Chapter 0131 I shrug âSure, if thatâs how you want to take it +15 BONUS âOne word from me and Rowan will be on your ass weâve danced this game before Avs You know all !
Ave. have to tell Rowan is that youâve been rude to me and he will blow up on you Before, that would have made me bow down. I desperately didnât want to have any more problems with Rowan, so i would let her humiliate me. She would revel in it. Feeling powerful that she was able to reduce me to nothing I I give her a smile. âGo ahead. I honestly donât give a fuck in fact, why donât you take your phone out night now and call him?â I challenge her.
âYou think I wonât?â
âIâm counting on you doing it I reply smugly.
Slowly by slowly, the selfâesteem I thought I had lost after Ethan betrayed me was starting to come back Never will I allow a man to make me hit rock bottom again, âWhatâs going on here? a stem voice says I look up to find Corrine staring between us. We werenât friends, more like acquaintances or business partner. Her fatherâs construction firm is the one I use when building Hope Houses. She is the owner of this restaurant. The construction firm is a family company and she was a shareholder, but the restaurants were all hers:
âThis woman here is causing a disturbance, I suggest you kick her outâ Anita rushes to speak. âWe were just minding our own business when she started calling me namesâ
I smirk. Folding my hands across my chest as I watch her make a fool of herself.
Everyone knows who Corrine is. No one though, knows that we know each other. I was waiting for the show to start. Unlike Rowan, Corinne wasnât easily fooled.
âIs that so?â she asks, her voice low.
I never let myself get too close to her. She wanted us to be friends, but at that time I thought that no one would want a loser like me as a friend. Instead I kept her at arm length. Only talking to her when business was involved.
Anita nods her head. She gives her friends a small signal and they all agree with her. What a bunch of idiots 13 +15 BONUS âDo you think Iâm stupid? Do you think this entire place has no cameras?â he asks them 7 saw everything and then you dare lie to me?â
I see the moment Anita realizes she has fucked up. She swallows hard, panic etched on her face âItâs just a misunderstandingâ she struggles to say, clutching at straws.
âGet out!â
7 said get out of my fucking restaurant! I wonât have a lowly bitch with no manners try and humiliate my friend in my own fucking restaurantâ Corrine was seething and it was written all over her face.
I was surprised she called me her friend, but I push the thought away.
Are you going to leave or do you want me to have my body guards drag you out?â
âFine, the food here isnât even goodâ she huffs.
We all know that sheâs lying. This was one of the best restaurants in the city. Everyone knew that.
Anita turns around to leave, itâs only then I realize that we had attracted attention. Before she can leave, Corrine calls her name.
âAnd Anita?â
âWhat?â she snaps.
âYouâre no longer welcomed at any of my restaurants. That goes for you friends tooâ
I smirk when her mouth falls open in shock. She then stomps away. Her friends hot on her heels. Cursing her for getting them banned.
âThank you for that, Corrine. She was starting to get for that, Corrine. She was starting to get on my damn nervesâ I humph.
âItâs okay...it was no problemâ she gives me a small smile.
I go to tell her something more, when my name is called.
I âAva?â I freeze at the sound of her voice.
I turn around to find Rowanâs mom standing behind me. Next to her with tears in her eyes, is the woman | thought was my mother. The woman who called me her daughter, but treated me like I was nothing.
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