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Joanna was putting on a facial mask and ready to sleep when her phone suddenly vibrated. She crushed her face but she grudgingly as she got up and took the phone from the table close to the night lamp. Before she could unlock the phone another message came into her phone.
Due to this, the eagerness to see what the message was all about riddled her heart.
In the next splitting second, Joana quickly step down from the bed with a wide expression on her face–her mouth was rippled with curiosity.
It seems like she was left speechless by the content of the message on her phone.
She looked at her phone once more to be sure if she had seen the right thing or it was just her illusion.
But it's true, they were together. Not only that, but Zayn was carrying Bethany in his arms and they looked like a loved-up couple.
Immediately, Joanna dialed the number that had sent the pictures to her as she was anxious to know what more there is to know.
“How did you get hold of those pictures? Hope no one saw you taking those pictures?” Joanna asked as soon as the call got connected. Although, it seems she was frightened but the truth is simply hidden behind the sneaky smile on her lips.
“No one saw me doing so. I have many pictures like this one.......But, you know it was very risky.....”
“It's fine. I know what you mean, I have the money sent to your account right away but you are getting rid of those pictures after handing them over to me. Is that clear?
“I understand, Miss Meyer, but you know how it works.......”
“Don't worry about the money, I'll have it sent right away. Just make sure no one gets their hands on this picture”.
“Alright Miss”
Without waiting for further conversation, Joanna ended the call as she wore a victorious expression on her. His lips were curved into a smirk as she paced around her room while tapping the back of her phone in her palm.
After a while, she stopped in her tracks as she looked through the slight opening of the window.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk, this is going to be a long distracting weekend. I just have to pull the first string and everything will come crashing down. Boom!”
She made a sound of explosion with her mouth as the look of maliciousness in her eyes deepened. Soon enough, the expression wear out as it was soon replaced the normal expression that she has always carried around.
“You have the guts to humiliate in front of that lecherous woman. You made me lose face in front of other people at the office. Just watch how I'll make your lives a living hell, and what's the best way to do so rather than using the both of you?”
She laughed out loud as she looked closely at the pictures of the two people tightly coaxed together in a crumbled hug.
“I don't even have to do much to convince Danica about the two of you. She's gullible, so she would always fall for every silly little evident”.
Just as she was thinking of this matter, her mind suddenly fly back to the event of the day and she was immediately reminded of something which sent her off the hook.
She quickly dialed a number on her home as she waited impatiently for the receiver to pick up the call. However, the receiver seems to have left the phone behind as they were no answers coming from the other end of the line. Due to this, Joanna became agitated and the smile on her face soon disappear.
She kept calling the same number for a while until finally it was picked.
Immediately, Joanna heard a hoarse voice talking from the other end.
The voice was deep and thick as if the owner of the voice was initially stored in a freezer.
“Why didn't you take my calls earlier? Are you courting dead? Tell me do you have any wishes for elimination?” Joanna yelled immediately.
“It's not what you think, Miss Meyer. However, as it is now, I don't care what you are going to do to me because if the young master gets his hands on me. Then, I'm dead meat.” The man replies while breathing heavily–it seems like he was out of breath due to how much he must have run.
“What do you mean?” Joanna immediately change the tone of her voice as she was instantly alarmed by his words.
“The young master, Zayn had caught up with us while we were harassing that woman from earlier, and now he won't let us off the hook. We all managed to run for our dear lives after so much difficulty”.
Hearing this, Joanna instantly felt her blood frozen–Her body temperature soon fell to the lowest point and sweat beard began to form on her forehead.
“If you don't have anything else to say then I'm going to end this call,” The man said in a cold voice when he noticed that Joanna had to go e quiet after he said those words.
Having a cold foot,
Joanna couldn't believe that the hooligan could speak to her in such a harsh voice.
“Don't you dare tell them anything if you and up being caught? Don't you dare mention my involvement in this matter Do you get it?”
Joanna shrieked in a cold, stern angry tone before she ended the call abruptly.
After she ended the call, Joanna tried to calm her nerves as she held onto the phone in her hands rightly.
Initially, she was hyperventilating due to the fear has embedded in her chest.
if grandpa finds out about this then I'm sure going to be deported to the west country.
She clutched her fists tightly and her teeth remained gritted as she paced around in confusion.
Suddenly a glimmer of idea flashed into her mind as she was immediately filled with joy.
“How can I forget something like this? Danica would be my bailout this time. If I cause chaos now, Zayn would be so busy trying to clear everything rather than find who was responsible for this mess. I should leap at this idea now”
She said to herself as she took her phone to have the message forwarded. However, she was struck with another string of ideas as she left her hands hanging around while contemplating.
“It will be no fun if I send the message right now. I want her to flare up and return to the country immediately she saw it, so I'll send the pictures to her in the morning”.
With this thought in mind, Joanna went back to bed as she draped the duvet over her head while placing her phone right beside her on the bee Just in case of an urgent call.
She slept off.
Early morning the next day ..,
Danica woke up from bed with a smile on her face as she remembered that she had finally managed to convince the woman to become her designer for the upcoming show. Not only that, it was finally the last day for their stay in the Maldives before they finally return to the orange city.
because of this, she was overjoyed. And what's more, it's her birthday in a few days, she planned to get Zayn to get engaged to her on that day. However, for that to happen she needed to go back to the orange to make the arrangements.
“Not only it's my birthday but also I'm getting engaged to Zayn”.
Just as she was lost in her dreamy thought, she suddenly heard a loud vibration from her phone as she turned around to see lit up.
She grabbed hold of it from the bed–In an instant, the dreamy expression on her face was soon turned into a look of horror as her eyes popped out in anger.
The murderous look on her face made the atmosphere freeze at that moment and seems like everything has suddenly come to a standstill.
Soon after, it felt as if the place was rotating in a circle as she felt her eyes spinning around as well.
She looked at the picture more closely as she felt the anger in her mind exploding into a dangerous bomb– Anger stricken, she fell back to the bed with her teeth gnashing bitterly and her fists tightened around the phone in her hands.
It seems as though she could reach the woman on the screen of her phone if she pressed harder–However, that's not the case as it was impossible to break through to her.
“How dare you miscreant of a woman, think of getting even an inch close to my Zayn talk more of clinging into his arms like this? How did you think of doing a thing like this? You think I won't know that you have such vile plans because I was away for a little while?” Danica stood up abruptly as she fumed with undiluted anger While deep smoke popped out of her nostrils.“Just you wait and see, I won't let you off so easily. I'm going to strip you of your dignity, you're going to tell the stories with your very own mouth. I promise you”.
She shouted agitatedly.
“I cant let her make a fool out if me like this ,I need to go back to orange city and deal with her on my own terms. She just can't barge into our lives and take Zayn away from me after all I have done to keep him with me all these tears. No!, I can't let that happen. Not right under my watch, what will everyone say about me if that happens? I'll be made the laughing stock of the city.No!” She should her head vigorously as she stood up from the bed to go find Jane to go book the tickets for their return.
While she was about to go out, her eyes suddenly fell on the side of Bethany's face–She noticed the place seemed injured and there was blood oozing out, although it was the picture was dark, so it wasn't clear enough for everyone to see that the woman was Injured. Not only, but the woman's eyes were also slightly closed.
Noticing this fact, Danica calmed herself down as she was reminded of the fact that Zayn was not the type of person to go chasing after women.
Especially not a woman like Bethany!
She was nowhere close to his league and she was sure that Zayn has very high taste in women, even though he was stuck with Giselle for years.
“What was I going to do? I really wanted to leave Miss Burnett behind and go back to Orange city? How foolish of me, that would have been the end of the road for my career. I'll deal with Bethany later, but right now I need to stay close to Erica until the project is done”.
“I need to see the rest of this story”
She said as she picked up her phone to call Joanna.