EDENI guess my fear that Roman would appear was an overreaction. It had been a month since I'd brought Belle back to my house and she still hadn't shown up. If he had truly found out about her, why won't he have broken down my door and taken her from me?Or better yet, kidnapped her on her way back from school since he was actually very desperate.I wouldn't put a thing like that past him, he was a man of deadly means. I'd made sure to call Belle's school and tell them that she won't be attending school for some weeks.Gosh I needed a break from everything but I don't think I can call in for another break from work. My manager would just have my neck just like he'd always wanted.That was fine, I could handle myself. It was Belle I was worried about.Speaking of the issue that had gotten us in this situation in the first place, no one was saying anything about the contract and I was beginning to wonder what was going on because this was supposedly the deal of the year for this compan

EDENI had to stop the car at the side of the road and turn around properly to talk to her.“What did you say?” I wanted to make sure I had heard her correctly.“Roman." She looked at me with her wide beautiful eyes and I wondered if I should be angry at her.“You can't talk to him anymore. He's not a good person."I knew that was low and I knew I shouldn't be saying bad things about him but I had no other choice. Since I couldn't tell her that they were father and daughter, I had to tell her anything I knew would scare her off.Or so I thought.“He’s a good person, mummy. He always brings me chocolates and flowers and asks me how my day is going.”Always?! I'm sorry, always?!“Since when have you been seeing him? I mean, since when has he been coming around?"She placed her hand on her chin and looked outside the window.“Um, since I came back home.”Bloody freaking hell. That bloody bastard has been going behind my back to see my daughter, making me think that he was finally out of

EDENI should have listened to Patricia, I should have listened to myself when I wanted to resign. I should have accepted the CEOs offer to willingly sign my resignation letter.At least that would have saved me the years worth of embarrassment and humiliation that I had suffered at the hands of Selena in this past week.She wanted me to be at the office by six am, apparently that was when the coffee shop that she loved opened and she wanted to get the first cup of coffee.As if that was not enough, the weekends weren't mine. I had to come into the office and get things prepared for Monday.I was supposed to remind her of her meetings thirty minutes, twenty minutes, ten and five minutes before the scheduled time. I wasn't supposed to leave the office before her even though it was after office hours.And even when she left, she gave me documents to file and go through, pointing out how a single missing punctuation could ruin it so I had to do it again.I'd barely seen my daughter this

EDENI didn't know what it meant to smile at work any more. Not since Selena had become my boss. I came to work with a heavy heart, knowing that just showing up for work alone meant that my day was already ruined.I hated her, with everything in me. Embarrassment and humiliation from her was now a normal thing. Fun fact was that she had now teamed up with my manager to make things harder for me.I should have known that things would get worse for me in the following weeks.First thing Monday morning, she has already gone on a rampage about how I was incompetent and how I was going to get fired when she was the one who missed the meeting because she had an appointment at the spa. Even when I told her that she was going to miss the meeting, she screamed at me and told me to get out.That day, she made sure everyone heard that “I had made her” miss a meeting.” and I hated her for it because no one stood up for me. Instead, I got comments about how I could do a better job and how I should

EDENI've learnt never to underestimate anyone. Selena wasn't kidding when she said she was going to make my life hell.She wasn't kidding one bit. From that day onwards, she stopped speaking to me. Surprisingly, she began running her own errands, lunch and coffee included.When she needed something, she would call the deputy to get it done so for basically the entire day, I was just sitting at that desk doing nothing.It went on for a week and I couldn't take it anymore. So I went into her office, she would probably ignore me like she had been doing whenever I spoke to her.“Madam, I would like to have a word with you.”Her head that was raised when her door opened dropped back down the moment I opened my mouth. As I predicted, she didn't reply.“I’m sorry for what happened last week. I just couldn't get myself in any more trouble.”She snorted. She actually snorted.I thought there was going to be a reply after that but there wasn't any. You know what, screw it. If she didn't want t