Twisted Fate

“Please Miss Lisa, she’s here for an interview and the boss would definitely have approved of her being here for the…” The receptionist was trying to defend Ella when Lisa Anderson cut her off.

“If you meddle in this, you can be sure to be out of job” Lisa threatened and next glared at Ella with utmost hatred “your interview has been cancelled and now, get the hell out of here”

“Are you this rude?” Ella asked. If she can’t have the interview, she would return home to her mother. After all, she never applied with the company.

But this poor brat is definitely not the boss. She might be a family with the boss or a stakeholder but that doesn’t mean she could misbehave towards her.

Lisa stared at Ella with utmost hatred. How dare she utter such words at her? She must ensure that this filthy thing never gets a job in the Foster cooperation.

Without another word, Ella went away. The last thing she wants now is to have any form of misunderstanding with anyone.

She’s yet to recover from what happened yesterday at the restaurant. That incident sent her jobless. For now, she just wants to go her way, if anyone tries to trip her, she would pretend not to see the fellow and walk away.

Lisa endured until Ella was completely out before she took the elevator to the 15th floor where the CEO office.

The receptionist sighed softly and shook her head. Miss Lisa is too much. She’s too authoritative and takes herself too high. One day, who knows she might fall and that fall will be disastrous.

She’s not yet married or even engaged with the boss and she wants to control the affairs of the company. Who gave her such power?

Alex Foster was waiting for the tram he suddenly set up to interview Ella to bring him words. He had already told them she must be offered the job whether she does well or not in the interview.

But rather than receiving a response from his assigned manager who supposedly should have interviewed or been doing it at that moment, it was Lisa Anderson who knocked.

“Yeah, come in,” Alex answered from within. When the door opened, his countenance changed when he saw it was Lisa who walked in.

He wasn’t expecting her. She wasn’t the one he wanted to see at the moment. Infact, he least expected her to visit this early in the morning.

“Hello darling” Lisa Anderson chimed. She was here the previous day and Alex sent her away as if she was plaque with leprosy.

But what can she do, she just wants to be by his side. Even if he didn’t marry her, all her life, She was ready to stay by his side alone.

The prestige of being referred to as Alex Foster’s girlfriend is enough to get her a pass wherever she gets to. Even though she knows he goes after other women, she has learnt to swallow her grievances and jealousy.

“Don’t you have work to do? Why are you here?” Alex snapped at her. He hissed between gritted teeth and looked away.

“Don’t start Alex. I missed you and I came to check on you. Is anything wrong if I care about my baby?” Lisa sounded offended.

“I’ve always told you that when I need you, I will send for you, right?” Alex demanded, his facial expression becoming icy cold.

The atmosphere became chilly and cold. The aura coming from him was intimidating and domineering.

“I can’t wait for you to call me before I come to check on you. I can’t Alex, because I love you” Lisa said in a shaking and breaking voice.

There was a needle dropping silence that lasted for a few seconds before Alex seemed a little calm. He took his phone and dialled a certain person’s number.

“Are you done with your assessment?” He asked, his voice cold and chilling. Lisa took a seat on the sofa and crossed her legs.

She was staring at the handsome face of Alex as he was talking to someone on the phone. Suddenly, she saw him squinted and his facial expression became cold.

Soon Alex hung up and placed his cell phone on his desk while he stared at Lisa with hostility. She had ruined his plans again.

Why can’t she just mind her business and not meddle with his affairs and that of the company. What the heck had she done?

“Why are you interfering with my business and the activities of the company?” Alex demanded, standing up with one of his hands in his pants pocket.

“What now, what have I done this time?” Lisa demanded, shrugging her shoulders. Last that she remembers, she hadn’t done anything wrong except sending that peasant away.

“You sent an applicant away. She came for an interview and you sent her out of the premises..” Alex was explaining when Lisa interrupted him.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

“Come off it Alex. Such a sharp tongued girl cannot work in this…” She was in the defence. She had to say something to justify her actions.

Alex furiously went to her and pinned her jaw between his fingers “who the fuck are you to interrupt me while I am talking? Besides, what is your business with the girl in question?

Who asked you to take decisions in matters that do not concern you nor were you invited for your opinion. Who gave you the right to interfere with my order?” He yelled at her.

“I’m sorry Alex. I didn’t know it was your order for her to be interviewed, really sorry” Lisa apologised. It’s obvious she was lying and she knew too well that Alex cannot be deceived.

Alex flinged her jaw off and dialled the manager’s in charge of employment “I want that girl to be employed ASAP”

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“That woman is so annoying mom. I don’t know who she was but I definitely know that she held a certain position in that company.

She was rude to me and talked so lofty and high, looking down at me like I was less than a human mom. So I left, or rather, she ordered me to leave” Ella explained, taking a bite from the apple in her hand.

“It’s alright my dear. You don’t have to work yourself up. Everything is going to be alright”Sarah pacified her daughter.

Being poor doesn’t mean they are not humans. Everyone cannot be wealthy. There has to be a lower class. People like her and Ella.

Besides, they weren’t really poor. Analdo Smith made them to be like this. He ruined them when he got his mistress pregnant and gave everything to her.

He eventually disappeared out of New York leaving her and her daughter with nothing. The pain, the shock and the depression that came with such behaviour from the man she loved made her develop a stroke.

If Analdo Smith had been with them, if their family of three had been together, they never would have been like this. Ella won’t have to drop out of school to take care of her.

As these thoughts flashed through Sarah’s mind, her eyes became teary and she sniffled. Her sniffling attracted Ella’s attention and she looked at her mother.

Their eyes locked and Sarah’s tears gave way. She cleaned her tears, trying to smile through it but Ella became unhappy again.

“Mom, you just said everything is going to be alright. Why are you sobbing now?” Ella asked, no longer having the appetite to continue eating her apple.

“No baby, I wasn’t sobbing. Silly girl” Sarah lied, smiling With her reddened eyes.

“You are not sobbing mom? Okay what about the tears in your eyes?”She inquired, looking as another stream of tears ran down her mother’s face again.

“It is not tears, it is the rain” Sarah lied. This time her lies were too open to be believed. Sarah immediately regretted what she said. She couldn’t get the right excuse for her daughter’s inquiry.

“Huh.. mom, rain?” Ella couldn’t hold back her laughter.