Chapter 2

“What? Don’t look at me like that. I don’t love you anymore. You are nothing but a burden to me.” Toby said with impatient in his voice

“But you promised to stay with me forever.”

“Look at me very well. I am about to become the next president in my family company. I don’t need a weakling like you without any money to her name. Nina is good for me and I just realized that I love her.”

“Yes Emily, we love each other and we will be getting married soon” Nina couldn’t help but throw it in her face. She loved her humiliation so much that she went ahead and kissed him passionately in front of her.

“Toby you stand there and say all this to me, after I have given everything for your sake. I am going to say this for the first and last time. As long as I live I will never forgive you.”

“Who needs you forgiveness?” Toby sneered

“Emily, Ruth finally called. I hate the day I brought you in to this house. You have been nothing but a disappointment to all of us in this house. In fact I want you out of this house and out of my company.

This was the last straw, she didn’t expect all this to happen to her all in a day. She was now homeless with no job at all. How is she going to survive?

But she swore that she was going to make them pay no matter what.

“Don’t worry I was already on my way out. I do not want to keep seeing your face either” She turned to go pack her few belongings. At the back of her mind she didn’t even know where she was going to go but she had to leave and figure out something.

“You can go sleep under a bridge for all I care.” She heard Nina say.

When she stepped out of the house, she was surrounded by so much darkness and the wind was blowing like crazy. This particular day was a winter season and it was unusually cold outside. The only thing on her mind was to get as far away from the house as soon as possible.

But she was sad for leaving suddenly because there was one person who has really treated her well since she arrived in the Davis house. Her grandmother, she was the only person she could run to whenever things were not going well.

Grandmother Martha always had a way of making her feel better even if she was in trouble and she promised that she will be there for her no matter what. She never approved of how her son and his wife mistreated Emily.

Now a single tear travelled down her cheeks as she remembered her fondly.

“I will miss you grandma. I promise I will come back one day just for you. Right now I have to leave”

The first thought that came to her mind was to go to the bar and drown her sorrows. She had heard from the few people she had interacted with during her university days that alcohol makes you forget your worries.

Emily was an innocent girl, but today she wanted to be very bad. She had never had any alcohol in her life but there was always a first time for everything.

She remembered that she had Mira’s phone number and decided to call her to be her companion.

“Hello Mira”

“Yes Emily, how can I help you?”

“I really need your help. Do you mind coming out for a drink. I am in trouble?”

“Gosh Emily what happened? You can just come over to my place and we can talk about it and find a solution. Don’t do anything hasty.”

“It wasn’t my wish to disturb you at this hour of the night but you are the only friend I have. Please come to the Homeland Bar I really need to get something out of my system.”

“Alright wait for me I will be on my way”

Mira came shortly after she arrived at the bar with her luggage, Emily had some money on her and she was going to spend it all in the alcohol.

 It was the most expensive bar in the town and several influential people frequented it. But that was the least of her problem as she had a plan in her mind and she was hoping that Mira could help her.

They sat down at the counter and ordered the bar attendant to give them something strong.

“Slow down Emily, You have no experience in drinking at least start with something with less alcohol like a beer.”

“Alright bar man give us what my friend has recommended for me.”

The bar attendant smiled and handed the ladies each a bottle of beer. Emily just took one and she was already drunk,

“Now talk” Mira demanded.

“I have been thrown out of the house and fired from the company. I have no boyfriend as he claims that my sister is better than me and I am a loser who will only drag him behind.”

“Those people are so heartless, you haven’t even worked for the company for two days and you have already been fired. “

“But I cannot keep quiet anymore for all the things that they have done for me. I am going to revenge and no one will be spared. I swear they will all pay for all that they have put me through.”

“Oh….Emily, when you talk like that I really start to get worried, but tell me what you have in mind. You have my unconditional support and I will help you as much as I can.”

“I need you to connect me to the Richest Billionaire in the city. I will be a faithful wife for him, in exchange of him giving me enough capital to start my own real estate company. Can you imagine I am also a designer and I have helped Nina to excel in several cases but she took all the glory and despised me.”

“I want to show them that even a faithful dog has her own limits and I am very confident with my abilities I will excel.”

“Oh….Emily has it come to this. Is there any other way?”

“I wish there was but I have tried”

Just as they were still in deep discussion a certain man walked in and went straight to the private room. Mira had interacted with a lot of influential people because of her public relations officer role at the Davis Corporation. So she recognized the man immediately and signaled Emily to take a close look at him.

“Do you see that hot guy, he is mysterious but I know he is very wealthy. He can give you what you want because among other businesses he owns a very successful investment company with a net worth of 100 billion dollars.”

“He is so unapproachable, look at how little interest he shows all those ladies lusting over him? However he is very handsome more than even that jerk of my ex-boyfriend who humiliated me in the worst way possible” Emily commented.

“He is currently a bachelor, so try to gain as much courage as you can so you can go talk to him. I heard that he is not easy to please, so I would advise that you be careful with how you want to approach him. Emily, I wish that there was something else that we can do apart from this.”