Love from My Dominant Boss novel Chapter 38

“Really? But Anna seems like a serious and hard-working person. Besides, she always looks so innocent. Why would she do such a thing?”

“Ah well, people nowadays are willing to do anything to succeed and climb up the social ladder. I just knew that she’s no decent person ever since she joined the company. She pretends to be a diligent person, but in reality, she’s actually seducing an old man like our supervisor. What a slut!”

“Hear, hear. Mr. Skeete is already in his forties. Not to mention he’s old and unsightly. Anna is really going all out if she can put up with such a man.”

My colleagues’ gossip drifted into my ears loud and clear. Hearing that, I felt utterly aggrieved.

When did I ever seduce Conrad Skeete? Did they see me doing it with their own eyes? Ugh! People nowadays are truly good at making up stories and jumping to conclusions! It was him who wanted to force himself on me first! So why are they saying that it was me who seduced him now? They’re simply lying through their teeth!

At that moment, I was gripped by the urge to rush out and counter their accusations by telling them the truth. However, I suppressed that urge, knowing that they wouldn’t believe me even if I explained things. Instead, they would despise me all the more.

Ah, forget it! It’s enough that I know what kind of person I am. There’s no need to explain anything to others. I gave myself a pep talk.

Nonetheless, tears coursed down my face uncontrollably. I kept telling myself not to be bothered, but the feeling of being accused wrongly was truly awful.

It wasn’t until they had left that I walked out of the toilet stall. As I gazed at my red-rimmed eyes in the mirror, distress swamped me.

I’ve been working wholeheartedly ever since I joined the company, but never had I thought that I’d be “rewarded” by the reputation of seducing my superior. Argh! This world is truly unfair!

In the afternoon, I could clearly sense that all my colleagues were looking at me differently. I tried my best to feign ignorance and simply kept my head buried in work, believing that they would one day understand the kind of person I was as long as I worked hard enough.

In the next few days, no one said a single word to me. Even when my colleagues bumped into me, they pointedly ignored me. On the other hand, Conrad deliberately made life difficult for me so that I would leave Joyful Success.

He heaped so much work on me that I had to work overtime until ten o’clock every day before I could get off work. I knew that he was purposely dumping work on me to goad me into resigning.

However, I had long since resolved that I would never resign no matter how he picked fault with me.

On that particular day, I was still working overtime. It was ten o’clock at night when I finally finished going through all the documents on my table. Stretching, I then lumbered to my feet wearily. After packing up, I made to leave the office.

But at that precise moment, my cell phone rang with a call from Justin. My brows creased as a wave of irritation surged within me. Without even thinking about it, I declined the call.

Alas, he seemed determined, for my cell phone kept ringing incessantly. In the end, I answered the call when I couldn’t take it any longer.

“Have you lost your mind, Justin Xenakis? Why are you calling me nonstop?”

I couldn’t be bothered to be civil with him, and my voice was cold without a hint of emotion.

“I’d like to talk to you, Anna. I’m waiting below your office. I know you’ve been working overtime in the past few days.”

On the other end of the phone, Justin sounded much gentler than usual. In the past, I would’ve been jumping with joy if he wanted to see me, but there wasn’t the tiniest spark of delight within me now as I no longer loved him.

“There’s nothing to talk about between us. I don’t want to see you,” I declined without an ounce of hesitation.

It’s over between the two of us, so there’s no need for us to contact each other anymore.