Another Billionaire
Danner
Of all your life!! I can't believe my eyes.
Is that Loraine I see on my tv screen on that dating show with Dordrich? I knew she had an invite, but she didn't tell me it was going to air tonight. If I hadn't happened to be zipping, I would never have known.
I keep watching as she and Dordrich are clearly fooling around. If I didn't know the two already have a hot sexual relationship, I might have fallen for it too. Their questions and answers are so suggestive as if they're verbally making love to each other. Jealousy stirs to my head, I could kill that man!
I can't stand it anymore.
I turn the television off and I take my phone out of my pocket. “Hey, that assignment, I'm in a hurry. If you can, you can even strike today," I let the man know. He chuckles. “Are you in trouble already, Danner? I just saw the man with your wife on television. Is that why you want to finish him? Don't worry, we're on your case. But his wife is home now so we have to wait until tomorrow morning. Get the money ready."
Money! That's always what these guys are about.
Now that I know Loraine won't be here tonight, I can go to bed. Staying awake means worrying about what this Fellogan is doing to my wife right now. I go for his blood! Tomorrow I want to hear that he is under severe stress. He has the last night with my Loraine.
The next morning, I decide to go to my company. Loraine told me about it so I don't have to fake that amnesia story there. I want to spend my time well while I wait for news from the boys. Good news.
Enjoying my ride, I now drive into the parking lot in my Maserati. When I enter the lobby, the receptionist rushes over to me. “Mr. Winfield, you're back! What a pity that no one knew beforehand otherwise we would have made it a great entry. Welcome".
My mood is high, I make a courteous bow to her and together we walk into the staff elevator. Arriving on my work floor, my secretary jumps up. “Danner! Have you really recovered to the point where you can go back to work? Loraine didn't tell us anything about it." She is clearly delighted to see me.
I wrap my arms around both ladies and we walk into my office. With a wave, I invite them to take a seat in front of my desk. “And tell me the latest news before I go into a staff meeting. I want to know everything. Who goes with whom and whose heart is broken”. They laugh till it cramps as I get some wine from my private cooler.
Listening to their chatter, I pour for the three of us.
“What did you think of Loraine on the dating show last night, Mr. Winfield?”, the receptionist asks. I see a mean flash in her eyes, but it's gone quickly. “That was for a good cause. I hope Fellogan isn't imagining too much," I joke. “She put this off to be with me after the accident. Loraine supported me continuously, even leaving her luxury to stay in a hospital apartment close to me. For almost a whole month. Who loves me more than my beautiful fiancée?!”
“Ooohh, but Dordrich is also a panty-dropping handsome hunk, Danner. He broke many women's hearts when he married Elena five years ago. But of course, she has tough competition. Loraine is not inferior to her, in fact, she beats Elena many times at a beauty pageant”, my secretary adds.
I laugh hoarsely and pour myself some more wine. “The only difference is that he can keep Elena with him for the rest of his life and I will soon make Loraine mine forever. Then he has it checked.”
Both ladies clear their throats. “Where were you last night, Danner? Did Loraine come home from the dating show?”, the secretary asks with a grin on her face. I look at her strangely, she has never been so personal to me. Look, I usually have a friendly relationship with my staff, but there are limits. And this question is clearly a violation of that. “What does your question mean? Do you suggest something?”, I ask her, looking straight at her.
“Have you read the latest posts in gossip online, Mr. Winfield?”, the receptionist chimed in, taking out her phone.
“Well, my interest is more in factual figures with which I can pay your salaries than unverified gossip”, I answer her dryly.
"Well, then I suggest you read that gossip from today because there is a lot about your life in it that you don't know yourself," she responds, rolling her eyes. Her tone alarms me. She is still scrolling on her phone.
“I don't mean to be rude to you, but the online gossips are full of news about your lovely fiancé Loraine and her date Dordrich. And about being unverified, well there's so much photo material with it, you're an ox if you don't believe it." She extends her hand with the phone to me and I take it from her.
And there I see a collage of photos, Loraine intimately in Dordrich's arms as they walk across a bridge, kissing passionately in a restaurant with his hand buried in her hair. There is a very romantic one where Loraine leans her back against Dordrich holding her tight over the shoulders as they watch the setting of the moon from a penthouse balcony.
Danner's humiliation is complete! Not only does he lose face with his staff, but also with his business partners. It was he who gave prominent interviews about his engagement to Loraine and how much in love they still were.
And now his precious lover is in the arms of a handsome billionaire in almost all online gossip magazines.
With a red face, he takes his jacket, throws it over his shoulders and leaves the workplace in large strides.
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