BROKEN HEART

Two bitter events in their life happened together this morning. She wanted to scream but didn't have the strength; her world was falling apart.

She was crying. Luckily the hallway was still quiet because it was still too early. Her head looked like it was going to burst.

He will need help to follow the activities of this office. He'd better go home. With unsteady steps, he headed for the elevator dragging his suitcase.

Tears were still running down her cheeks.

But his steps stopped when his body bumped into something. Someone, to be more precise. He quickly looked up to see who he had bumped into.

"Sorry..." But to Alina's surprise, her eyes widened perfectly; it turned out that her boss was now standing right in front of Alina.

David looked at Alina flatly without any expression. Then he handed over the phone. After wiping her tears, Alina, with slightly trembling hands, accepted the phone.

"T-thank you, sir."

Alina saluted David and stepped to leave her boss, but her body jerked when David grabbed her hand. David accidentally witnessed what happened to the woman he had been sleeping with.

"Where are you going?!" asked David coldly.

"Ah.., I'm sorry sir, I think I'll just go home," said Alina, sobbing a little.

However, his heart ached at the moment.

"No one is allowed to go home before this event is over! Are you weak? This world is so cruel, what happened to you is nothing, fight the world with your strength, show them that you are not as weak as they think!! " said David with great emphasis.

Alina flinched slightly at her boss's words. But there is a truth; if he left now, it would make Daniel and Cynthia feel victorious and trample on her self-esteem even more.

But he needed clarification about where Daniel and Cynthia had already occupied his room; there was no way he would stay in Anna's room while Anna's lover was in it.

He just let out a shaky breath. The boss's words sounded cold, but they made a glimmer of hope and courage appear in his heart.

The boss was right; he had to face all this. He had been worse off than this when he ran away from his mother. He's used to dealing with problems on his own.

Alina, you are strong, you are strong girl, you have to get up.

David pulled Alina's hand so she could follow him; now, Alina's heart was getting crazier and crazier with this boss's treatment.

"Come with me !" Alina nodded; she didn't want to argue with her boss's orders.

It turned out that David brought Alina back to his room. Alina is still pensive with all this. She can only stand still.

"You stay here, with me; I will make a deal with you!" offered David coldly; now, he just sat on the sofa with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Sit down !" David ordered Alina to sit not far from his place.

"B-but sir?" Alina stammered; she was still confused about what her boss meant.

"I don't accept rebuttals or anything!" Suddenly, Alina covered her mouth.

He had heard rumors about this boss. No one dared to refute it at all. An employee once denied it, but now his fate is unknown. Even his business opponents have the same chance; even the police have just been able to reveal the case.

Everyone thinks that his boss is behind all this. But no one dared to disturb him. Alina doesn't want her life to be in danger, especially after she is free from her stepmother's clutches.

"You clean yourself first, you look a mess!" said David. "Soon the office event starts, Dominic will make a letter of agreement. Oh..yes one more thing. Don't let anyone know about this, or your life is at stake!" said David calmly.

Alina could only nod. He then went to the bathroom.

The clock shows 8 am when the official event begins. All the Guardian Corps company employees had gathered in the hotel ballroom.

This event is only the opening of this activity; the rest they will spend with their respective events. Explore and play at company-owned resorts at will.

Alina now occupied a chair located in the back row. He had been trying to find his friend but couldn't find Anna.

Even that asshole. Ah, never mind, he will not bother about it anymore. She would try to forget about all that had happened this morning.

But now he is confused about his fate, what will happen to his life when his boss offers an agreement, what agreement is that? he was baffled, he could not guess what the contents of the deal offered by his boss. There was worry in him.

Damn, why did his life have to be like this? Leaving Texas and going to New York to escape his stepmother, he has to face another problem.

Amid his thoughts, he caught a familiar figure. His eyes were fixed on the front of the ballroom; the familiar figure already stood. The other thing is that his boss is giving his speech and opening this office event.

Alina still can't imagine it; the man with her last night was the person standing before her. She is stupid.

Hopefully, this is all just a dream, but his core pain tells him it's not a dream. She was just daydreaming during the event until everyone left the ballroom.

He will go out and take a walk; hopefully, he will find Anna soon. At least he needed a friend to chat with. He wanted to return to his room, but considering it wasn't his room before, he canceled his intention.

In the other corner of his eyes, he couldn't take his eyes off the girl he accidentally touched last night. David watched every movement of the girl.

***

Alina closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She suddenly remembered her stepmother's cruel treatment.

She tried to get it all out of her mind. Now he focused on looking at the ocean in front of him. It was so vast, blue, and so beautiful that it comforted her heart a little.

"Mom...Dad... I'm tired..." she muttered quietly.

Remembering the treatment of her stepmother, plus the incident that happened to her, made her shattered. She wanted to cry, but the tears had run out. She still couldn't believe that Daniel would do such a cruel thing to her. She even planned to give her something of value. And stupidly, she handed it over to her boss. Ah, how stupid she is.

Alina took another deep breath; I don't know what other bad things would await her when her boss threatened her, even going to make an agreement, which she inevitably had to sign.

Alina's thoughts were interrupted when she heard several men arguing.

"Okay!! The deal I admit I lost, you useless woman bastard!!" There was an annoying scream from a man not far from Alina.

'Wait, this sounds like," Alina thought.

Alina could hear it but couldn't confirm it clearly, because some trees blocked their view.

"I told you you would lose, haha..." A male voice sounded, accompanied by laughter.

Alina is now careful to eavesdrop; she doesn't want to be caught, she immediately inched slightly away from her place, but she must be able to hear it.

"Shit!! Fucking bitch, that asshole Alina!!" she screamed.

Hearing his name being called, he rolled his eyes. Gosh, what does that mean?

"Pay quickly! You've lost, you can't fuck him, time's up, haha..." The man's laughter grew louder; he won.

I? fuck? Lost? Pay?

Gosh…, he covered his mouth with both hands. His heart ached; it hurt more and more, so all this time, he had been made a bet by Daniel and his friends.

Alina was not stupid; she quickly understood the meaning of their conversation. Alina's emotions exploded; she couldn't hold them in anymore.

He immediately approached them and slapped Daniel roughly.

Instantly they were shocked by Alina's sudden attack. They were making Daniel unable to escape.

"Damn you damn bitch!" cursed Daniel. He stood up and pushed Alina's body until Alina fell on the sand.

"You bastard Daniel!!" shrieked Alina.

"Damn it!! Because of you I lost the bet, damn it!!" said Daniel with emotion.

With difficulty, Alina stood up and faced Daniel. She was about to slap Daniel again. But his hand was held by the man. Who had been with Daniel for a long time with a grinning laugh?

"Good, hold this bitch!" said Daniel with a satisfied smile. Daniel pushed Alina's body, and Alina's body slammed violently against a tree, making her wince in pain.

Before he could say a word, Daniel grabbed Alina by the neck and pressed her head against the tree. It made Alina gasp for breath.

The three men just laughed as if it was a funny incident.

"What do we do with him, huh? What a new toy!" said Daniel. Instantly Alina's eyes widened, and tears escaped from the corners of her eyes.

Will her life end now?

Alina tried to rebel, but in vain; the grip of the two men in her hands was firm. Plus, Daniel still gripped his neck tightly.

Daniel released her grip and then slapped Alina's left cheek hard; Alina's white cheeks now looked red.

"We will torture you!" Daniel smiled evilly, followed by laughter from his friends.

Now Alina can only cry; oh my God, why is her life suffering like this? I ask God to let me meet my parents now.

The sound of applause suddenly sounded clear. They were making everyone turn to the person who came.

"Wonderful!! 3 men against 1 woman! It's very handsome!" the cold words of the man who followed his men behind.

Instantly the three men released their grip on Alina's body. Now Alina's body sagged and fell to the ground. He even coughed and touched his sore neck and cheek due to Daniel's actions.

"Sir .., sorry we were just joking," explained Daniel stammering a little with a clumsy chuckle.

"Oh yes?" David raised his eyebrows sharply.

The three of them nodded. "Yes, Lin, we are playing?" Daniel tried to grab Alina's hand, help her, and pretend to be nice to Alina.

David glared at Daniel's hand, which was trying to touch Alina.

"Don't touch him!!" shrieked David.

She was making Daniel stop her for a moment. David stepped closer to them, followed by his bodyguards.

Scared Daniel and his friends.

"Come on, Alina, you stand up, hurry!" David ordered Alina as he held out his hand. He stared sharply at Alina, who didn't take David's hand.

"F-fine." Alina nodded, then grabbed David's outstretched hand.

David pulled Alina to stand behind him. David's treatment of Alina and his big boss mentioning Alina's name surprised the three men.

"If you guys want to play and joke around, do it with my bodyguard!!" David ordered his guards to come forward and confront the three men and invite them to play.

David's steps were not disturbed when the three men's voices shouted. Alina had looked at those who were being invited to play by David's bodyguards.

David's bodyguards vigorously beat and even kicked the three men.

Alina didn't say a word when David pulled her hand away from there; she followed David's footsteps, where he took her.

While Dominic faithfully followed them from behind with a face that was as cold and flat as David.

Alina was afraid of the cold aura emitted by the two men. I don't know; it managed to make Alina's hairs grow.

Alina looked up at the twinkling stars in the sky. So many celebrities are twinkling up there.

Were you there? In that faraway place? I don't know where the distant site is, but Alina is sure that now her parents are calm in heaven.

How happy she was when her parents were still around. Her mother taught her to cook; her father sometimes took her to town while working. I hope this memory will never fade. Alina gripped the railing of the veranda and closed her eyes.

She prayed in her heart that her parents would be happy with God. She slowly opened his eyes and smiled again.

After a few minutes, Alina turned her body, intending to enter the room, because it seemed the wind had blown too much from the sea. But what a surprise he saw his boss standing behind him by the porch door and in a position facing him now.

David looked at him with a cold and sharp gaze. With both hands, he put them in the pockets of his trousers.

"I want to take a shower; get ready!!" his words were no less cold than his face, leaving Alina, who was still transfixed on the veranda.

Yes, now Alina has to prepare everything David needs. She will be her boss' assistant. And everything that David ordered was by the agreement she had signed.