Mr Billionaires Secret Baby

Chapter 79

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Red. Hot. Rage.

| paced the length of not just my office but even the boundary that marked Lucy’s desk several times in the past half an hour. Sitting down only made me fidget and pacing seemed to be the only effective way and releasing some emotion as it kept filling up.

“Who the hell does he even think he is trying to command my employees and take over my company?” | muttered to myself in fury.

Dante was determined and that alone had been making me feel on edge more than | have ever been before. Nothing about his demeanor earlier told me that he was just being difficult. The Dante | saw this morning in the boardroom was one that was back at playing his twisted games with no

mercy.

“He just disappeared for almost a week and then he comes back with so much of male ego and arrogance!” Lucy, who hadn't minded me at all and turned a deaf ear and a blind eye to my current state, gasped.

| paused for the first time since | began pacing and looked at her. Lucy had her face dug in to her phone as her eye balls moved from side to side as she read or inspected what ever the hell had been shocking enough that it had caused her to gasp. “What?” | asked in a sharp voice.

Lucy didn’t care at all but she did look up at me from her phone. She held the screen closer to her so | couldn’t take a peak and she looked at me carefully.

“| think the reason Mr Crawford disappeared has been revealed.” She said with a small smirk and |

knew that smirk all too well.

It was her signature smirk when she came across any gossip or had some thing scandalous to share. I’ve seen that look previously and countless times before in her obsession with the elite and rich men that looked like S*x on legs.

“And that would be?” | prompted impatiently hating the suspense.

She turned her phone to me, holding it in my face in one swift move. | focussed my eyes as | tried to figure out what | was looking at until it had hit me. It was a picture of Dante leaving some fancy looking building with a very pretty woman by his side. There had been two images and the second one showed him dining at a Michelin star restaurant with the very same woman. “No one knows who she is but the article suggests that it’s his lastest female conquest.” Lucy provided me further context and an emotion | hated to feel welled up in me at such an exhilarated pace, that | felt a little sick.

Who was that woman that he disappeared nearly a week for? Was he with her all these days? Why was she so pretty? Did Dante finally give up and move on? Is that the reason he had been so harsh this morning and back with such a vengeance?

It had to be the reason for him to have pulled such a move this morning. He no longer cared aboutThis content © Nôv/elDr(a)m/a.Org.

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what | thought of him and he was now taking advantage of that freedom.

“This is terrible.” | whispered to myself but Lucy heard me.

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“| don’t think so. He deserves someone better than his ex- fiance.” Lucy mentioned with distaste and | tried not to think of who she had been refering to since the last image | have of her in my mind was far from being a pleasant one.

| shot Lucy a sharp glare and she grimaced before taking her phone back and settling in to her chair behind her desk again. My jaw clenched tightly as the ugly emotion surfaced in the base of my stomach. It wasn’t like | wanted to be jealous but it was more like | couldn’t help myself from feeling such a thing. It was only natural, wasn’t it?

| was the one who said | didn’t want him any more. | had decided it and managed to stay firm on it but | didn’t imagine seeing him actually moving on with someone would have such an effect on

me.

| realised then that perhaps | didn’t want to let go of Dante entirely but it was more so that | had wanted him to fight for me, that I wanted him to prove himself worthy of me after such a long time of making me feel otherwise.

But it was good. Maybe this was what needed to happen for me to get over him entirely. If he could move on then so could I, right? It wouldn’t be too hard to do since his new relationship was proof of a dead end to any thing that might have been again between us.

| shook these thoughts and any related to how | felt out of my head and looked to Lucy. She had still been obsessing over this new fling of Dante’s and | caught her research the woman’s entire lineage.

“Lucy, please forward an email to every department not to attend or call any meetings unless | am made aware of said meeting, approved of said meeting, and have issued the notice of any upcoming meetings.” Lucy nodded but still scrolled through her article about the woman that Dante had been parading with.

“Yes, I'll get to it.” She said with her nose almost in the screen of her phone.

“Lucy, now.” | said sternly and she immediately dropped her phone to the desk and worked on it.

With her handling that, | sauntered back over to my office to try and get the companies lawyer on the line and try and see what are my options moving forward. | needed to know what | had

gotten myself in to and more importantly if | could get myself out of it with out making a complete fool of myself.

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