Roderick was thinking hard.
She now understood why Giselle said those words to him. He smiled to himself. All his life, Giselle was the only one who had the courage to say those kind of things.
"Lunatic?" He asked no one in particular.
He was amazed.
And for a slight moment, he wished everyone else was as honest as Julian and Giselle. And he hoped he could know more about Giselle girl.
He knew he was a bit interested in her. But now, it increased. He made up his mind that he would try to win her over. But it wouldn't be easy.
He knew Giselle hated him so much now.
Even if he wanted to make her like him, he didn't think about being in LOVE with Giselle.
He thought the word love was too big to describe what he felt now.
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Giselle stayed a long time at the office.
She told Olivia to go home but she didn't agree. She wanted to be with Giselle.
She said the work would finish quicker if she stayed and helped in the way she could.
Giselle stopped telling her to go. They were working together and we're talking about themselves as they laughed at funny stuff.
they were finally prepared to leave. Turns out working over time wasn't so bad after all.
"So you're saying I'm your only friend?"
She asked as they were exiting the premises.
"Yeah. I thought Natasha was my friend but she stopped talking to me over night. But nothing really happened"
"How cruel"
They both talked for a while and told each other good bye.
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"Where are you coming from at this time of the night?" Kimberly stood at the door looking at Giselle with those eyes.
"From work " Giselle felt very tired and didn't want to talk much. Just as she was about to walk away, Kimberly held her neck really tight making it difficult for Giselle to breathe.
"W....wh.... what a...are you...doing" Giselle tried to pull her hand away but Kimberly seemed really strong and that surprised Giselle.
"Now that your father is no longer with us doesn't mean you have the right to start sleeping around with men"
"Wha...what....are you ta..... talking about?'
"I'll kill you with my own hands if I find out that you are seeing someone. Understood?"
Giselle nodded her head because she felt like she was gonna pass out. Kimberly let her go and walked away.
Giselle was trying to catch her breath.
What was wrong with Kimberly?
Was she drunk?
Why did she say those things?
She was confused. Tears started falling.
Just almost a month since her father died and Kimberly is already showing her true colors. Giselle had known that Kimberly didn't like her but never thought she would do something as trying to kill her.
She wiped her tears and walked to her room.
It looked like Jasmine and Samuel were already sleeping but little did she know that Samuel recorded what happened.
He was displeased by what his mother had been doing to Giselle. He wanted to talk to her about but he knew she would only say or do something worse.
Giselle felt terrible. Everything that happened today made her feel pain in her heart. From what Roderick said to what Kimberly did and said.
"Scoff... Sleep around? How lame" Giselle just sat there and fell asleep. She was already very exhausted.
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Olivia couldn't stop thinking about Giselle. She felt bad for her. She tried to put herself in her shoes and she knew she would have said worse things to the CEO.
She really admired Giselle.
She was a professional at such a young age.
She worked hard and she deserved respect not insult. She promised to do the best she could to help Giselle smile more often.
Suddenly her phone rang.
"Yeah? What's popping?"
"How's work going?"
"Good, I just got back. I worked over time."
"My girl is growing. I see "
"Yeah. Remember the girl I told you about?"
"Yeah, the Giselle one."
"She is really nice"
"Looks like she doesn't bully you "
"Oh no she does not bully me at all. I like her. The she is, her personality. She just a role model."
"Someone you only met a few times" Astrid sounded sour
"Are you jealous?"
"....."
"No one can take your place okay?" Olivia and Astrid talked for a long time before finally, the call ended.
Olivia felt like her life was finally starting to get meaningful. She smiled at her thought and shook her. If only her father let her out earlier. Maybe she wouldn't have done a lot of things.
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Giselle tried her best to wake up as early as possible. She didn't want to be late, especially now that she had to make up for the days she missed. She walked to the living room and found Kimberly on the couch. It looked like the others were not at home.
Since after the funeral, Jasmine and Samuel were not always at home and it bothered her. She wanted to call and talk to them but time wasn't always on her side.
"Where do you think you are going?" Kimberly spoke as she saw Giselle walk out of the house.
"To work?" Giselle tried her best to not sound rude. She did want the episode two of what happened last night.
"At this time of the day, huh? Since when did you become so punctual?" Kimberly walked up to her .
"I have a lot of work to do today." She simply answered.
"Scoff..... Really? You're seeing someone right?"
"What's with the seeing someone you've been talking about? Don't I have the right to go to work early and come back late?"
Giselle voiced out.
"So now that your father is dead, you think you can talk back at me however you want, right? I will kill you if you try to act smart with me." Kimberly was surely testing Giselle's patience. Just because Giselle never said anything before doesn't mean she was afraid of Kimberly. This woman was really crossing the line.
Giselle decided to walk away without saying anything but Kimberly grabbed her and bang... She gave Giselle a really hot slap leaving a mark on her face.
Giselle was speechless. She didn't know how to react. Kimberly slapped her for the first time.
Giselle held her tears in. She looked at Kimberly with hate in her eyes before she walked out. Unknown to her that her face was so red.
Giselle noticed that all the cars were no where to be seen but she didn't even worry or think about that.
She went to work that morning and only few people were there she walked straight to her department with haste and hit something hard. Like a pillar. She lifted her head to look up and was startled to see the the great CEO she bowed her head and whispered "I'm sorry" before she ran inside the office.
It looked like Roderick noticed something...,.