CHAPTER 002

****Lana's POV****

I stood there in the middle of it all, as the world spinned around me in circles. Mr Lance's short fingers pointing at me accusingly in the boardroom while he clutched his bandaged head with one hand.

"This girl, she's a psycho, she broke my head with a vase and even slapped me!"

I smirked, wishing I could have done more. Mr Lance caught the smirk and ran wild.

"You see. You see that smirk? She did this on purpose, she's crazy!"

"Calm down, Mr Lance, we need to hear from Lana also, she deserves the right to speak.” Ms Molly, the assistant director said, then turned to me. “Lana, what happened?”

“Thanks ms molly, thing is Mr Lance here has been making advances at me for the past few weeks since i joined the hospital”

“What? How dare you, I knew you’d say this, I need this girl fired, she is not who she pretends to be, i would not sit here and be embarrassed this way, she has to go.” Mr Lance rumbled.

“Mr lance, can you calm down, you brought this case to the management, let us handle it in a reasonable manner, Lana, please continue”

“Thanks ma'am,” I nodded with a smile. “I have refused his advances several times and made it clear to him that i’m not that type of woman and for a while things were fine, but i noticed my pay were cut off each time for the strangest reasons, sometimes even delayed, i’ve made several complaints but they were ignored, fast forward to today i went to mr lance to request for my payment and salary advance but he sexually assaulted me.”

By this time Mr Lance was already vibrating on his seat glaring at me whilst gripping his well injured head.

“What do you have to say for yourself, Mr Lance?”

“I can say boldly i never assaulted, Lana, you can check the CCTV yourself”

The CCTV, that would reveal everything but why would Mr Lance suggest that when he’s in the wrong, except… he had someone manipulate it and as expected the part where he tried to assault me was professionally scrapped off just showing the part where i hit him.

“This crazy girl here, launched at me when I refused to approve of the outrageous amount she wanted for salary advances. As you all can see, she’s the psychopath here and I demand her immediate removal.”

I collapsed on my knees running to Ms Molly.

“No, please that's not the entire truth, please don't sack me, I really need this job to take care of my sick father, please.”

“I’m sorry Lana, but the evidence here goes against you, you know what that means.”

“No, it's being manipulated, please, confirm this again.”

“Lying, aggression, and now accusation? You keep adding to your list, Lana why don’t you accept the fall instead of making things worse for yourself?”

“Mr Lance you know damn well i didn’t do what you’re accusing me of, how heartless can you be, i have a sick father!”

“You. are. Fired, Lana. Bye bye.” he said storming out of the room. And just like that, I was down to Ground Zero.

*****

“I cant let him get away with this, Lana, he cant just have you fired like this, i dont care that he's the director, I'm storming into his office and—”

“Kayla, no… please don't, you can't do that you might lose your job too.” I cut in, grabbing the already vibrating Kayla.

“I don't care!”

“Okay, fine but remember my dad is still in this hospital?’

“Yeah so? They aren't going to kick him out just because we’re fighting for our right”

“Anything is possible with Mr Lance, he just rigged the CCTV in the space of a few hours remember? I don't want him to have my dad thrown out of this hospital.”

“I sincerely hope karma catches up with him soon or I might.”

“It sure will, it sure will, I gotta go now.” I sighed gribbing onto my bag.

“I’d really miss you…” kayla said already shedding tears, i already made up my mind to be strong in this time, i couldnt let her see me break down else shed be worried sick so all i could do was hug her tight for few minutes and then i was gone from the hospital.

I couldn't afford to break down.

*****

A few hours later I was in my apartment stuffing my face with cereal like I hadn't just fallen down the drain in one day.

My dad was dying and needed immediate surgery, I got sacked and I had no money left. Wasn't that just amazing.

I could feel the tears start to stream down my face, one I'd held in all morning and my heart broke to a thousand pieces.

But a notification popped up on my screen, jilting my phone to life, for a second i thought I may have been imagining things when the subject of the email notification read ; JOB APPLICATION OFFER

I remember applying for a job about a month ago before the hospital noticed my skills and hired me. But back then i didnt think my application would be accepted, i didnt have any experience aside from taking care of my dad for years and the job in question was either high stakes or a scam. $20,000 every month as a private nurse, and they considered me? With my incredibly low CV?

This had to be a scam.

I tapped on the details and right there my name stood out.

“Dear Ms Lana , congratulations you have been selected as one of the outstanding candidates who applied for the position of a private nurse and you are expected to come for the interview which is scheduled to hold in two days—”

“What!”

I sprang up in excitement, I don't know how this happened and didn't care if this was just an interview but it meant a whole lot.

I'd been considered for such a big offer. This had better not be a scam or a mistake.

Okay, Lana, don't get too excited I exhaled and inhaled twirling and dancing to non audible music. This was the best news I'd ever received in a really long while.

I needed a suit, I needed to get a good suit as soon as possible!