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RayaIt was finally Saturday, the day I got to spend time with my son and Kendall's family, and we sat at the park where we had taken them to."Hey, are you going to keep working?" Kendall asked, when she came back from the ice cream kiosk where she had just gone to buy some ice-cream for us and I closed my laptop."I'm sorry, I was just gathering some reports that I'll need on Monday""Ugh!" She sighed and sat down on the mat while our sons played around. Her little daughter, Leah, was content with playing with a lead on the mat and I carried her up."Oh my God, isn't she the cutest?""Uh, only when she wants to" I chuckled at the ridiculous expression on her face."And their dad?" She shrugged, "he's having a fun time with his girlfriend."I sighed and patted her hands on the mat, "it'll be okay. It's better that you guys parted ways.""I know right. We're better off without him."We both laid on the mat after getting our ice cream and the sun shone on us happily.I loved this and

MaxwellI glanced at Diane and Micheal as they chatted with some of the guests that had come to the engagement party, and she looked exceptionally stunning in the white dress she wore.Even more so than my secretary, who had turned me down."So she had basically said she didn't want your money and walked out on you?" I turned to Ryan, who was having the time of his life laughing at me and scowled."It is her loss, anyway. She missed out on ten million dollars.""Wow, that's a lot, but I must say I admire her though. She is definitely not like the other girls.""Yeah but she ran away with my two million dollar dress. Not to talk about the makeup and accessories.""Right, how did you know the dress Diane would be wearing though?"I shrugged, "I spoke to the department store where her and Micheal ordered the dress.""Oh, that makes sense... But like, how does it feel to get turned down by a mere lady in this day and age" he asked, chuckling again, and I turned to him with a scowl."Will

MaxwellI couldn't believe what I was hearing.Had my secretary just talked back at me, and for a mistake she made by herself?I gaped at her still, unsure of how to reply."You can't be serious," I said after a moment. "Of course I am.""And what if I force you to pay for it...""I'll report you to the headquarters.""What?" I scoffed "I'm a Sterling, not just any employee.""Yeah, but that doesn't give you the right to do just about anything you want. I'm sure your brother would agree with that.""What?" I felt my insides burn at that."My brother?" "Yes, your brother."I ran my hand through my hair, dumping the bag that contained the dress on my couch and I glanced back at her, "Get out."She didn't waste any time in doing that, and I went to the fridge to get a can of beer because of how livid I was, and I went to my private gym underground, to do some punching.My brother?Wow, she's got some guts.Like, everyone I knew would never try to talk back to me or get under my skin th

RayaI stood in front of Mr. Sterling that morning, waiting for him to say something as he sipped the coffee I had made for him, and he spat it out almost immediately."What the f*ck?! Are you trying to kill me?"I stared at him surprised at his outburst, "w-what, what is wrong?""It's too sugary. Make another one"I picked up the half-filled mug, and headed out of his office to the office lounge that was by my desk, and I made him another coffee.Maybe I had put in too much sugar because I was too nervous about our argument yesterday.He spat out the next one I brought to him almost immediately, "too bitter! Make another one""Too black! More milk"I scoffed, going out of the office for the third time. There was no way the three cups of coffee I had made for him were that bad. This was just his way of getting back at me, right?I prepared another cup of coffee and handed it to him, "You know what? Just get me a cup of iced Americano from the café downstairs. You obviously can't do an

Raya"Raya, what's wrong?" Kendall asked as I walked into her shop an hour later after leaving my boss on the roadside, and she looked genuinely concerned, probably because I never usually finish work this early.I sighed and ran a hand through my hair, "I-I'm jobless.""What? Why?" She asked as she sat me down at a booth and I pondered on how to tell her that I had slapped my boss, told him I would no longer work with him, and walked away from him.She looked just as livid as I had been when I later told her."What? How dare he? Take the Sterling money""I know right, but I still shouldn't have let him destroy the work I had built for five years. Five years is no joke. Where am I meant to start from? Who'll employ me? No one, because no one wants a school dropout who has only worked part-time jobs most of her life and only got the secretary job I just threw away because of sheer luck.""Hey, I'm sure you'll find somewhere and, even if you don't, you can use that to start the dream yo