared at her as she trembled, tears streaming down her face. He looked away with a dejected sigh. “What was I thinking?” he muttered. He had been foolish. Everything he had done was foolish.
“I shouldn’t have hired you,” he said after a while.
She looked up at him so fast, it was a wonder her neck didn’t break. “W-
“I should have taken into consideration your feelings for that piece of trash,” he continued. “I shouldn’t have put you under the same roof as him. I should have taken into consideration the fact that he’ll try to make a move on you.”
Anna shook her head. He has given her the chance and opportunity to take revenge on the family that made her suffer. True, she had been a total idiot by giving Daniel the chance to use her feelings against her, but she couldn’t lose the only chance she had at revenge.
“Wear your clothes,” he said, looking away from her.
“No,” she said. “You can take me if you want, but please-”
“I don’t and can’t trust you, Anna Merdibuth. All you’ve done is make me further doubt you. I won’t let you become a weakness the Monroes can use against me. I didn’t have all these problems when I was working on my own, but I brought you in and I keep worrying about whether or not you’ll ruin everything.”
He walked to the bed and removed the duvet. Walking back to her, he wrapped it around her body. “As from now on, you’re fired,” he said and with a frown, added, “And I don’t want you.”
He picked up his briefcase and phone. “I expect you to be out of this house in the next three days. You can keep the money I paid you for this month,” he told her and left the room.
Anna fell to the floor. What do I do now?
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“Wait, wait, wait! Slow down, Anna,” Lily said, handing a panicked Anna å glass of water.
Anna took the glass of chilled water from her with a grateful smile and heaved a sigh of relief as the cold liquid streamed down her throat. “He fired me, Lily. What do I do now?”
Lily shrugged, “Accept it, forget about the revenge and move on with your life,” she said plainly.
“That’s what you’re going to say to me?” Anna questioned with a scoff and continued in a raised voice. “You know how much I want this-”
“No, Anna. I don’t,” Lily snapped. “And you know me too well to know I always call you out on your bullshit. I don’t sugarcoat things just because you’re my best friend and I’m not going to start now-
You claim you want revenge against Daniel and yet you nearly kiss him? I get it’s hard for you because you love him and whatnot, but you can’t blame Davis for not being able to trust you when you
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can’t even control your feelings,” She paused, pacing around the living room in frustration.
I want to hit you, Anna, but that won’t knock out your feelings for Daniel. Look, I completely agree with Davis’s decision to fire you. You said he’s been planning the revenge for a long time and just when he decides to bring you in to assist him, you start to cause problems for him
“-so what do you think he’ll do?” she asked.
Anna dropped her head in defeat, “Cut me off,” she answered like a child who was being scolded for eating a bar soap.
Lily sighed and sat next to her. “Perhaps it’s better for you to be far away from all this mess. I mean, for all we know, Davis could be a baggage of trouble…” she trailed off before adding, “I mean, he has been a gentleman for the most part, but the point is you don’t know him enough
For all we know, he could have a dangerous background and your title as his wife might have exposed you to danger already so let’s just let this go, alright? Besides, you could use the money he gave to you to start a business.”
Anna shook her head, “I admit I’ve been an idiot, but I won’t make the mistake the third time. Daniel is not going to ruin my life completely.”
Lily sighed, “Fine, what do you want to do? And how are you going to get Davis to take you back?”
Anna massaged her forehead, “I’ll have to beg him and put my life on the line or something. I don’t know how but when I do get to that bridge, I’ll cross it.”
“And how exactly do you intend to get to the bridge when you don’t know where it is?”
with a raised brow.
Lily asked
“I don’t know,” Anna admitted. “I doubt he’ll be at the house today now that he’s kicked me out, but I don’t know where he lives. I would have gone to his company, but because no one had ever seen him till last week, he probably never went to his company.”
“Which means his home is where we have a high chance of finding him,” Lily said with a deep frown. “Finding where he lives might not be that easy though. Reporters should have flocked to his place. countless times to get his pictures if they knew where he lives.”
“I’ll try to find where he lives,” Lily assured. “You just focus on what to say when you see him.”
Anna nodded as she fell back to the bed, hoping Davis had a change of mind.
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“I should have listened to you, Paul,” Davis sald with a frown etched on his face. “Hiring Anna was a mistake just like you said. She and her feelings are nothing but trouble and weakness the Monroes are already trying to explore.”
“And so you fired her?” Paul said with his usual stolc expression.
Davis nodded, “Yes and I’ve given her three days to leave the house,” he leaned back in his chair, letting out an exasperated sigh. “I hate making mistakes, especially when it’s about people. But I have
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no choice but to admit it. If I don’t, it’s going to come back to bite me in the ass.”
Paul nodded. “Would you like my input on this?” he asked, politely.
Davis let out a groan of frustration, “Why do you keep asking when you know what I’m going to say?”
Paul didn’t say anything and waited.
“Yes, you can go ahead with what you want to say, I’m listening,” Davis said.
“I think you should take her back,” Paul said. At his words, Davis turned to him, his eyebrows raised, a puzzled expression on his face.
“But you were against working with her.”
Paul nodded. “Till she started bringing results.,” he said, “Before she came, all we’ve done is plan and while that is a good thing, we can’t deny she’s done considerable damage to the Monroes-”
“-As we currently speak, their stocks have plummeted. Although they’ll recover from this, the reputation they’ve been building has been tainted. It’s little, but she did this in less than a week. It shows how capable she is, albeit foolish,” He paused, waiting for Davis to take it in.
“In addition, you already introduced her as your wife to everyone considered important, it wouldn’t be good for you to divorce her after being married to her for less than a month. Not to mention, you said Giovanni is in New York. Knowing him, he already has his eyes set on her
“This isn’t the time to fire her,” Paul said. “We should also get her to use Daniel just the way he wants to use her.”
Davis sunk into his seat. “I already fired her and I won’t go back on my decision.”