EPISODE TWELVE.

EPISODE TWELVE.

JENNA'S POV.

"Thank you." I whisper under my breath, trying to keep my emotions at bay even though I'm failing terribly.

A long breath of relief escapes from Michelle's mouth and she nods.

"It's fine, I haven't done anything yet though." She says dramatically, I laughed through my tears and turned to Elijah whose expressions haven't changed a bit.

Judging from what his face is depicting, Michelle has probably found out how he was able to sell the stocks knowingly or unknowingly because one thing about Elijah is that, even if he's lying, his facial expression always sells him off.

"Why did you sack Rosie and the rest? I still make sure I pay them their salary every month even if it's from my purse, why would you do that to the people that started from the scratch with me?" I ask angrily, my chest tightens more as more words continue to spew out from me because I shouldn't have let the matter escalate to this stage, I'm such a dweeb.

"You mean the reduced salaries? Tell me how you would be able to continue with your pathetic way of leading the company in that manner."

"And is this your way of leading the company? I'm so ashamed of you, Elijah. You couldn't even achieve anything on your own without some foul play."

My words seem to aggravate him more as he jerks from his seat, ready to charge at me but Michelle came to his rescue because I would have bitten the shit out of him.

"We are not here to throw words at each other, let's look for a solution and how we are going to settle this." Michelle announced in an outstanding tone which calmed us down.

Moments later, we settled down around the long table which was once my office with Elijah in front of me, glaring and muttering some incoherent words.

An idea suddenly strikes me which push me to focus more on his coordination, he glares at me the moment he knows that I caught his bluff and drag his hands on the table to under.

"Here is the thing, When we had a deposition yesterday night, We found out that your partner had no knowledge about some of the decisions you made, would you enlighten us more about that?" Michelle asks, pushing some papers at Elijah who took lots of time in scrutinizing it.

"Well, at the time I made those decisions, she just lost her sister and was in a bad phase so..."

"Did you ever check up on me or send me texts before assuming that I was in a bad place?" I cut him off immediately, I know the sly Elijah would weaponise my sister's death against me which I'm not going to allow.

"Actually, Jenna, the dates attached to these documents happened as far as June last year which is more than a year ago, The only thing he did during your sister's death was sacking the workers which is unethical." Michelle clarifies, causing him to move uncomfortably on his seat.

"Jenna never took me as her partner, she...."

"Because you didn't do shit, you know nothing about fashion, its niche or anything, besides, it was an honorary position I gave to you after pestering and bullying me for months, don't bring that sob story, Elijah."

"Just let me fucking talk!" He yell in frustration but I only shake my head.

I'm not ready to stop aggravating him until he pushes his limit which he would do soon.

"Elijah, you diverted the company funds for months into your personal account and took it again from your personal account to an untraceable one, you forged signatures of your own partner who was your girlfriend ag that time without her knowledge, then, you sacked the...."

Elijah suddenly starts to laugh in mockery and move away from the table, cackling.

"Elijah!"

Tears stung my eyes again in frustration, how did I even get here?

"If you can bring a piece of evidence to back up your accusations, I will leave the company." He shrugs nonchalantly and bursts out of the door.

After he left, I covered my face with my hands, sobbing, until Michelle comes over to my side.

This is so annoying and embarrassing at the same time. How did I even fall in love with someone as low as him?

"Hey..."

"Don't tell Ryker about any of this." I pleads, looking at her in tears.

Michelle's face morphs into helplessness as she fumble with her words.

"There's no way I can do this without Ryker's help, I..."

"Show me how good of a lawyer you are then, if you can do this without Ryker's help, I will hire you as my company lawyer and accept any offer you want."

"Shit." She curse, eyeing me at intervals.

"Fine, I won't tell him anything about this because the end of this case is glaring as hell." She shakes his head, and I wondered if she saw what I saw as well but I don't want to put all my eggs in a basket, I should investigate all of these alone because I don't trust anyone.

"Thank you for your help, Michelle. I was going to beg him until I saw you here." I chuckle at my stupid self because Elijah would never what I want.

Michelle chuckle as well and shakes her head."That would never work, he's determined to ruin you."

"I know."

Looking around the office which still has every bits of my touch and I hoped it remains that way until I get it back, I felt Michelle hold my hand and walk me out of the room, to the elevator.

"Michelle, I..."

"Staying there will devastate you." She cut me off without sparing me a glance.

I didn't argue with her further, instead, I let her hold me till we got to her car and agree to her dropping me at home.

"Did you know my sister?" I ask as I watch her drive slowly through the express way, Michelle suddenly lose her focus and almost ran into the car in front of her.

"Hey!" I shout fearfully, she quickly comports herself and stare into space.

What the hell just happened?

"Michelle." I called after some moments and she finally turns to me.

"Sorry about that, I tapped out."

"Obviously." I roll my eyes in annoyance, can't believe she almost killed me. "I asked you about my sister."

The atmosphere becomes eerily silent after my question but I didn't push it further, if she's not ready to tell me anything about my sister, good for her because I will find out anyways.

"She's a nice person." She nods consecutively and laughs it off in such a weird manner.

She's lying again. Oh,God!