Jessica’s pov
Everything seemed to be crumbling in front of my eyes, and I began to question if it was time to flee. I was squandering both my time and my attractiveness. Josh was not just overweight, but he had also lost his silly brain and was no longer interested in fighting either for the company or our marriage.
He hadn’t slept since he laid his eyes on Thalia, for the past two days he was up all night drinking himself to death and blaming me for our childless marriage. I almost snapped and told him the truth the other day when Victor walked in and whisked me away.
The insults were beginning to be too much for me and for all the wealth and power Thalia acquired his only focus was the fact that she was pregnant while I was not.
I couldn’t understand why Victor insisted on not telling his obnoxious son everything. We wouldn’t have gotten to the point where everything was too messy to tell him if we hadn’t chosen to lie to him in the first place.
I needed to start planning my next step, but I had no idea what to do; no agency wanted to sign me, despite the fact that I had never worked for Gentex, my crime was that I was married to Josh.
Thalia and her useless finance made sure that no company hired me. I did not require proof. Victor was correct; she was the source of our misery.
I had intended to offer her my piece of mind yesterday, but she wasn’t in her office, not even Victor was successful enough to find her at the office. It was as if she materialized out of nowhere to notify us that we were being screwed and then vanished.
Her foolish employees didn’t know her address, and she didn’t have a page or a social media account. Her line was off, she vanished completely off the face of the world.
What was even weirder was the fact that it had been two years since anyone saw her Fiance. Everything seemed to be out of whack and nothing was making sense.
The door opened and Victor walked in “Get your coat, we need to talk,” he ordered.
“Did you manage to locate the sc*mbag?” I enquired.
“Forget about her for a moment,” he murmured, motioning me to join him. I could tell he was furious, so I grabbed my coat and followed him to his car. He drove for a few minutes before stopping and telling me to exit the vehicle. I took a look around and realized we were parked in the center of the street. “Can you tell me what’s going on?” I inquired.
“Just get out of the car,” he answered.
I got off, and he did the same.
“What’s going on?” I enquired.
“Brandon Fraser has ears everywhere, and our house could be bugged,” he explained.
I stared at him confused, “so that’s why I brought you here? Are you saying he and ugly Thalia have been watching us?”
“That’s how Brandon works; right now, my people are sweeping the house and office for anything,” he responded.
My stomach dropped as I realized Thalia would have had a front-row ticket to all the sh*t that went on in my useless life. I knelt in shame, feeling like crying, but instead ended up yelling at the top of my lungs.
I wanted Thalia, I wanted her head on the silver platter. The b*tch had seen all the hell her ex-husband had put me through.
“Calm down,” Victor stated, “I’m not even on the terrible news yet.” What was worse than Thalia knowing everything, I thought to myself as I glanced up at him?
“Do they know Josh is impotent?” I asked, if they were watching us it was only inevitable.
“No, we’ve never talked about it in the house, and if they knew, Thalia would have already informed Josh to spite him.”
“You are correct,” I replied.
“Anyway, almost all of our shareholders have sold their shares to a private buyer,” he remarked. “After consulting with lawyers, we discovered our people are secretly selling off and jumping off the sinking ship.”
“Does Josh know?” I stood up and asked.
“He’s too deranged to care,” he replied.
” Brandon Fraser,?” I posed the question.
“That’s how he works; he’s gradually taking over the company while we were dealing with the lawsuits.”
He grabbed my hands and said, “We found the individual who has been sabotaging us all this while.”
I felt like I was going to suffocate as he told me to breathe in, I had always assumed our misfortune was due to karma. Even when the news of Thalia’s disappearance broke, I felt horrible for her when in actual fact she was the one responsible for the hell I was going through
“Calm down, Jessica; I need you to be strong for what I’m about to say,”
“I want Thalia to die, and I want her to die forever!” I screamed at the top of my lungs.
“But first, we have to make sure they don’t find out regarding your incapacity to conceive,” he explained.
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