Anna loses her job because she decides to be decent. Lying to get herself a new job lands her into the hands of Axel Don, a billionaire CEO who hates women because of his painful past. How will she survive in a world above hers?
Anna loses her job because she decides to be decent. Lying to get herself a new job lands her into the hands of Axel Don, a billionaire CEO who hates women because of his painful past. How will she survive in a world above hers?
Anna had just been fired from her job as s waiter because she had stood up for her self.
Earlier a customer had tried to make advances towards her, she knew that most if not all the other waitresses did sleep with some of the customers for extra income but she wasn't about to do that though, so when this particular customer made advances she politely refused.
This angered the customer and he caused a scene causing the restaurant manager to rush to the scene and shamelessly the man reported how Anna had refused his advances towards her and her manager being more shameless did something she had call "The expected"
Shockingly her manager had sided with the man, though it was expecting. She knew he had hated her since she refused to be one of his s*x mates like some of her female colleagues were.
He immediately took the chance and fired her at the spot. Shocked she walked out of the VIP room and into the back office. She changed her cloth uh uhes and walked out the her restaurant through the back doors. She could hear low mumblings at her back.
Everything was like a dream she had lost her only source of income and she had bills to pay for. She could as well go live under a bridge.
Tiredly she walked to the road and flagged down a cab.
"District G pls" she said
"That would be 50"
Anna checked her bag and she had less than that.
She discharged the man and decided to walk instead.
Anna kept on thinking about how to keep paying her bills and how to find a new job. Lost in thought she walked far without realizing it.
After a minutes a car sped passed her splashing water on her
"Hey you bastard how dare you" she screamed.
She walked for about a mile and half before the rain started.
"Argh how worse could this day get" she thought while running towards shelter and standing beside a man who looked who was answering a call at a corner.
"Hey have you found one yet" she heard the man beside her say.
"What do you mean" he continued he looked like he was about to snap, he was already looking red and angry
Anna listened closely now, even trying to lean closer to the man
"We need to find a nanny as soon as possible"
"Wow a job vacancy" Anna thought, her mind running back and forth, this could be her chance she thought to herself
"I need a reply before the next thirty minutes" the man continued panting heavily after all that shouting.
Anna thought about it, she had no idea about taking care of anyone plus she didn't even know the person's age and personality, this could be a new type of scam acting like there was some job vacancy and kidnapping anybody that showed interest.
Gathering up courage she said " I don't know if it matters but I am a professional nanny" she had just lied through her teeth.
"Really that's perfect" he said
"Do you have experience " he inquired
"Well....I have worked...with different families and I have a lot of.....um a lot of experience with kids, even elderly people, yeah.
"Wow that's great your hired."
"Really" Anna couldn't believe her eyes. This was the fastest job she had gotten all her life.
"But, you start now. Is it possible?." He said
"Start now!" She had no one to go home to but it was too sudden.
"Can you do it. If you can't no problem I will look for another person." He continued
"No, it's alright" Anna said quickly
"I just need to get a few things for my self" she said politely
"You will be provided with a uniform so clothing won't be a problem and you will be given toiletries too." The man said
"Okay sir." Anna replied
"We leave now". He told her.
"Okay" she said while he made another call.
Anna looked at the man before her. She was barking orders into his phone. Cursing and swearing at a point, listening at another, he reminded her of father before he passed. Anna's thought were broken when she heard the man saying he was waiting for a car to arrive.
Anna looked out and realized that the rain had stopped
After the call a car pulled up in front of Anna and the unknown man Anna had trusted looked at her
"Get in" he said while motioning her to the car door.
"Yes sir" she got into the car, she knew that this could be a terrible decision but she was desperate to find a job fast than thinking about the pros and cons of her present condition.
After minutes of driving, they arrived a big house. It was really large with a lot of windows. It felt as if they occupants had no privacy at all which brought chills to Anna's bones in an extremely weird way.
Luckily the house was well hid and had lots of green lush trees giving the house a nice and dark scenery.
Anna tagged behind the man and walked into the house, the interior of the house was as good as the exterior just looked empty of emotions in general it lacked a homely feeling and unnecessarily too large in her opinion but who was she to judge.
"Stand here" the man said and started walking up the stairs reaching the top and disappearing at the turn.
Anna stood there looking around the house thinking about her own home and how to pay off her bills if she got the job.
She was worried she might not reach the requirements and go back to the past life.
"Anna" she looked up and there stood the most handsome man she had ever seen stand there with a little boy who looked exactly like him.
"Is she the one?." The handsome man said looking at her harshly
For three years, Deanna endured scorn in a one-sided marriage. When Connor forced her to choose between her career and a divorce, she didn't hesitate-she walked away. Determined to reclaim her birthright, Deanna returned as the brilliant heiress to a medical conglomerate. Her ex and his family begged for another chance, but it was too late. With a tycoon father, a legendary healer mother, a CEO brother who adored her, and a showbiz powerhouse sibling, Deanna's life overflowed with power. Even her arrogant rival, heir to billions, only ever had a soft spot for her.
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Alcohol and heartbreak are definitely not a good combo.Too bad I learnt that a little too late. I'm Tessa Beckett and I painfully got dumped by my boyfriend of three years.That led me to getting drunk at a bar and having a one-night stand with a stranger.Before he would see me as a slut the next day,I paid him for the sex and deeply insulted his ability to please me. But this stranger turned out to be my new boss!
I lay paralyzed on stiff white sheets, a prisoner in my own skin, listening to the rain lash against the window like nails on a coffin. My father, Elmore Franco, didn't even look at my face as he checked his clipboard. He just listened to the steady, monotonous beep of the heart monitor-the only thing proving I was still alive. Without a hint of remorse, he pulled a pen from his pocket and signed the Do Not Resuscitate order. My stepmother, Ophelia, stepped out from behind him, wearing my favorite pearl necklace and smelling of cloying perfume. She leaned close to my ear to whisper the truth that turned my blood to ice. "It was the tea, darling. Just like your mother. A slow, tasteless poison." She chuckled as she revealed that my fiancé, Bryce, had a two-year-old son with my sister, Daniela. My inheritance had been funding their secret life for years, and now that the money was secure, I was an inconvenience they were finally scrubbing away. As my father yanked the power cord from the wall, the beeping died, and the darkness swallowed me whole. I was being murdered by my own flesh and blood, used as a bank account until I was no longer needed. I died in that sterile room, drowning in the realization that every person I ever loved was a monster who had been waiting for me to take my last breath. Then, I gasped. I woke up in a luxury hotel suite surrounded by silk sheets, five years in the past-the very morning of my wedding. Next to me lay Basile Delgado, the "Wolf of Wall Street" and my family's most dangerous enemy. In my first life, I ran from this room in a panic and lost everything. This time, I looked at the man who would eventually destroy my father's empire and decided to join him. "I'm not leaving, Basile. Marry me. Right now. Today."
Everyone in town knew Amelia had chased Jaxton for years, even etching his initials on her skin. When malicious rumors swarmed, he merely straightened his cuff links and ordered her to kneel before the woman he truly loved. Seething with realization, she slammed her engagement ring down on his desk and walked away. Not long after, she whispered "I do" to a billionaire, their wedding post crashing every feed. Panic cracked Jaxton. "She's using you to spite me," he spat. The billionaire just smiled. "Being her sword is my honor."
I was four months pregnant, weighing over two hundred pounds, and my heart was failing from experimental treatments forced on me as a child. My doctor looked at me with clinical detachment and told me I was in a death sentence: if I kept the baby, I would die, and if I tried to remove it, I would die. Desperate for a lifeline, I called my father, Francis Acosta, to tell him I was sick and pregnant. I expected a father's love, but all I got was a cold, sharp blade of a voice. "Then do it quietly," he said. "Don't embarrass Candi. Her debutante ball is coming up." He didn't just reject me; he erased me. My trust fund was frozen, and I was told I was no longer an Acosta. My fiancé, Auston, had already discarded me, calling me a "bloated whale" while he looked for a thinner, wealthier replacement. I left New York on a Greyhound bus, weeping into a bag of chips, a broken woman the world considered a mistake. I couldn't understand how my own father could tell me to die "quietly" just to save face for a party. I didn't know why I had been a lab rat for my family’s pharmaceutical ambitions, or how they could sleep at night while I was left to rot in the gray drizzle of the city. Five years later, the doors of JFK International Airport slid open. I stepped onto the marble floor in red-soled stilettos, my body lean, lethal, and carved from years of blood and sweat. I wasn't the "whale" anymore; I was a ghost coming back to haunt them. With my daughter by my side and a medical reputation that terrified the global elite, I was ready to dismantle the Acosta empire piece by piece. "Tell Francis to wash his neck," I whispered to the skyline. "I'm home."
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