Chapter 3
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"Zach." She called for him again.
She doesn't care anymore for the interview. The real purpose of why she's here. What she wants from now is to talk to him, this is her chance.
"Zach." This time she was walking towards him.
She wants to hug him.
She just realized how badly she misses Zach.
"Don't," Zach said sternly.
Scylla steps stop.
She never saw him this angry. Of course, she wouldn't know but one thing is for sure, she is the reason for it, so she stays rooted. She didn't dare to move forward even a little bit.
She worked for him as his secretary. Her love for him inspired her. She was very dedicated, hard-working and very supportive of him. She only looked up at him as if he was the only man in the building and she was good at keeping her feelings at bay. Being with him was enough for her, but one cannot contain when it's overflowing. So, when Zach confessed his love to her, she didn't deny her true feelings and that was the start of their happy days until the time when she needed to leave, for her sick mother, the passing of his father and,
"Hey, Stella." She was cut from her thought.
Zach was talking to a woman over the phone and her heart was dying to know who is it.
Who is Stella? His girlfriend or maybe his wife? By just thinking of the possibilities, her heart was pinched to a thousand times.
"Please take your seat, Ms. Grace. My visitor will join in a few minutes." He said casually.
Just visitor.
She replayed it on her mind. She knew she doesn't have the right to be bitter but she can't control her emotion.
The moment her butt touched the leather seat, the glass door slid open.
A very beautiful woman appeared, her dress was very tight hugging every curve of her body that any woman will envy for, including Scylla.
How can Zach not fall for this kind of woman? Scylla asked herself simply eyeing the woman from head to toe.
"Zach, baby why won't you come to our dinner with your dad?" The woman said not seeing Scylla.
The words baby and dad make her heart ached and throbbed inside her chest.
Of course, Zach's father will choose the like of her. She is fitting for his son, but why would Zach lie about her?
He is her girlfriend and not just a visitor.
"Stella," Zach said with lips draw into a thin line. He is not glad at all.
"Oh, who is this woman? Am I interrupting something?"
Finally, Stella noticed Scylla. She was eyeing her shamelessly from head to toe trying to hide her smirk. If she is seeing it right from her controlled expression.
The woman thinks she was here for another business, and Zach was fast to answer on her behalf.
"She is here for an interview, Stella."
Scylla was intrigued by his behavior. Zach was rude to her she could say.
"Come on, in this very hour? Who interviews on a night?" Stella asked as her hands were up in the air.
Scylla nodded internally, she has the point, most interviews are during the day.
"Me. Now, why are you here? You are disturbing my interview." He said.
"If I know, you just don't want to join the dinner!" Stella started to throw tantrums.
"Exactly and I'm very vocal about it." He said clearly irritated by the tone of his voice.
"You can't do this forever!" Stella was now fuming.
Scylla wanted to leave the room. They forgot that she was there listening to their fight.
"Just stay there, Scylla," Zach said stopping her to stand up.
"Will you get hold of yourself, Stella?" He added trying to calm the woman.
"You are unfair! How long will you be like this? It's been five years, will I wait until ten years?" Stella said shocking Scylla on her seat.
Scylla looked at the two, back and forth. What did she mean by that?
"Stella, don't forget that there is someone in this f*****g room!" Zach said angrily making his face red.
"Why, because you can't be f*****g move on with that woman who just left you like trash? Oh, come, on Zach you are pathetic!" The woman was out of control. She knew how to provoke a man.
Scylla was like, she was dumped by a pale of ice at the same time of hot water. She never thought of him like trash.
Zach shook his head from left to right, with a livid look.
"Leave," Zach said.
It was simple and one can say that it's a word not to ignore, so Stella stepped out of the room while Scylla was left with a piece of information and in a situation, she's not sure she can handle.
"I think, it's nice for me to leave." She said and stood up from her seat.
She was coward again but she doesn't know what to say. The broken man in front of him was because of her. If Stella was telling the truth then she wanted to be eaten alive by her guilt. It is too much to take in. She was too selfish to even think to hug him, she doesn't have the right to touch him nor near him, at all.
"Is leaving became your habit?" She was stopped from walking.
He spat the words with hate and how she wished that this night never happened and how she wished to never set a foot in this city.
Knowing someone you love, hates you is like giving yourself a slow like tortured death.
- Writer
