Chapter 5
While Antonio was seething with rage, the same could also be said about Zabelle who was angrily making her way out of the company. Her colleagues weren’t wrong when they described Antonio as overbearing.
In fact, overbearing wasn’t enough to describe him. She had barely spent ten minutes with him and she already hated him.
It was her fault for not checking the documents, but there was no need for him to insult her looks. Even she wasn’t looking to settle with someone like him. He was only handsome physically. Everything else about him was ugly.
The women who chased after him were either stupid or blinded to do so after what she had s down so she could return to the office to have a word with the asshole who had put her in the
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i!” She flagged a cab
When she got to the office, she intended to go to the asshole’s office, however, she received news that she had been called to the CEO’s office.
Her heart dipped as she had never been called there and following the events that had happened, what were the odds that she was being called for that reason?
When Zabelle got there, she saw the man who had been responsible for her run–in with Antonio already seated there. She clenched her fist as she could already tell where this was going.
“Sir, you called for me,” she spoke, breaking the silence in the room.
“I received a call from Mr Garcia a few minutes ago, and he said a woman came to his company with a merger contract from our company,” her boss started, and her heart raced in her chest,
“This is shocking, especially considering the fact that the merger contract was already delivered to his company. Care to say anything about it?”
“Sir, it was a misunderstanding. Mr Dumong asked me to deliver the document to Mr Garcia’s secretary. I had no idea that the contract had already been delivered,” she tried to explain.
“Have you no shame to lie against me?” The man who had framed her immediately fired at her. “This is what I was just talking about, sir, she always looks for someone to blame for her mistakes. Normally I would overlook it, but she crossed all the lines today.”
“I crossed the line? You crossed it ages ago when you tried to get me into your bed,” Zabelle retorted, her chest heaving heavily due to the anger she felt.
“You’re fired,” she then heard the CEO say to her coldly and her heart dipped.
“Sir, I promise I really…”
“If you continue I’ll be forced to file a complaint against you for trespassing. You have ten seconds to get out of my office and five minutes to get out of the building,” the CEO gave an ultimatum.
Casting one last glare at Mr Dumong, she turned and left the office. It seemed news of what had happened had already spread around the office as when she stepped out of the room, she was greeted with murmurings.
Paying no attention to them, she headed to her desk and started to clear out her things.
‘She acts like she doesn’t care but who knew she was so cheap to go after Antonio Garcia, Zabelle heard someone say and she
clenched her fists.
She hadn’t gone after him and up until when he introduced himself to her, she didn’t even know who he was but no one would believe her.
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‘She must have big dreams–to think that someone like Antonio Garcia would fall for someone like her. Has she looked in the mirror to see how ugly she is?”
Not wanting to hear more, she quickly cleared her desk and headed to the elevator. Taking a deep breath, she took one last look at the place where she had worked for the last year.
When Zabelle got outside the building, she was met with an unpleasant surprise in the form of the same person she was accused of trying to date.
He was leaning against his car casually and his arms were crossed. Did the asshole really come all the way over there to bask in her getting fired? She asked herself as she made her way over to where he was.
The voice in her head told her that it was a bad decision to confront him, but she didn’t car wasn’t going to back down.
“You did this!” She fired at him when she got closer to him.
a matter of egos, and she
“YOU did this,” Antonio corrected as he smirked evilly due to him being satisfied with what he saw in front of him.
He had even cancelled his meeting just so he could see this.
“I told you that I was framed by my boss who has been trying to get me to sleep with him!” Zabelle stated but Antonio didn’t believe her.
“You really are a great liar,” Antonio responded. “How cheap must you really…” he was unable to complete his words as Zabelle moved to attack him in the same spot as earlier. However, he was prepared for her as he easily deflected her attack.
A frown appeared on his face as he thought he would have cut her wings, but she was still as arrogant as ever and this infuriated him as this wasn’t what he was expecting when he came there.
Antonio was expecting her to beg for his forgiveness, but nothing of such was happening.
“The first one was unexpected, I’d be damned if I let you hit me again,” he growled.
Zabelle glared at him, and she wondered just how terrible her luck was to have met someone like him. “You don’t know me so don’t you ever dare question my character,” she warned Antonio.
“I already told you that I was framed, but you don’t believe me and frankly speaking, that’s a you problem,” she paused before continuing. “You’ve gotten your revenge by firing me from my job, congratulations. Make sure you never show your pathetic face in front of me, or I’ll sue you for harassment.”
Those were her last words to him before walking out on a shocked Antonio who was surprised that she had the last word once again.
He turned just in time to see her get into a taxi, and he watched it drive off. Did the fool really think that his revenge would stop with just getting her fired?
That was only the tip of the iceberg as a lot more was to come, he thought to himself before getting into his car.
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