Chapter 3: Conered

I looked on ignoring the call and I was grateful that I had brought along with me a pair of sunglasses.

One part of my mind still hoped he was the one calling, that alone would show me that he had cared a little bit.

If not for anything but for the night we had spent together tangled together in each other's arms savoring the moment.

I let the phone ring not wanting to pick the call from anybody just yet and it could also be possible that it was Liam's bitch.

Looking for a job at a restaurant looked bad enough as i was once worked as the secretary of a billionaire, a job I took pride in.

A cat horned loudly behind me making me jump out of my toes in fright.

I turned to face the driver who had pulled up beside me, ready to give him or her a piece of my mind for doing that, what if I was hypertensive?.

The driver wind down making me frown visibly, "you don't look so pleased to see me Natasha" Arielle said, the way my name was came out of her mouth made me roll my eyes.

"What are you doing here?" I asked her, she no longer had right to boss me around as I no longer walked for her fiancee.

"Nothing, just stopped by at my cousin's restaurant" she said making my eyes widened

There was no restaurant on this street except the one I had visited to apply for a job.

I wanted to burst out laughing, Arielle was definitely referring to my failed interview here, she was the reason why I wasn't given an opportunity to get interviewed at all.

Why I was judged at the entrance of the door even before I spoke?.

"What do you want from me?", Wanting to leave here, the sun was damn hot.

"Why don't I drive you home?" She asked with a smile, it looked sweet but I knew Arielle was more like a wolf in the sheep's clothing and wasn't one to be trusted at all.

Even if she'd offer me a job immediately, I would decline because she was like the devil who would offer you the world but in exchange of something far more worse than it.

"No thank you, I'd rather pass" I replied and moved to pass when she said, "you'd rather walk under the sun to the bus station than accept a free ride".

"Do you hate me that much?" She asked making me frown as she added, "that you can't survive a minute in my presence".

There was something about the way she said it that made it feel like a dare. It was almost like she was saying 'you are so scared that you can't even spend a minute with me'.

With so much reluctant, I entered her car and almost sigh in relief as the air conditioner wiped away heat.

Arielle smirked before driving off, I was wowed by the interior of her car and honestly I didn't even know what car is this but it was beautiful.

"I called you today Natasha" she stated making me roll my eyes thankful for the coverage the sunglasses provided.

"And even a few minutes back" she added.

"Yeah and if you watched I missed it unconsciously" I replied before looking out of the window.

"Why?".

"Why?" I asked her back unable to understand if she was asking me why I had ignored her call or why I didn't checked the caller ID.

"Yeah, why? There has to be a reason as to why you are ignoring people's call Tasha" she teased.

Just then I knew exactly what she was talking about and was referring to, it was no doubt the fact that I was disposed from her fiance's company like trash.

I wondered how she got to find out?.

"What do you want?" I asked her looking away. I smiled immediately I looked out of the window, we were so close to my house and with the way she was going, I'd be home in a jiffy.

"Look no need to continue beating around the bush, whatever shit happened between you and Liam last night should be in the past just as your job has become a thing of the past" she began as she pulled up in front of my house.

"Just so you know my ears and eyes are everywhere and I'm fully aware of your mom's ailment or should I say condition?, Whatever!".

"Stay away from my man and I would stay away from your business too"

I scoffed in disbelief, could it be by any chance that I was actually called by her to be threatened.

"Are you threatening me?" I asked her making her laugh.

"Threatening you say, all I have to say for you is for you to stay the further away from Liam, the more you stay away from him, the safer you are, now get out". And that was what ended our conversation that evening

(Three days later)

It was three days since Arielle and I had that confrontation and I was so tired of staying home.

I tried calling up a few friends to find out if they had any opening or job for me and planned to give up if Sandy answer is negative too.

"Hey stranger" she greeted and without letting me speak, she said, "I wonder why you haven't called even after calling all of our friends".

I tried apologizing but I honestly had to response for her yet.

"There's a job offering and if you can met me in five, it's yours".

"You're kidding right?".

"Yeah tell that to me in two hours" she added before hanging up.

I ignored the nauseous feeling I had been feeling since morning and the lingering taste of vomit in my mouth.

I ignored mom and sneaked out of the house, what was going to my response to her If she asks why I skipped work all this while.

Liam was my past now and so was the depression I had almost fell into.

I was going to walk back to the top and hopefully higher than before, this job opening was a sign that the universe was indeed smiling in my favor.

**Arielle POV**

I watched her leave with a smile plastered on her face, wherever she was going to must be the cause of her smile.

She had no cause to smile after ruining my home even before it happened.

My wedding to Liam was finally fixed this weekend but yet she ruled his mind.

Liam even told that lousy friend of his that he was thinking of meeting up with her and give her back the job, he told them he felt pity for her cause of her mother's condition and he also got to find out she was a virgin before whatever they had.

He even compared me with her

He had compared me with this nobody and thought I'd let it go just like that?

In rage the first thing that came to my mind was running her over and driving off but then that didn't seem like the best way.

She wouldn't be able to feel what I was feeling and I knew the perfect punishment for sleeping with my man.

Her Mom.