Chapter 2 marrying you

“Hey! Babe, where are you?” came Joe’s voice soon after I pressed the cell phone against my ear.

Rubbing my forehead, I stayed silent.

"Hello! Quynh, are you there?"

“I am at my apartment, why?” I replied shortly.

“Don’t lie."

Rolling my eyes, I replied, “Why would I lie?”

“I am at your apartment and I know that you are not here. Now don’t waste my time and tell me where you are,” he retorted.

“Why are you there? You should have informed me before coming.”

“Don’t change the topic, Quynh. Tell me where the hell are you?” The pitch of anger in his voice was increasing which I was able to find out in no second.

“I have come out jogging, no need to be mad.”

“What? Look at your watch, don’t you think you are getting late for the office?”

Glancing at my wristwatch, I questioned, “What time is it? I didn’t wear my watch.”

“What? Why are you not wearing that expensive watch which I brought for you?” he grumbled, making me feel irritated.

“I lost it, okay? Just don’t keep on irritating me,” I said breathing heavily.

“What? You lose that watch? How can you be this careless? Do you even know how much it cost?”

“Yeah, probably the cost of your brain,” I muttered and disconnected the call.

I took off the watch and dropped it in the trash bin. As I was getting dressed, I heard my cell phone ringing repeatedly, but I turned deaf to it. As I was ready to get out of the room, I turned on the screen to glance at the time but my eyes fell on the message notification that was shown on the home screen.

Taking a closer look at it, my heart thumped out loud. I was not able to believe it, so I pinched myself to find if I was not dreaming. Just a while ago I wanted everything to be a dream but now I wanted it to be a reality.

Maybe this was the phenomenon of life… sometimes we want reality to be a dream and sometimes want the dream to be reality…

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"Love, when are you going to throw Quynh out of this company? I am nauseous and weary of having this secret romance hiding with you. Bickering with her every single day makes it even worse."

Hearing my boyfriend, Joe said this to my boss, Emma, I was no longer able to hold back my tears. It gushed down my eyelids just the way the volcano erupts. I started to feel pain in my throat and spin going numb.

My heart was pounding out loud and the chills were running through my veins. For the last fifteen minutes, I was struggling to make a knock on the door, walk in and place my resignation letter on the desk.

But things didn’t seem as simple as that. It was getting tough to make the move. This was my final tolerance to tolerate their betrayal. Once placing the letter it would probably come to an end and my fresh life would commence in a new company.

But hearing them chuckling, kissing, and back-biting about me was making it hard for me to walk in. Though they were the ones who were supposed to be ashamed, I was feeling ashamed of them.

It had just been two weeks since the day I found Joe cheating on me with my boss. I was breaking down since that day when I came to know that they were having a secret romance on their business trip. So, the previous night I went to the pub to ease my heart but had no idea I would end up having my one-night stand with a stranger.

Since the day I got to know about them I was struggling hard to place my resignation letter on her desk, but I was in a great dilemma. I desperately needed a job and was not ready to take any risk at the moment. But things took their perfect turn when I got the text of being selected by a reputable company the morning of having a one-night-stand.

It was finally the day to get rid of them. I was seeing the ray of hope far from them. I wiped my tears and took a deep breath, when I was finally ready to go in, I heard Emma speaking.

"No, darling, we cannot throw her out at this moment. We have a contract with a reputable company in town, you know that, right? The payment is huge and they want everything to be perfect.”

“But…”

She interrupted him, “at this moment we cannot afford to lose her. You clearly know how hard-working she is and right now she is the backbone of this company. We need her until the event ends. Let's say she is that Alladhin’s magic lamp for our company until we are done with our wishes.”

Hearing her I clenched my fist tight with anger simmering inside. The nervousness of walking in had now converted into a rage. Also the fact of knowing that they needed me made me feel happy.

'Okay, take a deep breath, step into the office, place the letter on her desk and bid final goodbye to her. Pick up your belongings and walk out of the company. Make it simple like that, Quynh. Show them you are the Quynh, who don't need them,' was what I had said to myself a while ago to cheer myself up.

But I literally had no idea my plan would backfire this badly hearing their talk outside the door and imagining their romance in my head. I wanted to cry so loud but I was compelled not to show my tears for betrayal love.

Two years we dated and I had never thought that he would stab my back in this long relationship. I trusted him blindly and loved him so heartily but he paid me back with his betrayal love.

Eventually, after a while, I turned around thinking to walk to the washroom and prepare myself again but suddenly I heard Emma saying, “don’t worry after we are done with our wishes you can propose to me to marry you in front of her. In that way, we don’t need to kick her out or have to explain to her about our relationship. One move and she will be gone and… I will also be marrying you.”

“Really? Then I better start looking for a ring,” Joe said and I heard him chuckling.

Silence hovered around. I had a deep feeling that they were kissing and I was having their image on my head. Freaking out in disgust I leaned closer to the door but unfortunately, the door opened wide and I fell hard on the floor.