Chapter 5: CONFRONTATION
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** EVA'S POV **
Joan was waiting for me in the living room. She bombarded me with questions when I stepped into the house.
Joan – “Where were you? Why didn't you pick up my calls nor respond to my texts? I was so worried about you!"
Me – “Calm down drama queen! I am home now safe and sound."
Joan – “Did you go out for an interview today?"
Me – “No. Max asked me to spend some time with him so I had been out with that little ball of energy. Turns out it’s his birthday today so I went to his place and baked a cake together and had a little celebration."
Joan – “Oh! That's nice. By the way, have you got any idea why no one is hiring you? It’s not like there are many dessert chefs around."
Me – “Even the reasons they are giving for not hiring me are lame. It almost feels like God is making sure to make me suffer for neglecting him."
Joan has a look as if she just remembered something "Maybe not God but maybe someone else. Someone whom you pissed."
Me – “The only person I ever pissed was that guy who got me fir...." I trailed off. Joan looks at me with her eyes bulged out.
Joan - "Wasn't he Dan Spence? The owner of Spence Inc."
Me – “I don't know who he is."
Joan – “OMG! Dan Spence is like the Prince of the business world. The most eligible bachelor. Playboy businessman, known to be ruthless. So maybe just maybe he is the one who is doing all this?"
Me – “If he is who you say he is then what is the need for someone like him to ruin the life of someone like me? I mean, he did get me fired for nothing which in itself is bad enough already don't you think?"
Joan – “I don't know. It just seems weird that a chef with skills like yours is not getting hired anywhere and not getting any place to rent? It is just not sitting right with me."
Me – “I feel the exact same way too."
We both looked at each other when Joan suggested me to go to him and talk to him as there seems to be no other reason for what was happening with me.
I woke up the next day and got ready in my jeans and a t-shirt along with a leather jacket to meet Dan Spence. I knew, if he is the one messing with me then he will never agree for a meeting with me so I decided to just pop-in at his office.
Once I reached his office building I made a call to the reception to check if he is in or not and I was glad to know that he was in his office so I made my way to the reception and told her who I was and asked her to get me to meet him.
I was surprised when she called, he told her to let me come up to his office. A lot of questions started swirling in my head like 'How does he know who I am?' 'Why did he agree to meet me?'
I rode the elevator to his floor and walked up to the receptionist and introduced myself. She took me to a room which looked like a conference room and asked me to wait there as instructed by Mr. Dan Spence.
I waited for 3 hrs before he came to the conference room. I stood up and extended my hand introducing myself for a handshake and all I received was a cold shoulder, he just ignored me and sat in a chair still not sparing even a single glance at me.
He was looking at his phone. I finally asked "Why are you doing this?" coz the way he was behaving made it clear that he had everything to do with what was happening in my life.
He finally looked up from his phone scoffed saying "You should know what you brought upon yourself when you let your mouth and hands run rampant against me".
I looked at him with anger bubbling inside me threatening to be unleashed with every word that was coming out of his mouth. He was still not done "Nobody dares to f*****g defy me and get away unscathed, especially someone like you. You thought, to fire you was the only punishment you would receive for talking back to me and raising your hand against me huh? I did what I did to show you what hell you unleashed when you acted out."
*SLAP SOUND RESOUNDING IN THE ROOM*
I stepped closer pointing my finger at him "FIRSTLY IT WAS YOUR MISTAKE AND NOT MINE AND HOW DARE YOU TALK LOW OF A PERSON WHO WORKED HARD TO BE WHERE THEY ARE? YOU MADE ME LOSE MY JOB YOU EVEN WENT TO THE EXTENT OF MAKING SURE THAT I REMAINED JOBLESS I AM GUESSING YOU INTERVENED IN ME FINDING A PLACE TO RENT AS WELL! YOU DESERVED WHAT I DID THAT DAY AND WHAT I DID JUST NOW. "
I turned on my heel and walked away. I could not stand another second, being in the same room as him.
** DAN'S POV **
I found all the toys which I had placed in my son's room were out, looked like they were thrown out. I didn't know how to deal with this situation so I went back to my room, took a shower got ready, and left to the office without apologizing to Max.
I was just done with a meeting when my assistant said that a certain woman named 'Eva Roberts' was here to meet me. I knew who she was so I asked her to let her come and ordered my assistant to make her wait in the conference room. 'It’s not my need to meet her so what’s the hurry let her wait' my inner demon was getting pleased with this situation.
I made her wait for 3 hrs when I finally decided to meet her. I walked into the conference room and she introduced herself and extended her hand out for a handshake which I ignored and took my seat at the table.
She understood when I gave her the cold shoulder and immediately started to bombard me with questions, questions to which she knew the answer to, but acted as if she didn't know what her fault was. Something snapped in me and I spoke, insulting her and just like the first time there was noise and I felt a stinging pain in my cheek. The next thing I see, she is unleashing her anger at me yelling at me in my office.
She stormed off once she vented her anger out leaving me in much more anger coz, she is the only ONE who ever dared to insult me or defy me EVER.
** This simple confrontation only added as a fuel to the fire that was about to engulf them both **
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