Problems

Chapter 10.

Anastasia's POV.

I waited in the office as Tristan commanded me to. He told me not to leave my office. 

"Why would you want to bring a child into the office? Do you know what the world might say?" I heard Penelope's voice as she followed Tristan into the office after a few minutes.

I saw Tristan holding my kid's wrist. 

"Mummy!" Ashley removed her hands from his grasp, and she ran towards where I was giving a very huge hug.

"I really miss you, momma." Ashley gave me a huge hug while I was sitting. I noticed the two friends had stopped arguing.

It turned out they were staring at me.

"You see? Why do you always like this whenever you are around her? I have always been the one protecting your reputation ! This is how you repay me?" Penelope shouted at Tristan.

How is he whenever he's with me? Does she even know what she is saying at all?

"This is not about repaying, and who told you she was staying in my office?" "This is my business, not yours. I also hate it whenever a baby talks." Tristan complained.

Ashley and I wouldn't stop staring at them.

"Get out of my office now!" Tristan commanded her.

"I don't like seeing two friends fighting because of me, I don't just like it." I muttered under my breath.

The two stopped arguing and looked at me. I have forgotten they are wolves, and they could hear whatever I was saying.

Penelope stopped arguing and then walked out of the room. It wasn't my fault, though.

Tristan went to his seat immediately after the fight happened. Ashley looked at them and then away from my grasp.

Before I knew it, she ran to where Tristan was.

"I am so sorry, sir. Forgive my mom and I." Ashley touched Tristan hand that was on his mouse. Tristan stared at my daughter eyes.

I know they had the same kind of eyes.

"I am not angry at you, dear. It's not your fault that you are here." Tristan patted her, almost ruffling her hair.

"Thank you very much, mister." Ashley said, then ran to me.

"Mummy! I don't want to disturb the young mister, I would go and wait outside for you." She said to me.

"Oh OK." I handed her tablet to her, then she went out of the office. I already texted Cassie that my daughter is coming to her.

"I don't like kids around me." Cassie texted back.

"Oh! You would definitely would. My kid isn't the troublesome type. She took after her father." I assured her.

I don't know who her father was, I don't know how he looks like. Not only that, but I know her father must be the really gentle type. I know that I am the stubborn one, and there is no way she will take after me.

My parents knew what it was like to grow someone like me. I'm sure if they were two of my type, they would have sold us off.

"I should have gone to take her myself. You brought a lot of people's attention by going down there to get her." I told Tristan.

"Do you expect me to say sorry? Do you think they just allow kids into my computer without any verification? You are a new worker, your ID card hasn't been given to you yet. Do you think the guards would allow?" Tristan retorted back.

"You could have sent Cassie! You didn't have to go that far. Do you know how much that is going to affect me during my stay here?" I questioned him.

He doesn't know the pain I had to go through, a lot of people discriminating me because I am a single mom. I will have to go through that at the work place again.

"No matter what, people will get to know that you are a single mom! What are you hiding, exactly? The fact that you don't want to be called a single mom? I didn't tell you to have a one-night stand with a random stranger that doesn't even give a fuck about you." Tristan said with the coldest voice as possible.

That hit me badly in the heart, I never imagined I was going to be talked to like this. I now know the kind of emotions Tristan has towards me.

"He doesn't like me at all, he acts kind to me sometimes because I look pitiful. He is the harsh person, and that is why his emotions looks as if they are always switching." I thought.

"This world is a harsh world, so you better get used to those kinds of harsh words coming from people. There is nothing you can do about it, you just need to get used to it." Tristan added.

"Yes, yes! I just have to get used to it. So I don't need you pitying me, sir. Just act like your usual self when you are around me, and don't pity me at all." I said to him…

"I will have to go for lunch now." I added looking at my time.

I haven't eaten since morning because of this damn forsaken job. My heart was starting to beat very fast, it was so tight that I couldn't even think straight.

I get that kind of feeling anytime I really get angry, and hurt at the same time by words. I walked out of the office, and saw on the chair outside.

"Are you okay, momma?" Ashley noticed me touching my chest, breathing heavily.

"Are you okay? What is wrong with you?" Cassie asked from where she was sitting down.

"I am okay, I just need air." I managed to say.

"You didn't tell me you have a daughter." Cassie stated.

"I just resumed yesterday. We will get to talk later." I indicated to her, telling her that he might be eaves dropping on our conversation right now.

"Just tell me if you are hungry, I will get you something to eat." I told my daughter.

"Okay momma." She replied to me, then I went to get what to eat for lunch.

"She has a daughter! Some said she is a single mother! What a slut." I heard one of the workers said on my way to the company's cafeteria.

I remembered what Tristan told me, I should get used to harsh comment like this, and I shouldn't let there affect me. That is what I am currently doing. I am trying to make sure these words doesn't affect me.

I got to the cafeteria, and some of the workers kept on looking at me in as weird way, acting like high school kids.

Furthermore, I don't what what's wrong with them. If they want to ask me questions, they should walk up to me and stop staring at me that way.

"I wonder who the father of the child is? She looked so pretty, the child doesn't look like her at all." One of the workers said.

"The child might end up becoming someone like her, who knows! A slut like she is." One of the workers said.

They could say bad things about me, but not my daughter. My eyes happened to locate the person who said it.

"Say that again, and I will make sure you regret saying something like that about my kid." I warned her.

"What do you what to do to me exactly? Beat me up? I said your child might end up becoming someone like you! A slut." She stated.

I heaved a deep sigh of relief, while I walked closer to her. I took the fork that was on her table, then stabbed her arm without even thinking.

"Ahhh!" She screamed.

I dropped the fork. On the table then walked out of the café out of the office building to get some fresh air.

"How could she do this? She is a psycho!" One of the workers said while I walked outside. Some were surprised by my act, as they should!

"Woah, it looks as if she wants to get out of the company quickly." Another one of the said.

"If it were me, I would have done the same too. I wouldn't want to watch someone insult my daughter that way." Another one of the workers said.

I take shit to myself, but never to my daughter. I would kill anyone for my daughter to live. I would kill anyone who dares touch my daughter.

I knew what I had to go through to make her the way, I will make sure she doesn't walk in my footsteps. I needed to find her father quickly, by all means.

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I walked back to my office after some time, I'm not sure if the information about what I did reach Tristan yet.

I just did it as an act of self-defence, and nothing else. I don't care if I get sued for what I did. I just did it to protect my daughter.

I reached the office, and started working on the files that I was supposed to work on. It was then Penelope rushed into the room, panting heavily.

"What is the problem?" Tristan stood up. He knew Penelope wouldn't just rush into the room like that.

Perhaps, is it because of what I did?

"A dead body was found with a wolf bite last night. You know what the government can do because of this?" Penelope informed Tristan.

The police rushed into the office, what are the police here for again?

"Miss Anastasia, you are under arrest." The police announced while Tristan eyes met mine. This shouldn't be happening right now.

He sounded so furious.