Chapter 0131
I shrug “Sure, if that’s how you want to take it
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“One word from me and Rowan will be on your ass we’ve danced this game before Avs You know all !
Ave. have to tell Rowan is that you’ve been rude to me and he will blow up on you
Before, that would have made me bow down. I desperately didn’t want to have any more problems with Rowan, so i would let her humiliate me. She would revel in it. Feeling powerful that she was able to reduce me to nothing
I
I give her a smile. “Go ahead. I honestly don’t give a fuck in fact, why don’t you take your phone out night now and call him?” I challenge her.
“You think I won’t?”
“I’m counting on you doing it I reply smugly.
Slowly by slowly, the self–esteem I thought I had lost after Ethan betrayed me was starting to come back Never will I allow a man to make me hit rock bottom again,
“What’s going on here? a stem voice says
I look up to find Corrine staring between us. We weren’t friends, more like acquaintances or business
partner. Her father’s construction firm is the one I use when building Hope Houses. She is the owner of
this restaurant. The construction firm is a family company and she was a shareholder, but the restaurants
were all hers:
“This woman here is causing a disturbance, I suggest you kick her out” Anita rushes to speak. “We were
just minding our own business when she started calling me names”
I smirk. Folding my hands across my chest as I watch her make a fool of herself.
Everyone knows who Corrine is. No one though, knows that we know each other. I was waiting for the
show to start. Unlike Rowan, Corinne wasn’t easily fooled.
“Is that so?” she asks, her voice low.
I never let myself get too close to her. She wanted us to be friends, but at that time I thought that no one
would want a loser like me as a friend. Instead I kept her at arm length. Only talking to her when business
was involved.
Anita nods her head. She gives her friends a small signal and they all agree with her. What a bunch of
idiots
I was surprised she called me her friend, but I push the thought away.
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