Chapter 72: Couple At Work
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'Only a few people can do what he did, but I guess that he is super rich and there is nothing they can do to him," Katie said and nodded.
'Why the hell are you even here?" Craig asked and they all stared at him in surprise.
'What?"
'Your fiance is very rich, no, very doesn't cut it out, he is super rich, a magnate, a tycoon, an all generation billionaire, and you are a daughter of the Conrad family, you also know Mr. Cha," Craig explained and everyone nodded before turning to look at her.
'Yeah and your kids said you once dated Mr. Gray and that Heather was your best friend, is that true?" Katie asked and Sapphire nodded, they all gasped in disbelief.
'What are you doing here? Working for him?" Candy asked.
'She has ulterior motives," Jace said and moved to stand in front of her. 'Tell us, what do you hope to achieve by being here?"
'SJAY was mine," Sapphire said and they all stared at her with round eyes.
'What?"
'Yeah. I built it from the scratch, when I dated Oliver I worked for him, I left my family's company and did stuff for him. SJAY was my idea and I funded it but since I was building a future with Oliver, I made it his. He went ahead and betrayed me, he got engaged to her a week before our wedding and branded me as a crazy bitch to everyone," Sapphire said, nonchalantly.
After knowing that those close to her would never judge her for who she is or what had happened to her, her true healing began. She started recovering from what happened three years ago at a sprinting pace.
When something bad happens to someone, the fastest way to make them forget about it is to assure them through words and actions that you couldn't care less about it and Alexander, his family and her own friends made her know that, loud and clear.
It has become easier to talk about her past like it is nothing, she could get the words out now without feeling like something is blocking her throat.
'That is a major ass move on his side," Katie said with a shake of head. 'I hope that you didn't date him for long,"
'It depends on your definition of long but I dated him for nine years,"
'Nine fucking what?" Candy asked.
'The more I hear about this man, the more I hate him, why would you leave your fiance who you were together for nine years for her friend,"
'senselessness at work," Jace said.
'What I want to do is bring this company down, I would get it back from Oliver," Sapphire said and they stared at her weirdly.
'You don't look like you are doing anything to achieve that," Katie said.
'Yeah, I have to agree with Katie on that," Craig affirmed.
'It doesn't seem that way to you," Sapphire said.
'What about the employees here? They would all lose their job if you let the company run down," Jace said and Sapphire nodded.
'I thought about that already, there are some people I want to chase away, those bunch of useless people that Oliver put in important position but for those who dedicate their time and energy into this, I have told Belle to give me a list,"
'Belle is in on it too?" Candy asked with wide eyes and Sapphire nodded.
'Oliver is planning to do some reshuffling, he calls it that but in actuality, all the employees who worked hard to design the product that was just launched would get laid off,"
'What the hell?" Jace said.
'That includes us too," Katie said, turning to look at Candy's face.
'Why would he do that and how did you know?"
'He doesn't want to have employees who have knowledge of almost everything going on since the company was created . He is probably planning something bigger than that but my only guess is that he would give the credits to rich kids who just finished college and are dunce. I heard it from Belle,"Sapphire said and before they could reply, Belle entered and stared at Sapphire.
'Tell me, they already know about it," Sapphire told Belle and the woman moved closer to her and removed a piece of paper from the file she was holding, she dropped it on the table.
Sapphire crossed her legs over one another and rested her chin on her jaw. At that moment she looked very much like a rich CEO of a company. Her stance screamed that position. If she got rid of the clothes and wore a luxurious suit, no one would need to guess it twice.
'What is this?" Craig asked, his eyes skimming over the long list of names on the paper.
'I saw this on the floor, beside the thrasher at the secretary's desk. I think she meant to trash it, I heard her muttering something about mistakenly printing it twice,"
'That still doesn't explain what it is," Katie said.
'It is the list of names of employees to be fired and date they would be and for what reasons, this is what they did for the first set of employees here," Belle explained and they turned to stare at one another, they looked at the name and at the same place, the names of the members on their team was there, all except Sapphire.
They stared at it with wide eyes before they scoffed.
'What do you want us to do to help you? We are ready to do anything," Candy said, her team leader mode activated.
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'Do you know how long I have been waiting for you, I even went to your house and waited for you there, Alexander," Zayn told Alexander who was walking in front of him and the man glanced back at him before facing front.
'I told you what to do but I never went and waited at my house, you just wanted to see Luci," Alexander said and opened a small black door that was in front of him, it led him to the staircase and he went down while Zayn trailed behind him.
'He was really a pain in the ass," Zayn replied and Alexander scoffed.
'You are talking like you were the one that went to take him," He told him and the guy pouted, Alexander stared at his face.
'I really find it difficult to believe sometimes that you are a don of a gang , you don't look menacing at all,"
'I want you to think of me as cute, once you think of someone like that, they are done with life's stress,"
'Cute, my foot, who would think of a six point two feet man as cute, you are a giant," Alexander said and opened the basement door, he stared at nothingness and entered the room. 'Turn on the stupid light," he told him and Zayn rolled his eyes before turning on the light.
'Surprise!" He said as he lit up the room and Alexander stared at the man who was sleeping and tied on the chair.
He had blood all over his face and cuts all over his body, his face was swollen and mouth burst, Zayn walked to him and yanked his hair which made him open his eyes, wide in pain and red from the tears he shed or the hit he got, Alexander couldn't tell.
He picked a chair and sat in front of him, staring at the man's clothes. It was obvious that he just got off work because he was still in his suit. The jacket had been thrown to the side, it was dirty and grim, and his light blue shirt was stained with blood and torn.
His unfocused eyes finally regained their focus and he stared at Zayn's face before turning to look at Alexander, his eyes widened in surprise when he saw the man's face.
'You.."
'Hi, Doctor Mike," He said with a smirk, he looked at his tied legs before staring at his face with a blank expression and eyes that won't take no for an answer.
'He would like to ask you some questions and he won't take silence for an answer, he is worse than me, so you should at least know your fate," Zayn told him as if telling him a secret, Alexander kept staring at the doctor who was so nervous he could tell just by staring at him once.
'What did you do to Sapphire on that night?" He asked with an even voice.
